Mitchell McKenna

The Laravel Idea Plugin is Now Free for PhpStorm Users | The PhpStorm Blog Starting July 30, 2025, we’re making Laravel Idea free for PhpStorm users. If you have the Laravel Idea plugin installed, you get full access to all plugin features at no extra cost.

Laravel Idea plugin is now free, that's pretty dope @jetbrains.com! blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...

Vite is switching to a rust-based bundler and they're seeing 16x faster build times everywhere 🦀 voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

Welp, guess I’m done “programming” for the day. See you guys on Monday!

Jetbrains also released Junie, a coding agent (plan multiple tasks, do multiple llm calls, run terminal commands): www.jetbrains.com/junie/

YouTube video by IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE Get Started with AI Assistant in IntelliJ IDEA

my fellow Jetbrains IDE users, we finally got `edit mode` for AI Assistant where it actually edits the files and you just click "accept" like Cursor/etc youtu.be/zMSmhKDajKQ?...

Important 2025 Plex Updates Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

Plex "remote playback" not free anymore. Anyone use Jellyfin or Kyoo or something else? www.plex.tv/blog/importa...

In #rust cargo.toml the caret (^) is actually implied by default, and thus unnecessary to add.
e.g. these are equivalent:
tokio = "1.37.0"
tokio = "^1.37.0"
Very semvar-purist, I like it!

@jeddjedd.bsky.social welp, I finally accidentally opened your gift in #pokemongo 🙈, well we’re now Best Friends!

YouTube video by Developers Digest OpenAI's Deep Research Agent in 8 Minutes

OpenAI releases Deep Research where an Agent scans the web for 5-30 minutes and compiles a report for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6W...

YouTube video by Laravel Introducing Nightwatch for Laravel | Taylor Otwell & Jess Archer Keynote at LaraconAU 2024

Laravel Nightwatch (paid) is a full-blown Datadog competitor specifically for Laravel (zero configuration), pretty impressive youtu.be/gzujJSPR2mI?...

I was kind of hoping I could sync my Bluesky 🦋 posts to Mastadon 🐘 or vice-versa, no one's got that figured out yet?

Being able to use your website url as your bsky handle is pretty dope. Easy to do too 👍

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

Surprised how many people I was following on Twitter were also on BlueSky now. This tools was handy for finding your followers: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...