Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

Developer extraordinaire who loves all things Laravel and Ballroom Dance. Spanish Fork, Utah Joined June 2011

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

a week ago

@OtherworldJamie There are new variations of this now. My daughter has one that we play with occasionally.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

4 weeks ago

@laravelphp @joedixon @dgarbs51_ I was registered for this and then a bunch of stuff came up at work while it was going on. Are you going to post a recording of it?

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

a month ago

@OtherworldJamie @GHHILL1911 That is so true @OtherworldJamie! There are so many things I miss about Oregon but the crap they're doing in Salem prevents me even thinking about moving back.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

2 months ago

@OtherworldJamie They just need to get the greedy rich people to pay for it all. They're so rich, they can just pay for everything!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

2 months ago

@nicoritschel @aarondfrancis It's not free if you're using their AI tools.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

3 months ago

@wendell_adriel @taylorotwell Nice! Glad to hear that experience was improved on!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

5 months ago

@laracasts Hey just wanted to let you know that there's an issue with the video on laracasts.com/series/how-to-….

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Matt Shumer @mattshumer_

5 months ago

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

6 months ago

@PovilasKorop I think the idea is that once the component gets big enough that it becomes an issue, you can convert it to the multi file option.

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A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI. When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this. When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term. Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while. As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

8 months ago

@espn Stop trying to force people onto your crappy streaming service and make a deal with @YouTubeTV already! This is ridiculous!!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

8 months ago

@YouTubeTV You need to figure out this crap with Disney THIS week or you're going to lose a lot of subscribers!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

9 months ago

@2Sticks1Nation @cameronmoll @BednarDavidA I have those same shoes and love them!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

9 months ago

@laracasts @mattstauffer @TightenCo I'm hoping to become a dev team lead very soon, so I am very much looking forward to this!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

9 months ago

@SynchroM @LiamHammett @laravelphp If you're doing that in the config file, that's not going to help with the PHPStan issue because it doesn't know that the config you're pulling has been casted.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

10 months ago

@LaravelLivewire So sorry I'm going to miss this but my son is due on the 29th so my wife would kill me! 😁 If at all possible please record the talks to post on YouTube.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

10 months ago

@laravel_idea I would say either let the user choose or default to app/Trait but allow the user to customize the default if they want to put them somewhere else. Sometimes people put the traits in different places depending on the trait so there should be a way to change it during creation.

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

10 months ago

@adamwathan My keyboard has feet that actually elevate the front of it instead of the back and it has a padded area to rest your wrists on so I rest them on that. It took some getting used to but I love it now!

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Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek

10 months ago

@BYU If you don't know yet what your major is make sure to find the right one that has actual value in the market and do that as fast as possible. If you're not sure if it has value, look into who's looking for graduates of the major. Don't go off what the advisor for the major says.