Hey, friend!

What a week it's been, right? Even if you're not in the U.S., I know you've seen enough of our election shenanigans to have a sense of what is going on.

I have political views. I'm sure you know this. But mine can mainly be summed up, not by a political party, but by my role model, Fred Rogers, and his entire life:

Mister Rogers' primary goal, in very simplified terms, was to care for all people and to help them feel loved and safe. That's my goal, politically. So if you ever see me re-tweeting or waxing political, just know that that's what I'm about: helping people. Making systems more just. Treating people well. Helping people thrive.

I hope we can all agree that that's a cause worth working toward, no matter our political or religious or socioeconomic background.

What else has been happening?

A few quick updates:

Takeout

We're continuing development on Takeout. I'm currently--right this moment--working on adding some cool networking-related features that will enable a lot more cool entry-level tooling in the future.

Ziggy

Tighten's open-source project Ziggy is about to tag its 1.0 release, and it was also recently included into Laravel's Jetstream, which is exciting news for us!

Jigsaw

Tighten's static site generator Jigsaw is about to update its default generator to use Tailwind instead of Vanilla Sass. 🙌🏻

Tighten store

We released a bunch of new limited-stock swag to our store! Check it out while it's still available!

What Else?

Laravel Podcast

• s4e16: Tinker, Artisan, & CLI, with Nuno Maduro
• s4e15: Testing, with Adam Wathan
• s4e14: Mix, with Jordan Pittman
• s4e13: Presets & Jetstream, with Michael Dyrynda

Tighten blog

• The Laravel Community Gathers to Provide Conference Scholarships

Tighten YouTube

• Don't Cry When Your Dev Dependencies Die - Introducing Takeout, Simple Docker Management
• Twenty Percent Time:
  • Sara Bine: Building An App With NativeScript-Vue
  • Jose Soto: Docker for Local Development
  • Marje Holmstrom-Sabo: Creating A Welcoming Remote Work Culture
  • John Bonaccorsi: Class-Based Model Factories
  • Jake Bathman: Slack Apps & Bots
  • Cenitoria Melton: Imposter Syndrome
  • Matt Stauffer: All About Hiring
  • Jake Bathman: Slack Apps & Bots
  • John Bonaccorsi: Class-Based Model Factories
  • Dan Sheetz: What Makes A Good Client/Agency Relationship?
  • Andrew Morgan: Staying Organized
  • Dave Hicking: Shaping Your Role

Popular Tweets

• Tighten projects tagged for #Hacktoberfest
• Lazy Collections in Laravel (Joseph Silber article)
• Using FieldGoal to add a "request notification when back in stock" tracker to Shopify
• Enlighten for Laravel
• Ozzie on Tighten GitHub

Links

• Adam Wathan on the React Podcast
• 3D book generator
• Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (via Marcus Moore)
• Laravel's transform helper (via David Hemphill)
• Laravel's "schedule:work" command
• Taylor's discussion of the conflicts around Jetstream
• Marcel Pociot announces Invoker 2
• DigitalOcean updates Hacktoberfest rules
• Xdebug 3.0.0beta1 released
• Composer 2.0.0 RC2 released (Stable will release in a few weeks!)
• Bash Cheat Sheet: (), {}, etc. (Via Sara Bine)
• How we open sourced docs.github.com (Via Jacob Baker-Kretzmar)
• Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering (Via Sara Bine)
• Casting JSON Columns to Value Objects with Laravel – Jess Archer
• Composer 2.0 is now available!

That's it for now!

Until next time...

Your friend,
Matt Stauffer