Hey, friend!

It's summer, around here! Kids are done with school, and I was steeling myself for months and months of wildness until I looked up and realized... their school starts again seven weeks from today. That's actually not that much.

We're going to attempt a trip to see my family. 11 hours (without stops), 730 miles, just me and my two kids in a truck on the interstate. 😳 This will be fun!

But no matter how nervous I am about that trip, I'm most excited about the world becoming a little bit more normal again. I flew to Chicago to spend time with Dan (my business partner) and his family. Flew to Connecticut to spend time with Dave, our head of client services. Going out with friends to restaurants. My kids aren't vaccinated, so it's not life-as-usual yet, but this is still a level of freedom I definitely didn't expect to see so soon.

It feels like letting out a little bit of a collective breath. Almost like when Trump lost. There's so much anxiety we've all been holding over these last few years. Just ask anyone who's a therapist; they'll tell you most of their clients are going through it.

I stumbled across the image above and it's felt very much like what life has been for many of us lately.

(The image is from theawkwardyeti.com and you can find it on Twitter)

So. May you, in a place where it's summer or not, see life return a little bit back to normal. May your stress relent a little, your trauma be healed, your anxiety be lessened. May we all get to breathe a bit more.

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• File watching with chokidar — Sebastian De Deyne
• Back the func off, this is my abstraction!
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• Say Hello to the Inertia Head Component | Laravel News
• No, Utility Classes Aren't the Same As Inline Styles | frontstuff
• Dealing with the n+1 problem in Laravel - YouTube
• JSON API Error Responses in Laravel with Httpable Exceptions – Jess Archer

Popular Tweets

• Every family has that totally unhinged uncle. In white families he’s usually racist & misogynist & often a few other ist’s. Funny that, in the software industry, we have one too, but dude literally *appointed* himself uncle? Of his own volition? Like a self fulfilling prophecy?

• If anyone wants to pull a pretty easy open source Laravel/Tailwind/Vue task, I just opened a small UI tweak issue on Gistlog:

• After my last newsletter, a few folks out sharing that they've been through divorce recently; one was just a few weeks before. Here's what I wrote back, in case it's helpful to anyone else.

• I *strongly* suggest anyone in your 30s/40s who hasn't seen a therapist at least try it--ESPECIALLY if you have depression, anxiety, any "disorders" like ADHD/ASD, or if you've had a hard time at all this past year. Don't know how to find one? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kal4H4ceTNw… /@mijustin

• I shared some old, big news in my monthly newsletter that came out this past Friday. If you have been wondering what my "my life is a tornado" tweet was from about a year ago, this is it. http://createsend.com/t/d-782CA8E6110B07062540EF23F30FEDED… Hard & awkward to share, but glad it's out there.
• Even better: we had both! We were taught about how relationships were *supposed* to be by Josh Harris who was like 16yo, & that was: Don't date; just find the person God wants you to marry & then "date" & marry them. I'm 36 & have basically never dated in my life.
• I've always wanted an easy way to say "show me only the routes matching this pattern", and I love how this package makes your route list look, so I PR'ed a quick syntax: php artisan route:pretty --only-path=pattern You already could exclude matching paths, too. Love it!

   

That's it for now!

Until next time...

Your friend,
Matt Stauffer