Hey, friend!

I'm about to be a married man. 😳 (And she's filming her first feature film right now, so I'm about to married to a freaking movie star, y'all...)

I'm about to take the longest vacation I've ever taken away from work. 😳 

I'm about to visit a new continent. 😳 (Asia–our honeymoon is to Thailand)

I'm about to start writing some conference talks and start on another video project for this year. 😳

This. Year. Is. Looking. So. Freaking. Great.

What Else?

• Did you know that you can add one line to your GitHub Actions workflows that will let you run them directly from the GitHub web interface? Add `workflow_dispatch:` to your `on:` property and you'll get this "Run workflow" button for your workflow. Very helpful for testing! (Tweet with screenshot)
• This is why having ADHD turns out to be a superpower as a manager. I'm the best context switcher I know, & it's served me *incredibly* well first as a manager & now as a CEO. I jump from convos about code to project & account management to HR to swag to finances to marketing... (Tweet with repost)
• Recently @taylorotwell asked whether PHPUnit or @pestphpshould be @laravelphp’s default test runner. Most folks associate Pest w/its Jest-style syntax, but it’s also fantastic for running PHPUnit class-based tests, too! I made a quick video explaining: (Tweet with video)

• So, I'm testing http://suggest.gg out for the @LaravelPodcast. If you have any topics you'd like to request we talk about on the podcast, let us know here; also, you can check out others' ideas and vote on them! (Tweet)

That's it for now!

Until next time...

Your friend,
Matt Stauffer