Hey, friend!

Whew. You can look down at the rest of this email and see that I've been busy. 

So of course we're thinking about buying a broken down house in our neighborhood and fixing it up.

Oh, and I'm building our most ambitious Laracon puzzle ever. Plus a virtual watch party. And speaking at Laracon US and AU.

Did I mention I'm working on getting fit? And still very slowly depleting the mulch chip drop I get a few weeks ago as we work on re-creating our yard to be less grass-focused and more native-plants-and-vegetable-gardens focused. 

I have a mentor I meet with monthly and he always is laughing when I tell him about a new project I've started.

But the new-ness is what's fun! Right? I know there are some people who are starters and others who are finishers, but the thing is, I'm capable of finishing projects. Tighten's been running for over 15 years and I'm still having a great time! 

But yah. Starting is more fun. And life would be boring without juggling 25 things at once.

Just somehow have to tell my body that I'm choosing this life so it slows down on the insane cortisol production. Yeesh.

 

What Else?

Laravel Podcast

  • s7e24: Building the Business Side of Laravel with Tom Crary
  • s7e25: Marketing Developer Tools with Cynthia McGillis, VP of Marketing
  • s7e26: Abby Gilson on Laravel’s Events & Laracon US Boston
  • s7e27: Inside Laravel's Starter Kits with Wendell Adriel

Pragmatic AI Podcast

  • Is AI Replacing Developers or Just Changing the Job?
  • Teaching Non-Developers to Build Real Apps With AI
  • AI in Elementary Schools: A Principal’s Take
  • AI Researcher Michelle Yi on Watson, World Models, and Why AI Should Be for Everyone
  • Using AI As a Thinking Partner, Not a Vending Machine
  • Human Marketing in an AI Search World
  • Building a Self-Directed PhD With Claude AI
  • Relevance Engineering: How to Show Up in AI Search

Popular Tweets

  • Considering getting a chip drop to split between my house and a neighborhood park I maintain. This video is not at all what I expected, but it made me laugh, a lot. (Tweet w/ Video)

  • Has anyone looked at building a dumbed-down form/version/copy of Laravel Boost for use on Laravel Zero apps? (Tweet)

  • Cloud has always been a fantastic solution for our clients at Tighten. But much of the community learned in our first excited month of using Cloud that it wasn't price-effective for our side projects. So... I'm *very* excited to test out Scale to Zero! Love Forge but... (Quote Tweet)

  • We do all know the new trillionaire is the bad guy, right? Regardless of whether we think it’s possible to be an ethical billionaire, we can agree that you can judge them by their actual, really happened, actions? (Tweet)

  • Been working on this video game for months and today I finally had my niece play test something for me and yall you learn *so much* watching someone play what you built Also please excuse the mess I’m cleaning the kitchen while she plays lol (Tweet w/ photo)

  • I'm amazed at how far I am into writing this @LaraconUS  talk and I haven't *once* run into that moment of "THIS IS STUPID I AM STUPID EVERYONE WILL BE SO BORED" Hopefully that means it's EVEN BETTER than all my other talks, and not just that I'm maturing or whatever (Tweet)

That's it for now!

Until next time...

Your friend,
Matt Stauffer

 
 
 

Matt Stauffer
P.O. Box 5299
Atlanta, GA 31107

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