working as a senior laravel developer in 2026
AI is reshaping my workflow as a Laravel developer and kicking off a very fast learning sprint of my career
blog posts
a blog by david hallin about programming, and learning new things
using regular expressions (REGEX) with mysql queries
I walk through a few common data cleanup regex patterns for mysql
how to run a script when you open terminal
make terminal greet you on login
making timr
The what and why for building timr - an open source time tracking tool built with Laravel Zero
back to the pixel
after 2 weeks with the flip phone I moved back to my pixel
upgrading to a "smart-er" phone
going back to basics with an old-school flip-phone for a while
bash mission log
I released a new little bash tool to remind me of my daily goals every time I open my terminal
learning flutter after using tall stack
learning flutter after using the tall stack for a while now (tailwind, alpine js, laravel, livewire
🖊️ my new rule for writing dev blogs
a rule to follow when writing a dev blog post
creating a worklog
what is it? why am i doing it? what do i hope to get from it?
Switching this site to Hugo
I'm moving my blog from Jigsaw over to Hugo
a re-usable, sharable, committable Honeybadger post-deployment script
If you use honeybadger, and want to track deployments, this script is for you.
New opensource project- Alpine Transitions Previewer
a single page Alpine.js web app which allows you to preview & tweak Alpine.js transitions in real time
Testing Upsert vs update case statements in Laravel & MySql
After my last post, I decided to test another idea that came out of conversation about it.
using Model::Upsert in laravel 8
a super interesting way to run a single query, which updates many records in a database
the weather zsh terminal function
get a weather report in terminal
what i use
inspired by other developers "my setup" pages
Introduction to Youtube Channel
This is an introduction you my youtube channel
New Update to Open Source Repository - Manny
I added a new feature to Manny, as well as changed the functionality a bit of the strip function
Easy Tailwindcss Buttons
Easy Button Templates for TailwindCss