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Matt Stauffer
@mattstauffer
CEO @tightenco. Host @pragmaticaifm, @LaravelPodcast, & @businesslaravel. Wife guy to 💍 @ImaniVJones. “Worst twerker ever, best Dad ever" –My daughter
Atlanta, GA
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Nov 19, 2025
    That makes 2 new Laracasts series this year: - *Learn Laravel Forge*, getting you 100% up to speed on all the new features in the next generation of Laravel Forge - *How to Build a Dev Team*, a free series for CTOs, tech leads, founders, & anyone else building/running a dev team
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Apr 2, 2020
    This is your regular reminder that macOS has built-in bulk file renaming and it's insanely simple to use. 🙌🍎
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Feb 2, 2018
    Big follower count != good programmer Conference speaker != good programmer Big words != good programmer Blogger/author != good programmer Brand ™ != good programmer Being Old != good programmer Being Young != good programmer
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Sep 17, 2023
    She said yes!!! 😳😱🤯🎉🤩✨💍👰🏾🤵🏻‍♂️
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    Imani Vaughn-Jones ✨️
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    Sep 17, 2023
    So this is what makes life divine
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Mar 30, 2021
    ⏰PHP devs! Today's the 30th day in a month when the prev month has 28 days. Have you checked your `$carbon->subMonths(1)` calls lately? They might not be doing what you expect. 🔥Carbon Tip: subMonths overflows "February 30th" so you end up w/March 2. Use subMonthsNoOverflow!
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Apr 18, 2019
    HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #laravelupandrunning
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Mar 14, 2022
    I've spent every evening for the last week reviewing & re-working a huge @laravelphp Valet pull request that adds a really cool feature: You'll be able to "isolate" any given site to be served by a specific version of PHP, regardless of Valet's global PHP version. Coming soon!
    A terminal in the "~/Sites/symposium" directory running the command "valet isolate php@8.0" and seeing the results "Updating PHP configuration for php@8.0... / Restrating php@8.0 / Restarting nginx... ] The site [symposium.test] is now using php@8.0"
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Sep 4, 2018
    After some code review talking about “Logout” vs “Log out” I realized I’ve always just had to go w/my gut, but never had a strong rule for “Login”, “Logout”, “Signup”, and other often-buttoned-compound words. But no longer! Short answer: in UI elements, use 2 words almost always
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Feb 5, 2020
    I spent the last week writing 4,285 words about getting your *perfect* office webcam, lights, and audio set up, whether you're a remote worker, podcaster, streamer, or YouTuber. Check it out, and let me know what I missed! mattstauffer.com/blog/setting-u…
    A screenshot of the top of a blog post titled "Setting up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming"
    A screenshot of part of a blog post showing the text "If you really want to nerd out, you can play around with your background. I added some Lifx z lights behind my couch and a Lifx color bulb in my lamp:", and then a picture of the author with purple lights behind him.
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Jan 12, 2018
    Today I learned macOS has a built-in bulk file renamer (!!); just select all the files, right click, “Rename”, and then describe the modification pattern. 🖥🤖💥
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Aug 10, 2018
    My son is starting kindergarten next week. He also had his first active shooter training at school next week. So much joy and excitement mixed with so much ... awfulness.
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Aug 28, 2024
    “I learned that, when everything else is against me, if I have time and determination, I can do anything.” - @ThePrimeagen
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Oct 25, 2019
    One of my favorite patterns I learned from @laravelphp is helpers where, if you pass the key, you get the value back for that key, but if you pass an associative array, it writes the key/value instead. And if you pass nothing, you get the backing service. So clean & efficient! 🤖
    A screenshot of a function definition for the described helper
    A screenshot showing the function in use--examples of setting, getting, and getting the service
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    Matt Stauffer
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    Aug 14, 2014
    I wrote a blog post about why I think most of White Twitter, and Facebook, and media, are silent about #Ferguson. blog.mattstauffer.org/182/first-they…