Chris Arter
👨👩👧👧 Dad & Husband
💻 Software Engineer
🎨 #Laravel Artisan
🏁 Miata Enthusiast
Interests: Laravel + Product ideas + Miatas + Personal Growth
Built the text-only internet newspaper: privypost.com
I write at https://arter.dev
- Reposted by Chris ArterPublish your sites directly from Figma! Let AI write your blog posts! Vibe code your authentication layer! Eat protein paste instead of food! Stop showering and shit your pants! 🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!
- a real 10x dev:
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- Does anyone have strong opinions on the Laravel Modules pattern? Has it worked well for you? What pain points did you discover?
- hawt dog 🌭 PocketBase is a sqlite backed supabase alternative that JustWorks™. I have it running on my home server behind a Cloudflare tunnel. With this + Cloudflare pages, I can now run my ecomm site for $0 / month. No subscriptions 🤩 pocketbase.io
- 4 months of work deploying to 19 million users. See ya'll on the other side 🫡
- Got some slick subdomains set up for my homelab! This photo share from photos.arter .dev sub domain running from a server tucked away in my living room 😅 (Now I just need to get a router with VLAN) photos.arter.dev/share/6VWzXg...
- Opening a Laravel project after working in NextJs all day.
- Whatever skill you think AI is enhancing, it's actually *replacing*.
- Oops. How'd that get in there?
- All Fridays matter.
- A few squads at work that are tasked with doing AI dev tool exploration. The convos in that channel are exhausting. They tool hop on nearly a monthly basis. Sometimes I interject with things like, "remember, these tools are ultimately means to the end of being better engineers." response
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- I've taken about 3 days off in 7 months. Follow me for more mental health tips 😵💫
- Well, I've moved my first client Statamic site off of Laravel Cloud and onto Forge. Takeaways: 1. I still am very green to Statamic and probably the main issue. 2. No obvious way to migrate assets from local to LC's S3 3. Statamic to eloquent import on LC Postgres was brittle
- .NET has had ORMs figured out for decades. Taylor Otwell built Eloquent in a cave out of spare parts. How are ORMs in Node still such a shit show?
- 20+ engineers let go today. I was not among them, but my stomach has been in knots all day.
