Ralph Schindler (@ralphschindler) profile picture

PHP, Laravel, Principal Engineer @ZiffDavis, Father, Husband.

New Orleans, LA
Joined February 2008
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God, grant me the clarity to accept the problems AI confidently solves, the patience to fix the ones it confidently breaks, and the wisdom to know when I should have written it myself. #FirstDayBackIn2026 #SoftwareEngineering
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Shipped vanilla PHP / index.php / @levelsio mode on Laravel Cloud today btw.
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Hello Bahston! Got the Irish bar Guinness and a Lobster Roll out the way, time for #laracon and its festivities!
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Only Typescript can take 40 character long curl cli api example and express it as dozens of files and 2000 lines of code.
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If you're using rdkafka for php, I would appreciate you giving the 7.x alpha a try. 
The issue backlog has been pared down (35 to 2), and all outstanding PRs have been merged (except 1 big one)... 
Available via pecl or pie. github.com/php-rdkafka/php-r…
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8.5 years into this espresso machine, and we've had 2 close calls. 1st was remedied by replacing the grinder. Then had to do deep surgery to clear out a blocked tube from heater to milk/water steamer... Successful surgery and now onward to espresso 10,000 #delonghi #espresso
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New in 2026: AI orchestration apps are the new TODO apps. Seems like everyone is writing one. All very different- not many similar approaches, massively different perspectives.. Everyone wants to get to gas town in their own vehicle on their own highway.
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For the first time in my life, I built a complete enough project ready to ship and I have yet to buy, or even think about a good domain name for it. Wild time to be a developer.
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Something I've been saying for almost as long as I've been using Laravel (~10 years): Prescriptions > Patterns Patterns alone will guide to you infinitely different (arguably still "right") solutions. Prescriptions lead to finitely variable / idiomatic solutions.
Replying to @jeffrey_way
And I’m not trying to shill for traditional monolith frameworks like Laravel and Rails, but I do wonder if it’s the conventions and structure that makes all the difference.
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looking back, the choice to go with a conventional framework seems to be paying dividends in this new agentic coding age
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth… Fascinating to think I came into the workforce at the end of the 3rd revolution (late 90's) not realizing or caring what major societal/work shifts were already underway...
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I'm full aware of the current one... And since timelines between revolutions appear to be shortening, I wonder if I'll be around for the 5th...🤔
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Ngl, hard day of work today... for Claude... in fact he’s still working.
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🧮 I use Numi.app so much I found myself needing something like it in a php/filament app. Weekend project released (really for preview): github.com/ralphschindler/ca… It's good at the dsl & basics, but will be adding better currency, financial, scientific, units, etc
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Spent a hour or so with LLPhant, it is good php software. Polished modern libraries like this that learn from and rival their python/node counterparts are important and necessary to keeping php a thriving ecosystem. github.com/theodo-group/LLPh…
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🧙A Full Stack framework is one that alone can take data at rest and turn it into an end user experience. That's pretty much it. Tons of nuance? Of course. And, some frameworks do it better than others.. but if it isn't doing that, it's just not Full Stack. Fire away 😅
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Please watch, and support Ryan in any ways that you can.
So.... I have incurable brain cancer and I'm asking for your love & support 💖
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Even for a pretty basic internal application- this kind of automated (@laravelshift) deletion of now unnecessary application layer code (Laravel 11) is pretty awesome. In this case, less code = higher quality.
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Best float of the night! @snowlikejonn IYKYK RYB HTM LATMFH
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