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Marty Friedel

@marty.friedel.au

Statamic/Laravel web developer, speaker, video gamer, landscape photographer, Lego lover and Les Mills group fitness instructor in Adelaide 🇦🇺. Head Code Monkey at Mity Digital. Cat dad.

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 2mo ago

November is a superb time to visit Brisbane - especially to hear me talk about High Performance Statamic at @laracon.au. Check out more details, and the full schedule, PLUS early bird tickets: laracon.au/talks/high-p... @statamic.com

Laracon AU 2026 - Marty Friedel - High Performance Statamic

Statamic's flat-file architecture makes it an attractive choice for content-heavy applications, but as a site grows, so do the challenges of performance, deployment, and scale. Built on Laravel, Stata...

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 3mo ago

Have you used the Dictionary fieldtype in @statamic.com yet? What about using it in your site's front end forms? It is incredibly powerful and frightfully easy. www.martyfriedel.com/blog/using-t...

Using the Dictionary fieldtype in your Statamic front end forms

The Dictionary is a superb fieldtype in Statamic that can provide data-based single and multi select fields for your users: and out of the box includes Dictionaries like Countries, Locales and Timezon...

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 3mo ago

A client's @statamic.com site is expanding to new languages. Given its complex structure and number of Collections, I wrote a command that creates localisations across the site, making it ready for the translators to work through. And when they add a new language, we simply run the command again.

Screenshot of a Laravel prompt that is creating a new localisation of a site in Statamic
Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 4mo ago

Last Thursday, Claude Code used my entire daily allocation just thinking - with zero lines of code produced. But I got work done, because, well, I'm a developer. So I developed. AI may be a great co-pilot, but your skills are the safety net. Keep them sharp. www.martyfriedel.com/blog/ai-froz...

AI froze, and I coded: why developer experience matters

Whether you like it or not, AI is here. And you’ve probably noticed: it seems to pop up in every app and subscription these days.

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 4mo ago

I've made a number of purchases from imusic.au, based out of Denmark, but sold in Australian dollars. Their customer service is second-to-none, including when I pick up the phone to speak to someone in Denmark. Friendly, efficient, and incredibly helpful. More businesses need to be like imusic.au.

Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 5mo ago

This is an interesting read. laravel.com/blog/which-a... But I have a question: given the performance of Codex with these tests, why is there such a seemingly one-sided love for Claude in the community? I’ve used many… have my thoughts… but curious about why you chose and love your AI tooling?

Which AI Model Is Best for Laravel? | Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

We benchmarked 6 AI models on 17 real Laravel tasks, with and without Laravel Boost. See which model wins, which fails, and by how much.

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 5mo ago

Turns out someone is using my photo and name in a scam email about Statamic. The email address listed is some dodgy gmail email. This is not me... so please don't engage with them. No idea what I can do about it though.

Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 7mo ago

I've been teaching Les Mills classes for 18 years now, and BODYPUMP for 8 years. This week I started teaching BODYPUMP HEAVY: tempo-based weight lifting for strength and lean muscle. The best bit: the music is drivingly brilliant, especially compared to the direction of the standard BODYPUMP music.

Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 7mo ago

Hey @statamic.com devs - with v6 now in beta, and a launch coming soon, some of our addons will require a major version number bump. Iconamic, Logger, Sticky Notes, Stripe Checkout, TinyMCE Cloud and Variable Number. Others are v5/v6 compatible. Check the docs for full details: docs.mity.com.au

Documentation for Mity Digital's open source Statamic addons

We make addons for Statamic, the best flat-file CMS out there, and keeping developers happy day in and day out. Check out our addons, and find all of the documentation details right here.

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Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 7mo ago

You’ve heard of chia pudding… but what about chia jelly? Made with fruit juice instead of coconut milk. With goji berries, a diced strawberry (have you seen the size of them?), 3 blackberries, 3 raspberries, 1/3 white peach, macadamias and shaved coconut. Ace breakfast for a 42 degree day.

A chia jelly pudding with fresh berries, peach, nuts and coconut
Marty Friedel@marty.friedel.au · 7mo ago

Arts and crafts with my new IKEA MYGGBETT door sensors. These used to be white. But a can of spray paint helped me make them better blend with the sliding door frame, and still have a functioning button and LED alert.