gal.jakic.dev
@gal.jakic.dev
Product & Project Manager @ Acenta. 3x Paralympian. Founder @ We Wow Web. Blogging at https://gal.jakic.dev/ Dad to an awesome human being called Leo.
For close to 10 years, my company has operated with a website that looked exactly like the screenshot below. For a mostly solo developer, operating in the IT space and mostly receiving word of mouth client recommendations, I sometimes wonder how we managed to survive. 😅 New website incoming... 🤓
@alharlamov.bsky.social prebral v šusu, v dveh dneh - predvsem zato, ker jo je težko odložiti, delno pa zato, ker je čakalna vrsta v familiji dolga že za 3 ali 4. Skratka, nadsuper. 🖖🏻
Why do we have JPG and JPEG, but only PNG and no PNEG?! Might have to solve this tonight with Fable 5… 🙄 /sarcasm-off
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Love Anthropic & use Claude daily, but denying access to Fable for non‑US paying users means Claude joins ChatGPT on my "should replace" list. This move will only drive more people to abandon US models in favour of Chinese alternatives. Great blog by @mitsuhiko.at, you & your LLM should read it.
Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 2mo agoWhen I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/am...
Been dreaming of this for a while now and now it’s here! My favorite frameworks now overlap! ✌🏻❤️
Joe Tannenbaum@joe.codes · 6mo agoWelcome to the party, @svelte.dev New starter kit just dropped: Laravel + Svelte + Inertia
I'm not even remotely a senior developer, but I definitely had a senior moment right now... ... that's gotta count for something.
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Switched from node to Bun recently and I'm loving the experience. Updating a binary version with one command may just be near the top of the list. 😍
Recently acquired a Echolens - one of these digital disposable camera clones that are a little more eco-friendly, but still don’t allow you to pixel peep before your 52 shot roll is up - so that I can document the life a little more frequently and have less “I hate photo editing” excuses…
Vibe coded a basic @svelte.dev app which displays the NFL playoff picture, since it's soon to be Wednesday in Europe and the official #NFL Playoff picture page still displays the playoff standings as of last week. 🫠 Maybe I should slap a "playoff probability by next nextGen stats" at the top. 🤔
Had a blast at the Ljubljana @laravel.com Meetup, hosted in the Agiledrop offices tonight. Good talks, good crowd, good code. Laravel forever. P.S. Thanks for the great company, as always @ales.reepolee.com
The tragic reality of being a parent: all of your precious little free time comes when you are too tired to do anything with it.
Recently, I've been playing with the idea of porting @laravel.com's Eloquent ORM to the Javascript ecosystem. Probably spent way too many side-hustle hours on this one, but we made it to the "Houston, we have a rough prototype" phase. It makes @svelte.dev's remote functions shine even brighter! 😎
Next week I’m travelling to Zürich, but sadly I’m leaving a day before the @laravel.swiss meetup 🫠 Still, if any Laravel dev in the area wants to grab a cup of coffee on Tuesday or Thursday afternoon & talk code, life, … shoot a Bluesky butterfly (or whatever we call that around here) my way. ✌🏻🇨🇭🤙🏻
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Ok, this is turning out to be a pretty good Friday, so maybe I can share the story from the high (green) grass of @laravel.com development. I was recently asked to create a simple B2B app that, in the simplest terms, allows the stakeholders to manage and download PDF files. (1/6)
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Here’s a public service announcement: if you bought a domain for your open source project that will eventually house the documentation, but it doesn’t yet… please please PLEASE don’t show it on your github repo and link it to the same github repo. 🤨
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@mrmacintosh.bsky.social hey, sorry to bug you on Bluesky, just wanted to check if there’s an email where I can report a security concern to the OpenCore Legacy patcher team 😅. Thanks!
Despite being in tech for decades at this point, I still get a kick out of the tiniest of things, but most of all "the janitorial commits" to open source software. Found two of these gems out in the high grass today and couldn't walk past them. github.com/instantdb/in...
Remove duplicated db.ts by morpheus7CS · Pull Request #1604 · instantdb/instant
Hey, I just started a new vanilla JS project with Instant and noticed that out of the box, there is a duplicated db.ts file that doesn't appear to be linked anywhere. I would also love to say t...
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Read this post by The Daily Coach today and realized I needed to give myself a long and hard kick in the butt today. Had the kick been a field goal attempt, it likely would have been a 70-yarder. 😅 www.thedaily.coach/p/a-new-day-...
A New Day: Bear Bryant’s Daily Lesson in Growth
By starting each day as a new day, with gratitude and freedom from burdens, we begin the journey toward growth.
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@freek.bsky.social hey, this may be a long question for 🦋, but can you offer some insight into how you see the @spatie.be laravel-livewire-wizard’s future, with Livewire 4 now primarily switching to a Volt-like syntax? Thanks!
I can neither confirm nor deny that every time I make a task-list-like form in an app, I test it with Adele lyrics. 😅
As we have come to expect with @johnrudolphdrexler.com, he has set and cleared a high (trust) bar with this talk at Laracon US. Great job. (The witch then doth retreat back into the cave.)
John Rudolph Drexler@johnrudolphdrexler.com · 12mo agoMy new talk is up! 5 practical things developers can do to build trust with their non-technical bosses. In the high trust environment you have less micromanagement and conflict, and more freedom and harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zki4...
Happy to say, you can soon run php artisan make:volt folder.component and it will work as expected. @laravel.com forever 🔥
gal.jakic.dev@gal.jakic.dev · last yr.So, today I sat down and made another “signature” PR to @laravel.com’s Livewire Volt. It’s what I call a “janitorial PR” - that crack that’s bugging you until you fix it - even if it’s only you who sees it. As a reminder to never stop going back and giving back. github.com/livewire/vol... (3/3)
Had some twists and turns in the past few weeks. Time to go back to the lesson I learned in my Para Alpine Skiing days: when it doesn’t work, go back. In ski racing, that meant no skiing through gates, just freeskiing, making turns and finding the joy in everything being simple again. (1/3)
Tested @svelte.dev’s experimental async and remote function call features these past few days, with some very simple use cases. Complexity of learning to do things “the SvelteKit way” has been lowered dramatically, while maintaining the high DX bar. Great update! 🫶🏻 github.com/sveltejs/kit...
Remote Functions · sveltejs kit · Discussion #13897
The RFC was tweaked, see #13897 (comment) for a list of changes tl;dr Remote functions are a new concept in SvelteKit that allow you to declare functions inside a .remote.ts file, import them insid...
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After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.
Meet the Google engineer making Maps more accessible
After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.
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