VP of Engineering at Converge Marketing

Joined May 2010
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Jose Soto retweeted
Feb 9
Lo รบnico mรกs poderoso que el odio, es el amor. The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. @sanbenito #AppleMusicHalftime
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Jose Soto retweeted
lex interviews the greatest figures of our time and me
13 Jan 2025
I'll be doing a podcast at the end of the month with @ThePrimeagen all about programming. He is a great programmer and hilarious human being ๐Ÿ”ฅ In general, I have a bunch of super-technical podcasts coming up on programmingโ€ฆ probably with @dhh (creator of rails), @taylorotwell (creator of laravel), @rough__sea (creator of node & deno), @rauchg (creator of next.js), @ashtom (ceo of github) and many more (sorry if I forgot people, going off the top of my head). This post is primarily about software, but in general, my goal is to celebrate great engineering and great engineers from all walks of life ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ Oh and if anyone knows how to get in touch with Linus Torvalds, let me know. Obviously, I would love to talk to him. See my profile for the link to contact me. As part of all this, here are the languages & frameworks I'm trying (for each, building something simple but sufficiently complicated to test its cool features): - rust - go - zig - elixir - next.js & vercel - laravel - rails - mojo - deno - jai - odin Also, I have to force myself to try neovim at some point ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿคฃ For context, I'm a python & c/c guy, plus php, js, sql (of all flavors) for webdev. I tend to favor focusing on building fast (and fun) vs the language/tool choice, but there is still a lot to learn from each of these technologies. Outside of the podcast, one of my goals for 2025 is to ship some code (system, service, app) that will bring value to some number of people's lives (whether I do this solo or as part of a team). This makes me happy. I love talking to people and I love programming. I've been doing a lot of the former, and this year I hope to add to that a bit of the latter too ;-) If you have questions or suggestions, for languages or for technical guests, please let me know.
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14 Nov 2024
Whenever I think I understand complex concepts of dockerization/build pipelines - I get humbled by something that should be simple.... **reverts 20 commits and 6 hours of work**
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PHP devs were just slaughtered by the Bos. I'll be over here licking my wounds.
6 Nov 2024
Replying to @aarondfrancis
harder for me because im not a PHP dev
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15 Sep 2024
It's Sunday - might as well run `brew upgrade` now.
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Jose Soto retweeted
11 Sep 2024
Harris rn killing a baby in his 78th year
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Jose Soto retweeted
It's aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!๐Ÿ™Œ
14 Aug 2024
We're not done this week! ๐Ÿ”ฅ Today on Laracasts, join @mattstauffer as he reviews the full process of building a real-life SaaS from scratch, while accounting for the odd and inconvenient feature requests we often receive along the way. laracasts.com/series/lets-buโ€ฆ
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Jose Soto retweeted
23 Jun 2024
When you remove a line of code that looked useless
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24 Jun 2024
Bartender was silently sold. *womp womp* - Time to look for alternatives.
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Alright, this is pretty nifty from DHH: omakub.org/ I will stick to my highly customized setup for now, but I love the direction of this project.

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Jose Soto retweeted
The todo application. ๐Ÿ˜… But, seriously, here's the thing... When Laravel and Rails developers say "full stack", they mean something totally different than when Next or Remix (React Router?) developers say "full stack". In Laravel and Rails, it means there are built-in, opinionated solutions to things like validation, interacting with a database, authenticating users, scheduling background work, sending an email. In Next and Remix, it seems to mean that there is simply the bare ability to run code on the server at all and an advertisement for Clerk. ๐Ÿ™ƒ From my perspective, Next and others are really, really great at the GET part of web development. Get data from some backend, show it on the page quickly. ๐Ÿ‘Œ They are not mature for POST, PUT, and DELETE, especially when things start getting non-trivial. And, I don't think this is really unique to Next or a single framework. It's something that seems to pervade current JavaScript as a whole - note the current proliferation of "starter kits" that try to bring some sanity to the full-stack story. I think this has had actual consequences in the JavaScript ecosystem... Rails and Laravel were built with the express purpose of allowing a single developer to build the next GitHub... or the next AirBnb... or the next Shopify. Prototyped from beginning to end. That's what I'm passionate about. Empowering a single developer or small team to build something amazing. I built the 1.0 of Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Vapor, Spark, and the backend of Nova by myself. $40M in revenue over 10 years from my home office. That's an empowering tool for a solo founder. I don't see a full-stack story in JavaScript yet that would allow me to realistically sit down and build something like Forge or Vapor from start to finish. Maybe I'm missing it. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ The MVP start-ups I do see fully built on current JS meta frameworks are much thinner. The stereotypical API call to an AI service. Not much meat on the bones. Laravel / Rails have been building their modern front end story with Hotwire, Livewire, Inertia, and more... Next and others are building their modern back end story. Smart people on both sides working on these problems, so I'm confident we'll both get to where we want to go. ๐Ÿ’ช
17 May 2024
bro, try laravel it's so simple compared to next. this is a todo list application:
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25 Apr 2024
Do you use postman to generate API documentation? I'm trying to generate docs for private consumption, but I'm not sure if that's a feature.
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Jose Soto retweeted
19 Mar 2024
โœจ We're hiring a Design Engineer and Staff Software Engineer to work on some ambitious new projects with us at @tailwindcss. ๐Ÿ•๏ธ Fully remote ๐Ÿ’ฐ $275,000 USD tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-โ€ฆ
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15 Mar 2024
Glad to see this.
Super pumped to announce some new additions to the Laravel team. ๐Ÿ”ฅ Tom Crary - COO Andre Valentin - @theandreval - Director of Engineering Chris Fidao - @fideloper - Infrastructure Engineer Mohamed Said - @themsaid - Engineer Infrastructure Support Alyssa Mazzina - @alyssamazzina - Customer Success Manager Michael Ryan - BizOps Yeah, serious business underway. ๐Ÿ˜‡
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13 Mar 2024
I'd consider myself well-versed in screencasting, but I just KNOW that there are going to be some nuggets of wisdom in here. Looking forward to this.
That's a heck of a testimonial ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Also, for no reason in particular, you should buy my course now please. Use code LAYOFF for a $50 discount ๐Ÿ™Š
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Jose Soto retweeted
We just tagged a new release of Takeout (v2.6.0), which adds Buggregator as a tool. Buggregator is the "Ultimate Debugging Server for PHP." It comes with a VarDumper server, an SMTP service, XHProf, and much more. All in a single container. Enjoy! โœŒ๏ธ
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Docker is still so good. I feel like a wizard when I orchestrate containers... and it just works.
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28 Feb 2024
Mastering Vim was a journey full of challenges and time commitments, but it's undoubtedly - pound for pound - the best thing I've learned. This one skill has significantly improved my quality of life. #vim #5ever
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Jose Soto retweeted
13 Feb 2024
At the lowest low. Projects were abandoning @Stacks every other day. Not Megapont. As Stacks nears an ATH in market capitalisation, up 1,648% since that statement, we have one thing to say. Have Fun Staying Poor.
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13 May 2023
How does this work?!
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