π Founder of opendor.me - the open-source platform. π· @hospitable at day. π§βπ @astrotomic_oss at night.
Joined January 2015
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8 Jun 2021
For all interested in starting with open-source and also contributing to a package for a longer time:
This was more irony - but some advice:
Pick a package you use "daily" - check open issues, check codebase for possible improvements AND subscribe to it.
x.com/devgummibeer/status/14β¦
8 Jun 2021
Can I hire an intern to care for all the @dependabot PRs in the @astrotomic_oss repositories? π€π€―π
Applications to gummibeer@astrotomic.info π
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
Jan 17
New MergeHelper release!
π¬ Now shows open comments on PRs/MRs
β‘ Solved CPU issues (did a lot of manual profiling for this)
πͺ² Fixed several little bugs
β mergehelper.com
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
Jan 15
I built a tiny icon-morphing component with AlpineJS Blade!
You literally just pass in two SVGs and it handles the morphing for you. Could be on hover or whatever other trigger/event is needed
Super simple to use, but it makes interactions feel so much more polished.
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29 Dec 2025
Cool little helper to keep all your MR/PR on watch. Primary in a company with several repositories and AI agents creating PRs for you silently from Slack this is great. π
29 Dec 2025
kitze told me to do it soooo...
happy to launch mergehelper.com. this is my first macOS app and it does one thing: show me a unified list of PRs and MRs that matter to me across Github and Github.
It's free to try and if it solves a problem for you, you can buy it for a one-time fee of $12
started working on this last week, fully coded with Claude Code Codex
Under the hood, it's using Tauri for the app, and React for the UI. Mergehelper.com is a simple Laravel website with a tiny API to handle app-updates github release triggers (whenever I push a new tag, GH will build notarize the app and notify the website of the new release). Billing license key management is handled through @polar_sh
Learned quite some new stuff in the past couple of days and happy to answer any questions if you have them!
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
14 Nov 2025
I have decided to increase my luck surface (thanks @aarondfrancis π
) so I'm shipping an MVP of something that solves a personal frustration: I like newsletters, but I notice that I don't often subscribe to them because I like a clean inbox, too.
So, I've built Newsdrop.
You get a unique email address that you can use for newsletters and it will automatically send you an email digest whenever you want.
The MVP already has some other cool features in it as well such as automatically importing newsletters from your Gmail account, and an online inbox for all your newsletters.
Feel free to give it a go!
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
14 Nov 2025
New article about how WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig shaved minutes off our modular monolith's tests
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
6 Nov 2025
Every year, JavaScript brings new features that save us from relying on heavy libraries. From formatting dates to cloning objects, discover some of these handy additions in today's article.π
tighten.com/insights/new-ishβ¦
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4 Nov 2025
Whoever was involved/responsible in the end-scene of #paradiseonhulu and picked @tommeeprofitt Eye of the Tiger for this - itβs an absolute masterpiece and the scene feels like the song was made for it. π±π₯Ήπ€―π₯³
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30 Oct 2025
Probably someone knows. Is there any reason why the @laravelphp ShouldBeUnique interface is only respected when dispatched through Bus but not by Queue::push() ? π€
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30 Oct 2025
We have to use Queue::push() as objects/runtimes are not always gracefully destructed. I think something @timacdonald87 has experienced with the flexible cache as well. But that means that we canβt use the default unique behavior.
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18 Oct 2025
@tobias_petry in your Laravel PG package you have array types but only for ints as you say thatβs the only with real benefits compared to JSON(B) columns.
But a quick search revealed that native array types outperform JSON in every aspect when I just want an array of dates.
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18 Oct 2025
Write performance, storage size, GIN performance should be all better with native array types.
To me that would be enough reason to support way more array types. π€
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
17 Oct 2025
started another sci-fi project to play around with some ui ideas. the theme for now is a global anomaly detection system.
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ElevenLabs released a bunch of UI components for working with audio.
I modified the waveform visualizer to display the speakers in different colours based on transcript data
Beauty of shadcn type installs, just jump in a modify the code directly
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9 Oct 2025
Hey @jbrooksuk, will the ability to create Laravel Forge sites without a repo cone back? I had to create two sites completely manually and standalone also with certbot CLI as they were just nginx proxies to go & python apps on ports. π€
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
30 Sep 2025
Where can we bet on when Cursor will go out of business? Their previous valuation was $9.9 billion. Completely unjustified. And they're cutting value of their plans which means the pricing was never sustainable. What is their moat? Most people are moving to Claude Code now.
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
15 Feb 2025
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."
Not true.
A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.
What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.
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Tom Herrmann π¦¦π³π©πͺ retweeted
21 Mar 2024
Here's how to download YouTube transcripts from any video without crawling or an API key
Do with this information what you will
![<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
$videoId = "dQw4w9WgXcQ";
$transcriptUrl = Http::post("https://youtubei.googleapis.com/youtubei/v1/player", [
"videoId" => $videoId,
"context" => [
"client" => [
"hl" => "en",
"clientName" => "WEB",
"clientVersion" => "2.20210721.00.00"
]
]
]
)->json("captions.playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer.captionTracks.0.baseUrl");
$transcriptXml = Http::post($transcriptUrl, [
"videoId" => $videoId
])->body();](https://venexa.site/media/GJNHsI7XkAAfJXq.jpg)
ALT <?php use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http; $videoId = "dQw4w9WgXcQ"; $transcriptUrl = Http::post("https://youtubei.googleapis.com/youtubei/v1/player", [ "videoId" => $videoId, "context" => [ "client" => [ "hl" => "en", "clientName" => "WEB", "clientVersion" => "2.20210721.00.00" ] ] ] )->json("captions.playerCaptionsTracklistRenderer.captionTracks.0.baseUrl"); $transcriptXml = Http::post($transcriptUrl, [ "videoId" => $videoId ])->body();
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20 Jan 2025
Luckily the tools are available to make immutable carbon objects the default in your app. π₯³
gummibeer.dev/blog/2023/carbβ¦
19 Jan 2025
I think itβd be great if Laravel made all dates immutable by default. Mutability could be opt-in
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13 Jan 2025
Moin @Telekom_hilft , da man am Telefon ohne Kundennummer nicht durch kommt einmal hier.
In 01279 Dresden sind aktuell Leute unterwegs die sich als Mitarbeiter von euch ausgeben und in die Wohnung wollen um den Router zu sehen und danach VertrΓ€ge zu verkaufen.
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13 Jan 2025
@vodafone_de in 22307 Hamburg sind Leute fΓΌr "euch" unterwegs. Also ggf einmal gemeinsam Kunden aufklΓ€ren und schΓΌtzen?
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13 Jan 2025
@PolizeiSachsen ihr wart leider nicht wirklich hilfreich und habt es bei "muss ja niemand rein lassen" und "muss ja keiner unterschreiben" belassen.
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