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Jason McCreary
@gonedark
I’m JMac. I build things with my hands like @laravelshift and my standing desk.
Louisville, KY
jasonmccreary.me
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Dec 29, 2020
    My best bit of programming yet.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Aug 4, 2020
    🚀 Excited to officially announce the release of BaseLaravel. 📕 99 pages 📺 2 hours of videos 🎙️ 4 exclusive live-streams All demo over 20 practices for streamlining your Laravel applications. And the ebook is FREE! 🥰
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    BaseLaravel - streamline your code
    From baselaravel.com
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Nov 12, 2021
    A $10 investment which has probably earned me millions.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Dec 1, 2021
    🎉 Last week, Shift surpassed $1,000,000 in revenue. 🎉 This is a big milestone. It's taken 6 years to reach. I honestly wasn't sure if it would at times. I kept grinding. I learned some things along way…
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Nov 25, 2020
    Well that's pretty dope... 🔥
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Nov 16, 2017
    🔥 Pushing yourself to remove comments is one of the best drivers towards clean code. Here's a few tips on how to spot and replace comments that may be unnecessary…
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Sep 6, 2024
    A modernization of the official PHP documentation would go a long way in making PHP feel as relevant today as it was 10 years ago.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Oct 31, 2020
    Replying to @gonedark
    After a 36 hour deployment, we are now running serverless. First geek dad joke. 🤓 Welcome Isabella Rose. 🥰
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Nov 22, 2017
    ☠️ "Dead Code" can rot a code base over time. Here are a few common types of dead code. Be diligent and thorough about removing them as the code evolves. Even dead code can still cause problems.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Jun 14, 2020
    WIP
    Baby girl "wave"
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Jul 16, 2020
    🔥 There are so many expressive Blade directives available in Laravel. One of my favorite is `@forelse`. It combines the typical check for the empty state and the loop over a collection into one. A perfect streamline.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Dec 7, 2022
    Excited for the release of daughter v2, project code named Emilia Lilly.
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    Jun 26, 2020
    I still write the method attribute value in all caps, just like I did back in 1999. 😎
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    Jason McCreary
    @gonedark
    May 28, 2022
    Good commit messages communicate "why" a change was made, not "what" change was made. The code itself demonstrates "what", "how", "where", etc. It's the commit message which relays the important human aspect of "why". Here's a quick example:
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