Alex Justesen

👋 I'm a developer and habitual problem solver from Connecticut. I help businesses build software solutions that solve problems. I work mainly in the #Laravel ecosystem. 🧑‍💻 Coding @maltmethod.dev 🚀 Launching @leaguemanager.club 🐇 Building speedtest-tracker.dev 🍻 Drinking untappd.com/user/ajustesen

Good

Time to get League Manager shipped, if you run an adult rec league I want your 2c: tally.so/r/RGgAeJ

My dream is to open a restaurant and bar where being a part of the staff can be a viable career. It's in my 10yr plan

👀 cli go burrr

I can't believe I have to say this but... github.com/alexjustesen...

I believe none of y'all today

Fffun

This is going to be a wicked sweet event, @laravel.com #LaraconUS is coming to Boston! laracon.us

Fuck

We’ve launched Filament v5 and Filament Blueprint today! 🤖 Filament v5 adds support for the newly-released Livewire v4! Blueprint is a premium Laravel Boost extension that gives AI agents deep, structured knowledge of Filament, so they can write detailed implementation plans.

Like the rest of the internet, Sentry runs on Open Source. Like the rest of the @opensourcepledge.com companies, we also believe in paying it back. In 2025, we gave out $750k to the OSS projects we rely on; here’s a sampling of some of them, and why they are so crucial 🧵

👀 github.com/alexjustesen...

🥳 #SpeedtestTracker 200th release! github.com/alexjustesen...

This is not how you provide feedback to an OSS creator/maintainer: github.com/alexjustesen...

👀 Started work on new Speedtest Tracker dashboards...

The problem maintaining a tool that finds issues is that when it does some people think the tools is the problem 🤦‍♂️

👀 Starting to riff on the new #SpeedtestTracker admin panel dashboard.

For anyone using #SpeedtestTracker I need your feedback: github.com/alexjustesen...

I've got big plans for this week 😎

Frequent && small releases > Infrequent && large releases

Looking for a new challenge? 🚀 Wunderite, Inc. is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer with skills in Laravel 12, Vue 3, and TypeScript. Join a Series A Startup and make a real impact! Apply here: larajobs.com/job/3775 #laravel

The internet needs to get their shit together today 🤬 www.githubstatus.com

Oh look... the internet broke again 🙄

Don't waste tokens on your test suite 🤣

Fix my 🗑️🔥...

Writing tests is a waste of tokens

Wow, Laramap is really taking off. I never expected so many fellow developers to sign up. Thanks to this amazing community. Additionally, the first companies have reached out to support the project. Huge thanks to @ploi.io and Chief Tools. #Laravel #Laramap

Just signed up. Would love to be able to find more local Laravel folks!

Who's using Docker + PHP with serversideup/php? We'd love you to share your link below 😃 github.com/serversideup...

Finally updated #SpeedtestTracker to @filamentphp.com v4: github.com/alexjustesen...

Urg I was almost done with the feature too

who called it arson and not crime brûlée

I been sitting on cleaning up translations for a while, time to get this over the line github.com/alexjustesen...

Really great talk by friends of the show NativePHP. Crazy stuff going on for PHP on mobile.

Wire:live baby

This graph makes me happy. 🙂 It definitely shows how well SQLite performs when properly tuned. Thanks to @alexjustesen.com for helping out with this back in August! 🍻

Inhaled some BBQ in Syracuse, back on the road to Buffalo for #WireLive

I love the fall

📣 The Laravel Open Source team is hiring! If you want to help create an incredible developer experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of software engineers, let's chat 🤙 apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...

Damn...

I'm so excited for #WireLive in Buffalo and I get to actually represent my day job instead of rolling through as a freelance dev.

Knowing when to drop an idea/project is harder than building anything.

Curious about what makes Nightwatch tick? @jessarcher.bsky.social and I have detailed how we put together a low touch, high throughput, realtime analytics stack using AWS and ClickHouse cloud. Read our AWS Big Data blog here - aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...

The real benefit to having AI in your toolbox is multitasking... - Prompt && brew a coffee - Instruct && reply to emails - Cook && prep dinner

Don't mind the eggs, just listening to a classic

Claude and X having issues all at the same time?

Long ass day, time for a peaty treat

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...