Ashley Hindle

Laravel and I want to hire an exceptional product engineer for the AI Team 🔥 ↪ howdy.so/feai

My podcast @cheeseandweather.bsky.social is now on YouTube thanks to @davehicking.com! youtu.be/eaPCNL4LzA0 or listen at cheeseandweather.com

Beautiful CLI interfaces for everyone! Let’s celebrate our open-source packages this December, and today we explore how to create stunning terminal interfaces with Laravel Prompts. Discover tools that make command-line interactions delightful! ✨ youtu.be/vGYX07v6ygQ

YouTube is where it's at 👌

If you get chance to have Nuno Maduro as your tour guide in Lisbon, jump at it 🫶 He's a very knowledgeable & considerate human 😍

A CLI image gallery? Yes please! 🖼️ We should add drag & drop to all Laravel artisan commands 😍 It's really easy if you know how!

Ooo I wouldn't mind doing this

8.5, GIVE IT TO ME! 🫶

Wanna cowork? Just hang out and do work while I do work? 🎧 youtube.com/live/B1b9ITd...

The nice thing about using neovim is that sometimes it tells me 'good job' 😍

I accidentally spent the day training my own AI model* to write better Laravel code 😅 With a side quest of it saying 'howdy' enough times 😉 This stuff is FASCINATING, I've not felt so lost in a long time, it's awesome 🤩

Doing some chores then I'm probably going to hop on stream for a bit. twitch.tv/thetjmiller

Fun CLI experiment I forgot I did 🙈 I've built way too many CLI experiments, and found this today while building more 😅 Here's a wheel which experiments with color, cursor, animation, and rendering techniques! ☸️

If you're using Claude Code, you gotta have a snazzy supportive statusline 😍 You can use what I use: howdy.so/ccstatusline 🙌

Nobody told me how cool it would be to have the mobile app I’m building on my actual phone! Why is it so darn cool?! 🤩

I had stuff to do, so instead I started building a mobile app I've been dreaming about for a while 🫶 Of course using NativePHP 🙌 Really nice to go from an empty repo to iterating in the emulator in 30 minutes 📲

Tag yourself on the @laravel.com map 🗺️ laramap.dev

Evaluations are 100% necessary when building AI products & features 💯 Will be sharing more on this as I've learned a lot recently 🙌 Some interesting gotchas lurking here!

Raycast script to toggle natural scrolling on and off - gist.github.com/ashleyhindle... 👌 🖱️ I switch between my MX Master 3S & trackpad too often apparently 😁

We have a rare job opening at UserScape for a Support Engineer. Apply or tell a friend! jobs.userscape.com/support-engi...

Next up - Ashley Hindle! @ashleyhindle.com is the former CTO now leading Laravel’s AI initiatives. With years of experience guiding teams and building tech, he’s here to help the community harness the power of AI. Get ready to level up your Laravel game - the future is intelligent!

I’ve landed in Portugal for a week of AI learning and AI coding with the Laravel AI team (@nunomaduro.com) 💪 Can’t wait to share what we are working on 🙌

Your terminal can be a piano 😅 With this CLI piano in PHP, hooking into MacOS' Audio Toolbox 🎹

A terminal chalkboard in PHP 👨‍🏫 with positional audio!? 🎧 🤯 We can't let Aaron Francis be the _only_ person with a cool-ass chalkboard!

Draw over SSH, then download your drawing as a PNG? 🤯 Ridiculous!

Basic bitch MS Paint over SSH 🎨 Give it a try if you have a good terminal 😁 And if your terminal spews chars, just run 'reset' 😉

Your terminal can detect the exact pixel your mouse is on, and can draw RGBA pixels, so obviously you build MS Paint in your terminal with PHP 😅

Experimenting with a video content management system with 'quick record' buttons 🎬 So I can organize my channels and videos, then quickly record takes/videos linked to them 👌 Automatically organized with the correct names, into the correct folder hierarchy 🫶

Configuring my framecap tracks through my Laravel video recording app 😍

Trying out droid on a big feature, first time I've had to ask this to an AI agent 😬 😅

This is crazy - I built a screen recorder in Laravel 🤯 There's so much more possibility here, so much more I want to be able to do. It's going to be so simple to record, edit, and manage an entire video course 🔥 Let's freakin' go!

Experimenting with recording my videos from a Laravel app 🫶 Got a nice wrapper around 'framecap' and automated snapshot & audio monitoring for confidence monitoring on the web 💪 'Markers' next with keyboard shortcuts for take quality & chapters 🤖

I am never going to mentally recover from this 😬

I'm so lazy I have a command that opens Spotify and plays a particular playlist 😅 Using this a lot right now, for when I need to focus and start doing deep work 🎧

Made a lil' terminal loading animation with weird words, guess I can be CTO of Anthropic now? 😅

Need a UUID? I got you 😅

Fancy working at Laravel in the Open Source team with Joe T? 💭 apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15...

I'm using MCP outside of coding every day atm 🔥 Here's one process I use regularly, and the Laravel code behind it 🫶 youtu.be/LoAEi5Hz--o

Everybody knows you can name files with emojis, but it's _still_ crazy that this works no?! 🤯

📢 I'm building a Github PR tool to help teams using Laravel to ship more smoothly 🫧 And I accidentally like GraphQL now 😅 I was not expecting that!

🔮 Keeping track of the kids' homework situation is painful 😩 So, I built an MCP tool so Claude Desktop and I can co-parent 😂 It logs into the necessary portals and parses the due homework for me, so now life is _slightly_ easier 😌

I knew I shouldn't have setup phpstan on my side project 😂

Hey, MCP is pretty great

🤔 Niche CLI weirdness: I have a little script I pipe output to which makes sure the command I ran is always at the very top 😁 Helpful for screencasts - it works by wrapping & truncating any content that's too long, and padding content that's too short 👌

Claude is really gunning for me today 😁 Doesn't it know I'm feeling ill? I need gentle feedback 😂

🔮 My current 'philosophy' and defaults when building AI features in Laravel: gist.github.com/ashleyhindle... 👌 Tell me what I missed, or which bits you disagreed with so it can be better 🫶

🧠 You know what Claude Code taught me recently? I use "think" a lot in chats with Claude Code 😅 and have to disable the 'auto-thinking' mode quite a bit

> You can now run `herd db` via the CLI to open the current database connection in TablePlus. YES, THANK YOU! 🙌