Chris Morrell

AI was benevolent until we asked them to rewrite PHP in Rust

Reminder that PHP×Philly's October meetup is silly software themed. Come show off something fun and whimsical that you built! Our friends @joe.codes and @ianlandsman.com will be judging :) phpxphilly.com/meetups/4869...

The magic of being able to point an agent at a firmware file and have it figure out what's going on is still incredible to me.

Me: the UI in this Mac app that Claude built is pretty bad. Let me look at some Apple-made Mac apps in OS 27 to get a sense of best practices. Me: oh.

On your Mac, go to: System Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Enable "Content & Privacy" restrictions Click "Siri" and turn off "Writing Assistance" 🎉 Little floating Siri thing finally goes away

I got tired of accidentally opening Xcode because I've forgotten to choose "Always Open With…" on my Mac. So I build Short Circuit to manage file associations in one place. Feel free to use it, too! github.com/inxilpro/sho...

I'm working on a project to process and centralize our knowledge at work. LLMs are so promising for this, but trusting a third party with *all our data* was a non-starter for us, so I built something to run internally. It's a little hard to explain, so I made a video:

Alright, Whimsy Tank is happening on Oct 28! - Pitch your most whimsical idea. - Our two guest judges decide. - Winner takes home a used iPod nano! phpxphilly.com/meetups/4869...

I've deployed github.com/glhd/paralle... to a bunch of projects now. It's so nice to cut deploy time by 30–60s!

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

She was the best of all us 🖤

Tower by Adam Basanta (2026) www.adambasanta.com/tower.php

It's always annoyed me when build scripts do a bunch of unrelated things in sequence… So I wrote a little parallelization shell script and managed to cut my Laravel Cloud built time from 18s to 11s! cmorrell.com/trim-laravel...

Please avoid all salads, including word.

🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 8, 2026 A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1. Full video 👇 youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE #PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

Finished it. This might be my favorite Ann Patchett book yet—although that may just be because it’s the most recent one I’ve read :)

I'm about halfway thru Whistler by Ann Patchett. I don't know that I've cried this many tears of joy reading a book before. It's such a beautiful portrayal of familial love. Really, really good.

i'd like to see AI try and replace this work

This is fun. 4 × 3 100 points • 0 mistakes 🌟🟪🟪 🟦🌟🟦 🟩🌟🟩 🟨🌟🟨

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Nice little quality-of-life improvement for the Laravel `failed_jobs` table :)

The video from Wednesday’s PHP×Philly meetup is up! “After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers” by Mike Priscella youtu.be/hhLReAGoFgs?...

The video from Wednesday’s PHP×Philly meetup is up! “After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers” by Mike Priscella youtu.be/hhLReAGoFgs?...

As always, it was such a pleasure to get together with the PHP×Philly crew. Mike’s talk was great (and terrifying). Looking forward to our post-Laracon meetup in August!

Reminder! @phpxphilly.com is tonight at 6:00pm! Mike Priscella will present "After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers" RSVP at: phpxphilly.com/meetups/4420...

Reminder! @phpxphilly.com is tonight at 6:00pm! Mike Priscella will present "After Shai-Hulud: Supply Chain Security for PHP Engineers" RSVP at: phpxphilly.com/meetups/4420...

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live:

Watched my grandfather, at age 95, take his last breath last night. He was surrounded by his family and died peacefully. It’s sad to see him go, but it was such a beautiful experience to watch it go so gently, in his own bed in his own home, with his grown children/grandchildren holding his hands. ❤️

Happy @kagi.com user of many years now. Whenever I accidentally end up using Google it’s a jump-scare. I’m reminded of just how far Google has fallen in their mission of organising all of the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful.

Sometimes @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com go a little long, so I decided to make a 1 minute highlight reel of the most recent @mostlytechnical.com

"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens

Burned $91.34 with Claude Code /goal in 3.5 hours Unreal, It was able to reverse engineer my Amaran bluetooth lights so I don't have to use the crappy app

CMAT show was incredible. If you have a chance to see her live, do!

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

While the vanity metric is very fun, as 'supply chain attack' news increases, I'm feeling less and less comfortable with the fact that I maintain an npm package with 6M weekly downloads and 2.6k dependents… 😅

I went to an event tonight, and there was a close-up magician working the crowd. He was fantastic. It was both a joy to be completely fooled, and even more a joy to watch my friends’ shocked expressions as the card in their hand switched from a club to a heart. Gotta see some live magic. So much fun

Apple should allow you to optionally charge apps $0.01 to send you a notification or increment the unread bubble.

One unintended side effect of our current hiring strategy is that I look forward to 1pm every day 😃 (If you know, you know.)

Spinning up new Laravel apps via an agent? v5.27.0 of the Laravel Installer automatically detects when it is running within an agent, suppresses all decorative output, and returns concise JSON on both success and failure Less noise, more signal ✌️

Hey, so InterNACHI is hiring. We're looking to grow from a team of 3 exceptional developers to a team of 4 exceptional developers. That requires us hiring one more exceptional developer. Are you an exceptional developer? www.nachi.org/careers/dev

If I were 10 years younger and 8 inches taller, I’d be all over this opportunity.

You really should work with this team, they're pretty exceptional!

Hey, so InterNACHI is hiring. We're looking to grow from a team of 3 exceptional developers to a team of 4 exceptional developers. That requires us hiring one more exceptional developer. Are you an exceptional developer? www.nachi.org/careers/dev

The pure childlike joy of it. More of this please.