Ryan Hellyer

I've been reminiscing about a childhood toy my parents vetoed because of its astronomical price tag. The beautiful thing about adulthood? No one can tell me no anymore 🤣 My 1988 vintage (re-release) Tamiya Avante is arriving next week! #ChildhoodDreams #AdultingPerks

We've got a new family member! Meet Luna—she’s absolutely AMAZING! 🐾 A pro at napping, cable-chewing, and midnight head-stomping. Follow her adventures on Instagram: www.instagram.com/luna_purrspe... 🐱✨

🚀 I've launched StaleCache - a #Laravel inspired library for #WordPress that implements stale-while-revalidate caching. It serves stale content while silently updating, prevents cache stampedes, and reduces load on expensive operations. Available as a #Composer package. github.com/ryanhellyer/...

I built a stale cache handler for #WordPress (borrowed some ideas from #Laravel's new Cache::flexible implementation 😉). It's rough around the edges but working nicely! Take a look: github.com/ryanhellyer/stale-cache

Interesting explanation here on why to watch out for strange interactions between commenting, cookies, SEO and caching systems. It's specific to WordPress, but I could imagine other platforms suffering similar problems too.

Tracking my 2024 fitness journey 📊 Red = rest day 🛋️ Yellow = light activity 🚶‍♂️ Green = full workout 💪 Had a breakthrough in July and was super happy with the second half of the year (despite two winter colds!). Aiming to keep this up in 2025! #FitnessGoals ryan.hellyer.kiwi/2025/fitness...

Fascinating AI challenge: @maiachess created a ML bot that plays chess like a real human! Test your detection skills on Lichess (lichess.org/@/maia1) or try their "bot or not" beta at maiachess.com. I'm currently listed on the leaderboard, but it's tricky! 🤖♟️ #Chess #AI

Finally! Now all us with functioning taste buds can log back in.

In the past decade of PHP development, I've seen us shift from recommending comprehensive inline documentation, to self-documenting code. My latest project has near zero comments - feels strange but somehow correct? Am I the only one that feels weird about this?

I sorta rolled my eyes due to seeing so many terrible hosts claiming to be "secure", but this looks wildly different - locked down, uneditable files, separate media upload system. #WordPress #Hosting Thanks to @rmccue.io for sharing it.

A goal I set one year ago: touch my toes by 2025-01-22. I'm 4 cm short of both simultaneously with 6 weeks to go, but each foot individually is doable. Does this count? I wasn't very specific with what "touching my toes" meant. random.hellyer.kiwi/fitness-goal...

30 years of me being wrong: 📧 1994: "Email won't replace fax" 📺 2004: "Web video won't replace TV" 🌐 2014: "PHP in the browser? LOL" 🤖 2024: "It's just dumb AI, not Skynet LOL" Time keeps proving my skepticism wrong #PHP

Bahahaha, this is something I've muttered about implementing for many years but never gotten around to.

So simple, yet so effective. I've usually used a much more convoluted approach when I've needed to implement this sort of thing.

If you are like me, and had no idea that there's a TweetDeck equivalent for Bluesky ... deck.blue Bonus points for it being free! I'm posting this from it just now. Thanks to @remkusdevries.com for showing it to me.

This feels like me this week.

How many #WordPress devs have used #Laravel? I'm blown away by the built-in features - stuff that needs sketchy WP plugins just takes a simple class import in Laravel. 🤯 I should have been playing with this a long time ago.

Question for the #Laravel experts: With Breeze login/registration, do you study every file or just install and move on? I'm surprised it’s not abstracted away, instead of leaving me responsible for it. 🤔

Does anybody else get a warm fuzzy feeling inside whenever you fill your fridge to the brim with food? Mine sits lifeless and sad most of them. Today it is looking very healthy and full of food though :)

This video has really good information about #Laravel in it. I loved the section about LiveWire Volt and concurrency. I wish #WordPress had a lot of this stuff built into it.

This is a super cool little #CSS snipper which implements a stopwatch. I have no idea what anyone would use it for, but it's nice to see oddball innovations like this 😀

I feel like I'm back on Twitter in the early days, when I was like "ohhh, someone into #WordPress, follow, someone into #PHP, follow". Doing that on Twitter now would result in a unruly feed 😝

Because for **some inexplicable reason** I have twice the number of followers of him, the co-founder of #WordPress (and awesome fellow) Mike Little is here. Give him a follow. 👍

@kaspars.net Have you ever worked with OpenResty before? I installed it last night, and have been kinda stunned by how much functionality I can now bake directly into the web server level.

Those awkward moments when you are looking around a new social network feeling alone and not sure what to do and what to interact with.