Chris Sev
@chris__sev
🟥 Director of DevRel at @LaravelPHP 💍 married AF @kapehe_ok
Today I am joining Laravel as Director of DevRel 😍 !!! This is the role my entire career has led me to: ・Started using @laravelphp in 2013 (v3) ・Built + sold a company on Laravel (scotchdotio) ・Wrote + recorded 100s of tutorials on Laravel ・Joined DigitalOcean and spent 4.5…

😮 Amazing life update: I'm now working at @laravelphp on all things AI 🤯 To celebrate, I would love to know what you're shipping with AI 👀 to help shape the Laravel AI roadmap 🫶 Reply here with what you are up to, what's gone well, and what's been annoying 😁
I'm guessing it's way too late, which is fine, but we've had a Laracon Scholarship recipient unable to attend because of inability to get approved for a visa, so if anyone just happens to be in Denver this coming week and wants to attend, please hit me up!
5 days until @LaraconUS ! 🏔️ If you see anyone wearing this shirt (especially me), go up and say hey! The team (especially me) loves chatting with as many people as possible Laracon Hallway Track 4 Lyfe!
If you see someone in this, they are a Laravel Core Team member and want to talk to you! We got 3 each so we don't stink by the end of Laracon.... a lesson I wish I hadn't learned through experience 😅
I've gotten a sneak peek at a lot of the @LaraconUS talks What. A. Lineup. 🤯.
What you’ll see during the Laravel team keynote at @LaraconUS - AI - TypeScript - Inertia - Nightwatch updates - Next evolution of Laravel Forge - Multiple banger features for Laravel Cloud Let’s ship.
the new comet browser is insane. still learning how to use it but its the first look at a true AI assistant in my eyes its got access to browse and click around the web for you so it can do anything that you can do online in the 1st day, i've used it to: 1 search gmail AND…

Lunch brought to you today by our very own garden, @chris__sev!! Taco bowls with lettuce we grew 🥹🌱🥬
reviving an older project thanks to claude code tailwind v4 livewire flux v2 react 19 shadcn for tailwind v4

Good news: Laravel Nightwatch now gives 50% more events on all plans! For us, it's now clear that Laravel Daily + Filament Examples sites will "survive" on the $20 / month plan with 7.5M events. Also, they improved sampling. Video by @joshcirre: youtube.com/watch?v=aN5Dw4…
Laravel Nightwatch now has a 50% increase in allotted events across all plans (even the free one). But you can dial in almost every single event that gets sent to Nightwatch or how much of each event gets sent with sampling. So I made a video talking through it all.
Added Nightwatch to an app and have been improving it bit by bit. Mostly optimizing queries 2 weeks later = 75% faster 💪

Nightwatch 🤝 Octane composer require laravel/nightwatch:^1.9
Nightwatch agent 1.9.0 has shipped and includes support for Laravel Octane. 🚀 nightwatch.laravel.com
🔴 Going live on DigitalOcean's show in 10 minutes! Full circle for me. This is the podcast/show that I helped create when I worked there 🥹
It wouldn't be a Cloud Chats season finale without a special guest. 🤝☁️🦈 @chris__sev joins our #Developer advocates to discuss his journey from #DigitalOcean to Head of DevRel at @Laravel, demos how the platforms work better together, & takes us behind the scenes of Laracon…
Hallway track at Laracon is the best hallway track of any conference I even got my current role at Laravel because of last year's hallway track!
Laracon US 2024 changed my life and I’ll forever be thankful that I had the opportunity to go 🥹 Here’s how and some of my favorite things about Laracon ✨