Dave Hicking

My talk at @LaraconAU 2024 is now available on YouTube 🥳 youtube.com/watch?v=wSqu8A… I cover problem solving vs. order taking, building great culture, psychological safety, and so much more...plus pics of my cute dog 🐶and a shoutout to CT pizza 🍕 & UConn basketball 🏀

Now, on @TransistorFM, you can recommend other shows you like from your podcast's website. Here are some of our fave bootstrapping, SaaS, indie startups shows from @arvidkahl, @Panel_Pod, @JordanGal, @robwalling, @aarondfrancis, @MostlyTechPod, @adamwathan, @stauffermatt

Almost time to head out to @LaraconUS 🙌

We used to be a country that built things

The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started! You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months! Please RT for reach ❤️ stateoflaravel.com/participate?re…

Interested in a sneak peak under the hood of Laravel Cloud? ☁️ Perhaps some light reading for your trip to Laracon? ⛰️ Part one of three below 👇

Trump thinks he can’t get away with firing Powell, so he sets out to humiliate him and run him out of office based on a fake scandal, but Powell pops the balloon in his face. Just release the Epstein files already.

That old Jeezy so powerful even racists had to give him his 10s

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!

This week Ian & @aarondfrancis talk about the game we'll all be playing during next week's pre-@LaraconUS Mostly Technical Party - the Hot Takes Game. Sound off in the comments with your best show related hot takes so we can use them in the game!

We have two mini meetups during Laracon breaks:

We are giving away a ticket to @laravellivedk! Want to meet the Laravel community in real life? Don’t miss this chance! ✨ Enter now and see you in Copenhagen!✨ Only eligible people apply. Thank you! #Laravel #LarabellesPHP #LaravelLiveDK

There's one feature I can't stop dreaming about in @SlackHQ: the ability to merge messages from a channel into a thread. So I prototyped it.

🎤 New week, new speaker for #LaraconAU: @sifrious, Web and Data Integration Engineer at Manifold Digital! Connecting systems, streamlining data, and diving deep into architectural patterns. We love her work.

We (@Geocodio) announced a new program today where we're giving away 100,000 free lookup credits to journalists to help support data journalism. There's never been a greater need for hard-hitting journalism, yet media budgets have never been tighter.

Without @laravelphp and their phenomenal products and 2nd to none customer support, I wouldn't have a career! Since Cloud has launched, we've moved over 500 clients (from AWS) as our 1st milestone with Laravel . Read more about our success here! blog.laravel.com/how-cms-max-po… Laravel…

Engineers deserve better swag at conferences. Here’s the @LaraconUS swag lineup, ranked by rarity (last item took 6 months to make) 👇

Whoever let me make a @letterboxd account has made a terrible mistake

Jeffrey is a valued member of the Mastering Laravel community. Many thanks to @TightenCo for generously gifting the ticket. Let’s help him round up some travel funds!

Who's joining me at @laravellivedk this year? I'll be there with some folks from the @laravelphp team so come say hi and don't be a stranger 👋 Don't have a ticket yet? Today's a great day to buy one so you can hang out with the best community in tech ❤️🚀

Final ticket price increase is tomorrow, but we're still happy to accept some late registrations laracon.us