David Hill
@iamdavidhill
Head of Design @laravelphp • Chief Design Officer @terminaldotshop • Previously Design VP @Barclays • Occasional Freelance
🚧🚧 New SaaS Project 🚧🚧 I started building my own little saas project this morning. My aim is to build it a little each day and to see how far I can take it. If that sounds like something you're interested in then follow along. A thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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.
“Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should–and must–question everything generally thought to be obvious. – Dieter Rams” – Orman Clark
“Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should–and must–question everything generally thought to be obvious.” – Dieter Rams
🧬 “What is the DNA that makes something feel like @laravelphp?” @iamdavidhill shares how the team is still defining the brand and what makes a Laravel product feel like Laravel. Tune in to hear more 🎙️
If you like Laravel, and you like Design, and you like the word like as much as I do it seems. Then give this post a listen... and a Like. ✌🏻
🎙️ New episode! @stauffermatt chats with @iamdavidhill, Head of Design at @laravelphp and Chief Design Officer at @terminaldotshop, about his journey from industrial to digital design, creative constraints, and the power of hands-on practice. 🎧 Tune in!
‘hacked’ by @terminaldotshop for @boltdotnew for the worlds biggest hackathon.
When I accepted my role at Laravel I immediately knew Hugo would be my first hire. As awesome to work with and get to know IRL as he is to follow as an internet friend. Happy Birthday Hugo 🙌🏻
Today I completed my 30th trip around the sun. Grateful for life and friends, including internet friends 🥂
Incredible architecture
Blown away by the architecture of this newly built library in Tianjin, China
Just switched back to the browser on an open app and thought, "Wow, that's hot 🔥" ...then immediately realised it was Laravel Cloud 😆
Thanks to @meetgranola for hosting a superb meetup with @soleio this evening. Great to see many familiar faces and meet new ones. Loving this vibe around the London startup/design scene and inspired by what’s being created… also the Granola office is beautiful 🤌🏻
Never a truer word spoken when it comes to building products.
Repair and maintenance is a much deeper expression of craft and care than creating something new. New is much easier than considered evolution. Right now we are obsessed with new. Yet one way or another, we are all participants in the maintenance race.
Completed first month of running a production workload on Laravel Cloud 🚀 Hard to believe the platform is only a few months old, it's extremely solid. This whole ecosystem is just so well integrated and easy to work with.
And that boys and girls, is why @adamdotdev is the best.
adam is out here putting toasts in your terminal did you even know that was possible
This. Period.
Warning: I’m about to glaze tf out of @perplexity_ai and @PPLXsupply I am not sponsored (but I really should be - my DMs are open). More importantly: for all of the garbage companies out there producing slop, empty hype, or awful cultures, I’m making a point to highlight the…
opencode rewrite is done and ready for general use - works with claude pro/max - beautiful themeable tui - shareable links for any session - zero config LSP support - works with 75+ LLM providers (including local) link in reply