writing about laravel & php
Mathias Grimm.
Software engineer, currently doing tech support at Laravel. Notes on PHP, Laravel, image processing and the craft of building for the web. Sometimes about the code, sometimes about what it means to write it.
Father and husband. Follower of Christ.
bash - mathias
$ whoami mathias grimm (software engineer) $ cat job.txt tech support engineer @ laravel $ cat stack.txt php · laravel · image processing $ tail -f blog.log Newest isn't best: the model I picked is three generations old
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Newest isn't best: the model I picked is three generations old
I spent $35 in API calls to learn that the top models translate a book about equally well, and that the cheapest of them costs 64 times less than the most expensive.
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Raise Your Awareness by Embracing Overhead
For the last two or three years, my wife and I have been tracking expenses by sending a quick message to a small Telegram bot. It adds a little bit of work every time, and that is exactly the point.
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Artisan: The Agent who Mocked Time
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2025 Foi Incrível — E Você Não Está Velho
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2025 was awesome and you're not old
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My take on the FFMPEG drama
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