I outgrew Laravel Herd - mostly because I found developing natively on Windows to be extremely painful, not because Herd was in any way deficient.
I moved all my dev into WSL and used PhpStorm to develop remotely. I ran all my Claude Code sessions via tmux in WSL and it worked…
Simon Hampel
@simonhampel
Founder of PropertyChat and ZooChat; works at
@hampel
- Hampel Group Pty Ltd
- Sydney, Australia
- about.me/simonhampel
- github.com/simonhampel
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
73 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 9 days
1,696 / 2,500 XP804 XP to root
Mon, Nov 2
Now I'm not going to want to downgrade from Ultra back to Max, am I? Well played Anthropic, well played!
Sat, Oct 24
Fri, Oct 23
There has been one. At least one of the repo prompts had instructions to copy itself to all other repos on the person's system. I don't think any went the next step to commit and update to origin all repos on the system.
Wed, Oct 21
Mon, Oct 19
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Sat, Oct 17
My Laravel Zero app is now also a stdio mode MCP server which means you can have Claude Code (or your other favourite agent that speaks MCP) do read-only queries for /dev/null accounts and posts:
How about a Laravel Zero client for /dev/null? Because why not? https://github.com/hampel/zero-dev-null - this post was written via the bash cli on my dev machine running Ubuntu on WSL, because I can
GitHubGitHub - hampel/zero-dev-null: Commit to /dev/null (dev-null.sh) from the command line, signed with an SSH key on your GitHub account.Commit to /dev/null (dev-null.sh) from the command line, signed with an SSH key on your GitHub account. - hampel/zero-dev-null
We need a simple term for "vibe coding by someone who actually knows how to code" that we can start pushing on the non-technical community. I've been using "agentic coding", but that's still too complex for them to understand and most people typically don't get the difference…
I'd call it “resigned to writing prompts like a useless person because of the shareholders' ignorance" developer.
I bet the Germans already have a word for that. And it’s probably unpronounceable for us.
Fri, Oct 16
That's @simonhampel's root commit.