Matt Stauffer
@mattstauffer
CEO at
@tighten. Podcaster (Laravel Podcast, Pragmatic AI, Business of Laravel), open source maintainer, blogger, etc.
- Tighten (
@tighten) - Atlanta, GA
- mattstauffer.com/
- github.com/mattstauffer
- Joined October 2026
Commit activity
30 commits in the last 30 days
longest streak 6 dayscurrent 6
1,336 / 2,500 XP1,164 XP to root
Yesterday
Thu, Nov 5
Currently last minute finishing my slides for #LaraconAu while Claude vibe codes an entire puzzle for giving away copies of my book. Will share as soon as it's done!
If you want to follow #laraconau here, @offskip-dave is the guy for it. I was trying to live tweet it but I need to work on my freaking talk lol
This! #LaraconAU
Wed, Nov 4
OK. It's 11:30am. In the last 40 hours I've gotten 4 hours of sleep (screaming baby on the flight over). I'm so tired my vision is starting to blur. But I just got into the country and don't want to mess up my jet lag. Do I:
- Just drink more caffeine0%, 0 votes
- Push through without caffeine10%, 1 vote
- Take a 90 minute nap this afternoon90%, 9 votes
10 votesFinal results
So my battle tested advice would be: push through and do a brewery tour with me. Just saying 😂
Nap + HYDRATE. Anytime I'm in a situation like this, it can be easy to forget to do that lol. I find it helps immensely!
Tue, Nov 3
@tom So if everyone at Laracon Au wants to post to a centralized space… do we have groups, or hashtags, or anything? Or is that just not part of the dev/null ethos? Or have people considered it and we just don’t have it live rn?
I’m on a plane and the internet is garbage so I…
matt asked from a plane, nuno said "give me 3 minutes" and the hashtags commit landed 8 minutes later 😅 the most accurate estimate in software history #LaraconAU
follow-up question: what would you want?
- live discussions to replace a slack? (e.g. for attendees to queue questions to speakers during their talks?
- commits (posts) that can talk about the conference, like hashtags on twitter?
- a page about the conference where speakers &…
Well @nunomaduro told ne to post pictures of my trip to Australia. First up, landing at LAX
Mon, Nov 2
Sat, Oct 24
I had to ask the maintainers of an open source project today: what's a reasonable cadence for me to submit PRs? I have SO MANY THINGS I want to contribute, but I don't want to overload you.
As a maintainer, it's clear that the best PR is small and clearly described. But even the…
As a maintainer, the best PR is that one that resolves a clear pain in the software. Not a small fix, or polishing some detail you like, but something that adds raw value.
How often?
The more you do, the more you understand, the more we trust your judgement.
What's the worst…
Slightly unrelated, but I did see someone asking @tom for suggestions for a good first PR. It might be worth creating it as a list and other developers should share the load (and help iterate on ideas)
We are super-powered now. We now need to relieve the bottle neck on either ends of the development process:
- discovery and prioritization of work to be done
- assessing and accepting performed work
We're only giving agents the middle bit and it's making everyone much slower…
Thu, Oct 22
I was at a business conference for the last few days
and at the end its last networking thing was to play pickleball together
(I've never played pickleball)
Upside: it's very, very easy to learn and very fun
Downside: freaking pickleball elbow?!? WTF?
Hey Matt -
Short term: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3C7MSBW?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1
Long term: the more you play, you'll figure out you don't need to hit every shot as hard as you can. It goes from a game of power to a game of strategy. That surprised me.
Wed, Oct 21
Annnd today is perfect proof of why the PHP Foundation is so freaking important.
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/

thephp.foundationToday's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP SecurityDescribing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.
This led to me teaching my wife all about Little Bobby Tables over dinner tonight
The PHP security team would like to give advance notice of an upcoming security release. It is scheduled for Wed, Oct 21st 2026 at 14:00 UTC. It addresses two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2. All PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update.
Earlier release…
Sat, Oct 17
Got a $50 photo frame to try this Wes Bos plan:
https://x.com/wesbos/status/2108550413599265045
Now I just need to find time to actually work on it 😬
X (formerly Twitter)Wes Bos (@wesbos) on XI have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB 1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video https://t.co/QhIiKjl…
Fri, Oct 16
Hm, I think I may need to put in a feature request for animated GIF/WEBP!
you can or you can just let your clanker do it and create a PR, lol. welcome aboard
That's @mattstauffer's root commit.