Hey Ben 👋

I saw your tweet and thought it was interesting, so figured I'd put something together real quick for you, vs DM'ing you a mess of links.

Some develop-ery things I've done:

Torchlight.dev - A syntax highlighting API. I built this because I was frustrated that all the other highlighters sucked (in my opinion.) Now it's used on Laravel News, Statamic, PestPHP, Fathom Analytics, and a bunch of other sites.
Sidecar - This is a Laravel library that lets you deploy a microservice as a part of your monolith. It takes a lot of the coordination nightmare out of managing Lambdas. I'm giving a talk on this at Laracon online on February 9th.
Live Coding Presentation - My first live coding presentation, which was a demo of Sidecar.
One of my recent MySQL articles got 169 retweets, which seems like a lot for an article on MySQL 😂
Another MySQL article got 94 retweets. I guess people like MySQL?
My best tweet ever was about how I built a bunch of robots to handwrite some letters.
A few of my articles have made it to the front-page of HN.
I record a podcast (which you listened to an episode of!)
I have a side business with Sean and Colleen, where we sell a query builder for Rails and Laravel.
I've grown my twitter from 1,200 at the beginning of last year to 5,000 at the moment, mostly by following three simple rules.

Currently

I'm currently FT employed at a property tax company in Texas. I'm the COO+CTO, which just means I do a little bit of programming myself, work with two other programmers, and manage about 20 non-technical people.

I've been there four or so years and we've grown our properties under management by about 4x since I started.

I'm not sure exactly what the role you're hiring for is, but I'd love to talk about it if you think it makes sense!

References

I looked through the people you follow to see who in there would know me enough to give you any intel. I added a few more that I think you know:

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