Hacker News: jbrooksuk

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Show HN: Berroku – A fresh logic puzzle that's delightfully addictive"

jbrooksuk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:21:44 +0000

Hey all, for the last few evenings I (but moreso Claude) have been working on an iOS game called Berroku.

It's a delightfully simple, yet addictive puzzle game. Sudoku Minesweeper. I've long wanted to turn this into an app with achievements, leaderboards, offline play and more.

(Heavily) inspired by Blueberry Trio by Circle Moon Puzzles. https://circle9puzzle.com/bbtrio/

Show HN: Berroku – A fresh logic puzzle that's delightfully addictive

jbrooksuk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.berroku.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672170

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's"

jbrooksuk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:42:11 +0000

Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

jbrooksuk — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:08:34 +0000

Personally:

- The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet - https://artisan.page

- Cachet, the open source status page system - https://cachethq.io

Professionally:

- Laravel Cloud's "Private Cloud" offering - https://cloud.laravel.com/enterprise

Notepad.pub

jbrooksuk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:24:28 +0000

Article URL: https://notepad.pub

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630998

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jbrooksuk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:33:25 +0000

https://james.brooks.page

Getting into public speaking

jbrooksuk — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216008

Points: 164

# Comments: 48

New comment by jbrooksuk in "The next generation of Laravel Forge"

jbrooksuk — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:33:50 +0000

Yesterday we released the next generation of Laravel Forge. This is the biggest update we’ve made since we originally launched back in 2014. The web has changed a lot since then, and so have our expectations of what a server management platform should offer. That’s why we added a whole bunch of new features including:

- Instant Laravel VPS servers - Zero downtime deployments - Free on-forge domains - Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics - First-party Nuxt.js and Next.js support

Aside from being created within 10 seconds, our new Laravel VPS servers - backed by our partnership with DigitalOcean - also offers a cool new feature: Team terminal sessions. You can open an SSH session straight to your server within Forge and also pair with your teammates!

The next generation of Laravel Forge

jbrooksuk — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:33:50 +0000

Article URL: https://laravel.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-forge-laravel-vps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448028

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Tweet.new"

jbrooksuk — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:21:32 +0000

Thanks! Glad you found it funny too! :)

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Tweet.new"

jbrooksuk — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:10:37 +0000

Well, there's a few reasons:

1. It's funny. 2. It's actually useful. 3. I'm a dummy.

Hope you find it funny and useful though!

Tweet.new

jbrooksuk — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 07:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://james.brooks.page/blog/tweet-new

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785361

Points: 5

# Comments: 5

Cachet Update – Oct 2024

jbrooksuk — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:18:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cachethq.io/cachet-3-x-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Laravel Reverb Now Available

jbrooksuk — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://reverb.laravel.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682580

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Laravel 11.x Artisan Commands

jbrooksuk — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://artisan.page/11.x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682542

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Laravel 11 Now Available

jbrooksuk — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.laravel.com/laravel-11-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679963

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Is Tableau Dead?"

jbrooksuk — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:16:38 +0000

I've never used Tableau, but heard a lot of hate about it. However, in my previous role, we were big fans of Metabase (https://metabase.com). You can also self-host it, which was a huge win for us.

Cachet 3.x Announcement

jbrooksuk — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cachethq/cachet/discussions/4342

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118559

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

jbrooksuk — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:20:41 +0000

Sure! https://james.brooks.page

New comment by jbrooksuk in "Companies must stop using Google Analytics"

jbrooksuk — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:10:42 +0000

Yes, you should absolutely not be using Google Analytics. They don't need more data, your users don't want to see cookie banners and most of you really don't need 99% of the data that you can filter through...

I can't recommend Fathom (https://usefathom.com) enough. They have a huge focus on privacy-first tracking. You don't need to show a cookie banner and you can still track events etc.

If you want $10 credit for signing up, use https://usefathom.com/james but otherwise, https://usefathom.com

Seriously, Google Analytics sucks. Use anything other than that.