Reading this made me really nostalgic. I cut my teeth in web/software dev in the Laravel 5.x days, and it's quite jarring comparing the day-to-day we have now with back then!

you'll probably love this then, https://hellnet.work/8831/

a huge archive of 88x31 buttons scraped from the GeoCities archives.

I feel ya, we're slowly phasing out our Laravel monolith for python lambdas. I miss those beautiful Laravel 6 days!

I constantly rotate physical games for my PS5.

I'm in the UK, and CeX is a great shop to trade in a game for store credit once I'm finished with it, then pickup whatever I want to play next. Most of the time I can completely cover the cost of the next game with the credit received from the trade, or use some store credit leftover from a previous visit!