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Creating Happiness Out Of Sadness

January 3, 2020

A story on how I made the Happy Dev podcast after suffering a huge personal loss.

Localized Date Time Casting In Laravel

June 7, 2020

In my newest side-project, Cronbox, users create a new monitor that is used to track whether a cron is running on time or not. One of the requirements of this is that the cron schedule is configured...

Tinkerwell Giveaway

February 6, 2020

Tinkerwell is the magical code editor that runs your code within local and remote PHP applications, and it's fast become one of my daily productivity tools. I use Tinkerwell all the time for testing...

Automatic Publishing With Jigsaw, Netlify and GitHub Actions

January 21, 2020

When I first setup this blog (just a couple of weeks back) I was using a combination of; Tighten Jigsaw, GitHub Actions & Pages. That setup allowed me to initially get my blog up and running very...

Implementing RICE in Trello

January 12, 2020

At Laravel we use Trello to store all of the ideas we come up with and also any suggestions that are sent to us. Recently, Taylor shared an article about RICE with the team and we could immediately...

Podcasting With GarageBand

January 6, 2020

I record, edit and produce all of my Happy Dev podcast using GarageBand, which is a free app from Apple. There are many other alternatives available, but I chose GarageBand for its balance between...

Tighten's Jigsaw, GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions

January 1, 2020

This blog is powered by Tighten's Jigsaw project, which if you're thinking about starting your own blog, I can highly recommend! Since Jigsaw generates a static website, I chose to host it with...