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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.

Reviewing One Year At Laravel

July 29, 2020

This is crazy to say, but today marks my first anniversary at Laravel! I'd been thinking about all the things that I've worked on and achieved whilst at Laravel, and I thought it'd be fun to look...

Laravel Localization Case Tips

July 15, 2020

Here is a little tip for Laravel's Localization that I discovered today whilst looking through the open Laravel Nova issues. Although it's documented it's not well known - at least, I didn't know...

Nova: Customisable Resource Fields

July 14, 2020

This week I'm back working on Laravel Nova, which includes working my way through the nova-issues repo and seeing what's what. One issue that caught my eye was a feature request from @Grayda,...

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...