Notes on Laravel, building software, and life away from the keyboard.
Why I built CloudPost to give ChatGPT access to my iCloud Mail, make sense of a noisy inbox, and help me unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters without creating another copy of my mailbox.
Sudoku, meet Minesweeper. A berry-themed logic puzzle game, now live on the App Store.
Here are ten things I learnt about public speaking.
Enhance Laravel’s rate limiting by using Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block excessive requests at the edge, reducing server load and improving API performance.
Looking back over 2024.
A poem I wrote shortly after the passing of my brother and the birth of my first child.
I bought a .new domain to simplify tweeting—say hello to tweet.new, your shortcut to posting faster on X!
Watch my Documenting Laravel APIs talk from Laracon AU.
In October 2023, I updated the Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet to Nuxt 3.x. Along with several other changes, I wanted to add a new feature to the site, an API.
Did you know macOS has a built-in alternative to Caffeine? It’s called caffeinate and it’s awesome.
Watch my Documenting Laravel APIs talk from Laracon AU.
A review of the Three Peaks GBR Commuter 22L backpack
Here’s how I alias Git commands and increase my productivity.
Let’s take a look into Laravel’s "about" command and how we can extend it to add our own application / package information.
With 2022 already being all but a distant memory, I thought it’d be nice to look back at the last year and reflect on the year long journey.
Updates that break Homebrew happen so frequently and I forget how to solve it, that I’ve finally caved and documented it.
Introducing PHP Stoke, a meetup for PHP developers in Stoke-on-Trent.
Laravel’s Envoyer service allows you to break up your deployment process into multiple steps, which makes it really easy to manage deployments. Envoyer runs each step individually, checking the exit code of the last command within the step. Because each deployment step is Bash, if it’s a non-zero exit code then it gets reported back as a failure.
Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new GitHub Action for Laravel Forge deployments.
We've shipped an enhancement to Laravel Forge that stores the ID of the user who initiated an event.
I've been testing out the new Laravel Spark package before it gets launched and implemented it into my new side project (more details coming soon).
Over Christmas I started tinkering with a little project to learn about some of the emerging technologies and frameworks that I don't have a chance to play with day to day. For this project, I've been using Jetstream 2 and Inertia.js, which I've loved! I'd like to write a bit more about these when I get chance.
Introducing the Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet, a bookmarkable and shareable resource for all Laravel's default artisan commands. The source code for this resource is available on GitHub
How to configure Laravel Forge’s database backups with Alibaba OSS.
I recap on what happened over the year of 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 about it before today!
At Laravel we use Trello to store all of the ideas we come up with and also any suggestions that are sent to us.
On the 30th October 2019, I launched Happy Dev a podcast in which I interview software developers and we discuss mental health.
This week I’m back working on Laravel Nova, which includes working my way through the nova-issues repo and seeing what’s what.
How to configure Tighten Jigsaw to deploy to GitHub Pages with a custom GitHub Action.
We’re about to enter a new decade, so let’s start it with a new blog.
How we implemented Laravel 4’s Queue Component in our CRM system for improved email handling and UI responsiveness.