Conferences
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of heading down to London to attend the PHPUK 2025 Conference at The Brewery! It was the first conference I'd ever been to and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd recommend everyone tries going to a conference at least once in
Packages
I'm happy to announce that Profanify now has support for the Dutch language, thanks to Stanley Kinkelaar! Dutch means that Profanify now supports 5 languages, with plenty more to go! Support is available for: * English * Italian * Arabic * Portuguese * Dutch If you don't know what Profanify is,
Development
The SaaS I'm helping build does a lot with Google API's. In fact, it currently works with 5 different APIs and ~15 endpoints. One of the issues that kept cropping up was us getting a 503 Service Unavailable response, more times than not. The timing wasn&
Development
This week I decided to upgrade the SaaS product I'm helping build from PHP8.3 to PHP8.4. I'm not a huge fan of upgrading straight away, but I also didn't want to fall behind and given it's been out since November
Development
This post is inspired from a Tweet Christoph Rumpel put out earlier today and it got me thinking about the work I did last year to ensure one of our systems at work could handle massive files that we'd get from Stripe: What are your best practices for
Development
Every month at work, we have a Tech All Hands, where our engineers get together and listen to ~60 minutes of talks ranging from what people have been working on recently, to what's coming in the future, to cool tools that people have been working with. Each speaker
Development
I recently had a reason to dive into Laravel Cashier when it came time to start working on billing for the SaaS I'm currently helping out on. I'd heard of Laravel Cashier before but didn't really have any use for it until now, so
Development
Sentry have a pretty cool challenge running for December called Debug December, where every day, you can complete a code challenge for a chance to win prizes along the way. Your task is to help the Yeti climb the mountain by lighting up the path by completing a challenge each
General
More and more companies these days are jumping on the "let's create an amazing screen for Black Friday/Cyber Monday" bandwagon and this year, there was a couple of really amazing screens. I want to highlight a couple. My absolute favourite was the one Shopify created.
Development
Earlier this week, Ondřej Mirtes creator of PHPStan released PHPStan 2.0 🥳 PHPStan 2.0 Released With Level 10 and Elephpants!PHPStan PHPStan is one of my absolute favourite PHP tools and has saved me so many times by highlighting issues that I just didn't think about when
General
Something I've been thinking about this week is what matters to me when I sign up for a new SaaS, the thought came from a Tweet Jack Ellis, of Fathom Analytics put out earlier this week: When you sign up for a SaaS, do you care if it&
Development
If you've seen my previous posts, you may know that I'm currently helping out on a SaaS product. I chose Laravel Forge as the server provisioning tool because the less time I spend messing around with servers, the more time I can spend building the actual