Development
It'll save you a lot of time... Since starting work on the SaaS I've been helping with for around 18 months now, it's given me a lot of time to explore CI/CD and how to build a solid pipeline which means we can
Development
I've wanted to use Laravel Pulse for a while now but could never find the time to actually sit down and read through the documentation. From the bits I'd already read about it though, I could definitely see the use for it especially in some of
Development
Earlier this week I tagged v3.15 of Profanify! This release contains support for the Danish language which was added by Bertel Torp. If you don't know what Profanify is, it's a Profanity checker plugin for PestPHP and is just a composer install away! It'
AI
I decided to give Grok Studio a try over the past week as I'm always interested in trying out new AI tools and even though I'm a heavy user of X, I actually rarely use Grok. During my time using it, I discovered that it'
AI
The SaaS I'm currently building integrates with the OpenAI API to perform various tasks. I'd consider most of these tasks to be quite straight forward. We're not passing massive amounts of data to OpenAI and aren't getting much data back from OpenAI
Development
I'm currently working on a SaaS and early on in the development I decided to use the TALL stack. It's the stack I'm most comfortable with and I can do things quickly in. That said, I still suck at building things consistently, e.g.
Conferences
PHPUK 2025 earlier this year was my very first developer conference and I absolutely loved it. The talks were fantastic and the people I met and networked with between talks were super friendly. You can read my post conference blog post below: Jon PurvisHello! 👋 Welcome to my place on the
ElePHPants
This week I added PHPCon to my ElePHPant Herd! This one was available quite a while ago now at the PHP Conference in Japan way back in 2019! I traded with Sebastian Feldmann, the creator of CaptainHookPHP. If his name rings a bell, it might be because we traded last
Development
Whilst scrolling on Twitter earlier (yes, I still refuse to call it X), I stumbled across a Tweet by Gary Clarke: 🧑⚕️ A healthcheck endpoint is a simple API route that acts as a service’s heartbeat, showing if it’s alive & healthy. The Laravel Microservice course is released on
Packages
It's been a while since I've created a new package, so I'd like to introduce you to Squeaky! A Laravel validation rule to help catch profanity. You can check out the repo below, which includes instructions on how to set it up and some
Packages
It's been a while since I've made any updates to Lawman but I've had an open issue lingering for quite some time (one I opened myself) for making the testing of properties a bit better, so this afternoon I decided to tackle it! Let&
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