A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
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A few weeks back, I woke up to a text from my good friend Sam Carré who I co-maintain SaloonPHP with. He'd received an email overnight from a security researcher who claimed to have found 3 security vulnerabilities with SaloonPHP. Both our first thoughts was that it was
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Over the last couple of years, I've been using and contributing to https://elephpant.me/ which is a website for collectors of PHP Elephpants to manage their collections and find new trade partners. After over a year of inactivity on the repository as a whole, I reached out
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February is a month I look forward to because it’s time to head down to London for PHPUK! I learnt my mistake from last year where I did the whole trip in one day and decided this year, to travel down the evening before and stay in the nearby
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I've been using Laravel Cloud for a bit now to test whether it's a good fit for our Shopify Apps. Overall it's an amazing product and based on our usage it will do what we need! There's a couple of things I&
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This week I took the Laravel AI SDK for a spin! It hasn't officially released yet, I think that'll be coming at Laracon, but it's on Github and available to pull down into a project so I did just that! The Laravel AI SDK
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I'm a big fan of Livewire, the SaaS I've been building for the last couple of years has been using Livewire since its inception! I recently updated it to Livewire 4 and wanted to talk about a few of the new features and functionality it adds.
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At work, I've been focusing on getting the test suites for our various Shopify apps running quicker. The biggest gain was switching our CI/CD pipelines to use Pest Parallel testing, but our runners only have 2 processes so although they are quicker now, it's only
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For our Shopify Apps at work, we have a fantastic PHP test suite for each one, using PestPHP to power them and we maintain 90% coverage. One of the gaps though is Javascript testing. We've had a couple of issues come up recently that no Pest test would
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At Laravel Live last year, I got to watch a talk by Dan Johnson who showed his incredible package, Pinout. Laravel Pinout allows you to control hardware via a Laravel application and I knew as soon as the talk finished, I'd have to try it out! I ended
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If you're writing tests for your application, you've probably came across tests that both pass and fail. These are known as flaky tests and can be quite hard to track down, especially if they only fail 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 times. Flaky tests
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One of the many things I've been working on lately is adding Leaky Bucket to the SaloonPHP Rate Limit Plugin. This request actually came in via a Github issue, but (maybe selfishly) I actually saw a use case for one of my own applications, so I set to
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I've seen a bunch of stuff on Twitter recently about developer certifications, specifically Laravel certifications. Of course, a couple of years ago, Taylor Otwell announced the end of the partnership with the "Laravel Certification Program". At the beginning of this year, we discontinued our official partnership