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.
Development
Last month, we received a report from a security researcher via our helpdesk that one of our apps was susceptible to XSS attacks. The report was on a weekend, but given the urgent nature (and the fact I wasn't doing much), I got to work on fixing it.
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I've been on a bit of a security drive recently, what with all of the recent supply chain attacks happening in the NPM and Composer worlds. Laravel recently unveiled a new package called Moat, which reviews the security of your GitHub organisations and repositories. Whilst controls for these
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We hit a bit of a bug in a couple of our Shopify Apps this week. We use Laravel Pulse and realised that for a couple of them, the dashboard was completely empty. This meant that we weren't getting alerts for issues including stuck jobs and other things
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In Some ways of speeding up your tests I mentioned about using PCOV as an alternate for Xdebug for code coverage. Xdebug is fantastic, but it can be quite slow, which means when you're running your tests in a CI/CD environment, your pipelines can start to get
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I recently announced that I've became a maintainer for the Laravel Shopify package: I’m now a maintainer for Laravel ShopifyI’m excited to announce that I’m now a maintainer for the Laravel Shopify package. This is a package that I’m using heavily at work so
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I'm excited to announce that I'm now a maintainer for the Laravel Shopify package. This is a package that I'm using heavily at work so I have a vested interest in ensuring it lives on. I've already worked on a couple of
Development
One of the Shopify Apps I've been working on recently uses PrismPHP. PrismPHP forms some of the foundation of the Laravel AI SDK which we hope to switch to at some point however for most of the development of our app, the Laravel AI SDK required a PHP84
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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
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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