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
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
Development
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
Development
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
Development
This week, I've been working on getting Laravel Telescope working with SaloonPHP. This was previously doable using the SaloonPHP HTTP Client Sender package but we recently decided to abandon this package and instead build the functionality into the Laravel plugin. If you still require saloonphp/laravel-http-sender in your
Development
I've been using SaloonPHP for a while and one of the things I've always wanted to improve is when it comes to selecting the integration you want to add a connector, request, plugin etc to. This was a manual typing job and the amount of times
Development
I'm super proud to announce that Profanify, my Profanity checker for PestPHP, has been added to the core of PestPHP for V4! This isn't something I ever planned on happening, but back in April I got a DM fron Nuno Maduro on Twitter, which then turned
Development
One of my favourite features of PestPHP is the parallel execution, it makes running test suites so much quicker. I'm so happy when I found out that the feature now also exists for Pint. Now, Pint has always ran pretty quick, but if something can make it even
Development
I'm happy to announce that V5 of Faker Stripe has been released! I love working on this package because whilst it may be simple, it's proved its use over the years when working with the Stripe API! It was also one of my first foray into
Conferences
Earlier in week, I headed down to London for Laravel Live 2025. This was the conference I've been looking forward to since the tickets first went on sale, and honestly, the lineup did not disappoint. It's also worth mentioning that this was my very first Laravel
Development
Jetbrains has recently announced that it's hosting an event called PHPVerse on June 17th, and it's a free virtual event to celebrate 30 years of PHP! It falls on a Tuesday, so hopefully I can watch the stream during work. If not, I'm sure
AI
This week, well, mostly today, I've been playing around with Junie for PHPStorm and you know what? It's actually pretty good! I've been waiting for a while for PHP support and I saw on Twitter (sorry, I forgot who Tweeted about it!) that they&
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