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
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.
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&
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