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
This is a follow up post to the first in this mini series where I explore some of my favourite features in the upcoming PHP 8.5, coming in November. The first post explored the Pipe operator: PHP 8.5: Pipe OperatorPHP 8.5 is fast approaching. I wanted to
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
PHP 8.5 is fast approaching. I wanted to look at some of the features I'm most excited about. One of which is, the pipe operator. This makes it easier for developers who need to chain multiple callables who previously may have done something like this: $temp = "
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
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