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'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.
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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
Development
Every month at work, we have a Tech All Hands, where our engineers get together and listen to ~60 minutes of talks ranging from what people have been working on recently, to what's coming in the future, to cool tools that people have been working with. Each speaker
Development
I recently had a reason to dive into Laravel Cashier when it came time to start working on billing for the SaaS I'm currently helping out on. I'd heard of Laravel Cashier before but didn't really have any use for it until now, so
Development
Sentry have a pretty cool challenge running for December called Debug December, where every day, you can complete a code challenge for a chance to win prizes along the way. Your task is to help the Yeti climb the mountain by lighting up the path by completing a challenge each
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Earlier this week, Ondřej Mirtes creator of PHPStan released PHPStan 2.0 🥳 PHPStan 2.0 Released With Level 10 and Elephpants!PHPStan PHPStan is one of my absolute favourite PHP tools and has saved me so many times by highlighting issues that I just didn't think about when