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.
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We've all done it, committed to Git with a rouge dd() in our code, or perhaps some other function that's used for debugging. Fortunately, using PestPHP, there's a nice way of being able to catch these, so if you run tests as part of
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Well, what a brilliant surprise! I noticed that my Faker Stripe package was getting a lot of stars and it turns out, it was picked up and featured on Laravel News 🥳 You can read the full article here but I'm super happy it was picked up by what
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Making my own PHP package is something I've wanted to do for the longest time but there was 2 things stopping me: 1. My own confidence 2. Having an idea that's worthy of a package Fortunately, I've been working on the first point for
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Pint is a PHP CS fixer, built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer. It's a new 1st party package created by the Laravel team. It comes installed with any new Laravel installs, but for existing installs it can be installed via composer. I've recently been working
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July 12th 2022, was a glorious day for any fans of Ghost because after what feels like a lifetime, Ghost finally launched Search functionality native to the platform. Search has been the most requested Ghost feature since, well, forever! Folk in the past have come up with solutions to get
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On a project I've been working on recently at work, I needed a way of grabbing a list of "frequencies" in various places in my application, there's several ways I could've done this * Created a new database table, stored them in there
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One of my recent projects at work had me working with jobs and job dispatching in Laravel, these are things I've used many times before however up until now, I've never had to deal with jobs that might not need to be added to the chain
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I save a lot of stuff that helps me out with my work day to day, whether it be lists of things or maybe some IDs for something I need later, or SQL queries that I know I'll most likely need again in future... lots of stuff! Some
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As a Developer, Dependabot is fast becoming one of my favourite tools. It automatically scans your project dependencies and will create Pull Requests to keep them all up to date. I think of it as an extra member of my team, who's sole purpose is to keep an
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Ghost currently doesn't ship with Code Highlighting, you can render code but to get it to highlight correctly depending on the language, that's something you need to do yourself. There's numerous code highlighters you could use for this, but the one I've
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OctocatBot is one of the handful of Twitter bots I've built and like the other bots, it serves no real value and was only created out of curiosity and boredom! The idea behind the Bot is simple. Github operate myoctocat.com which allows anyone to create their own