Laravel
August 26, 2024
Scheduling posts on a static site
My blog is a static website, built using Jigsaw, and deployed onto Netlify. Recently, I’ve started publishing a lot more posts. However, I don’t write these posts at exactly that cadence....
ReadJuly 12, 2024
Using React Hook Form with auto-generated API types
Following my post on generating a type-safe API client from your Laravel API, I wanted to share how I then use those auto-generated request types not just for making requests, but also for ensuring...
ReadJuly 9, 2024
Type-safe API calls with Laravel and TypeScript
Working at incident.io, I’ve really come to appreciate our auto-generated API client. Whenever we make changes to our API, we do so by making a change to the API spec (in Go), which is used to...
ReadOctober 6, 2022
Why we wrote a Kubernetes operator to generate random strings
Earlier this week, I attended KubeHuddle in Edinburgh. Conferences always provide motivation through all the ideas you develop from conversations with people. In talking to various platform engineers...
ReadJuly 8, 2022
Simplifying containers with Laravel Octane
Containers are all the rage these days, but containerising PHP applications has always felt a bit… clunky. In the past, it’s been a choice between complex networking but efficient resource use...
ReadJune 24, 2018
Adding custom claims to the Laravel Passport JWT
One of the advantages of using JSON Web Tokens as the transport for your authentication layer (such as OAuth) is that you can attach additional data in the form of public claims (see the relevant RFC...
ReadMarch 7, 2018
Debugging With Logs
When you develop your apps locally, you probably (hopefully) use something like Xdebug. However, how do you debug production and staging errors? The answer is logs. By sending log messages in...
ReadJanuary 22, 2018
Setting up Xdebug for Docker Development in PhpStorm
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Big thanks to Luke Waite who did most of the heavy lifting to figure this out over at Intouch.
Do you still throw in dd(), or var_dump() and die() in your...
November 10, 2017
Request and Response Logging with Laravel: Debug Heaven
Debugging. Don't you just hate it when someone tells you your API isn't working? "I get some internal error", "it says not found", "it says not authorised even when I use the JWT". Yeah, bugs suck,...
ReadMay 11, 2017
Dead Simple Docker Development with Laravel
After recently talking about Docker and Vagrant on an episode of Larachat Live, I realised it'd probably be nice with a short little guide on getting started with Docker environments in Laravel...
ReadMay 21, 2016
Making Spark Your Own
This article was originally posted on Medium by Ahad L. Amdani Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own...
ReadMay 14, 2016
A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark
Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own Laravel Spark comes with a lot of features built in, but how does...
ReadMay 10, 2016
The Spark Philosophy
Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own First of all, even though it's already been done earlier in the...
ReadMay 7, 2016
Spark Up What You Have
Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Introductory (Warning) Words “Should I integrate Spark?” Backup your database,...
ReadMay 1, 2016
Laravel Spark: A Crash Course
Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own Update (2017-05-12): I no longer endorse Spark to quite the same...
ReadOctober 9, 2015
Multi-tenancy in Laravel Spark
For those that aren't aware, Laravel Spark is a boilerplate for business-oriented SaaS applications, complete with two-factor authentication, subscription payments and teams. Something that is of...
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