I am a full stack Laravel developer based 20 minutes outside of London, UK, with a passion for crafting custom software and exceptional user experiences since 2009. This blog details my continuous learning, journey, challenges, and solutions.
Integrating with external APIs is a common task for a developer, but it can quickly become a hard to maintain mess! I’ve often found myself repeating the same boilerplate code across different projects—manually setting up headers, handling authentication, and formatting responses for every single endpoint.
One of the biggest hurdles in migrating a legacy site is the users database. You want to move to Laravel, but you don't want to force every single user to reset their password the moment you go live. Here's how you can achieve this when migrating from WordPress!
Kubernetes can be confusing and creating service accounts for deployment is no exception. In this quick guide, I show you how to create an authenticated service account for deploying to Kubernetes!
Learn how to implement robust authentication using pre-shared keys and HMAC signatures to protect your webhook endpoints.
Sometimes, the standard Heroicon set just isn't enough. Here's how you can quickly and easily add additional vectors to your Laravel FilamentPHP project
Laravel is an excellent framework that supports multilingual functionality out of the box - but it doesn't go as far as setting up the routing for you. Here's how you can achieve it with simple routing and middleware.
If you're working on your responsive game, this tiny tooltip trick might be of use to you!
The state machine pattern isn't something you often hear about, but its critical to almost every piece of technology you experience in every day life
Interfaces - often known as contracts - felt like a big leap in the early days of programming. But it's good to know - they're not that scary!