Writing somewhat aimlessly about my (mis)adventures in software engineering and life.
This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to...
Read article arrow_forward2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to...
This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is...
I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
I came across this interesting article by @gregnavis the other day. I guess it's from a few years ago now, judging by...
This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back,...
I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I mentioned a few weeks ago, the situation is pretty bad right...
Aaron Francis is a rising star in the Laravel community. Over the past couple of years he's rocketed up because he's a genuinely thoughtful, intelligent and...
I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life gets in the way. I'm going to make a concerted effort to do...
I'm pretty proud of the Gitamic diff viewer. It's not perfect (and probably never will be thanks to different browser rendering engines), but it can handle...
I recently spent a little time on my Laravel Nova CSV Import package, one of my main open source packages. This came at the request of a sponsor. This gave...
Flicker I originally wrote this 1 year ago today but didn't publish it. Just a little flicker, That’s all it takes. Makes smaller and lighter Until it’s all...
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to...
I'm really frustrated with Twitter lately... I have developed an unhealthy reliance upon TwitterWhen I'm not on it, I'm thinking about it. When my...
You already know this. Unless you've been under a magically floating rock for a couple of weeks. Please go check it out: nativephp.com I'm still working on...
I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the...
I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free,...
Goldilocks Autonomy One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they...
4 Years In I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already! I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone by or the amazing things we’ve accomplished as a...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI for Mac and Windows. I was really lucky to be...