I design and develop web-based apps that solve real-world problems and are a joy to use. I’m currently part of a small team building an exciting end-to-end solution for the freight forwarding industry.
In my free time, I contribute to open-source and share helpful tips and insights in my blog below.
You can get in touch with me or reach out on Twitter.
I’m pleased to announce the immediate release of Weasyprint for Laravel, v5.
Browsers have caught up – developers should too.
Making resource classes just a bit easier to work with.
Using helpers and scopes in a trait, make the model responsible for determining its resource class.
Vue Routisan has a new life – a v3 alpha has been released for testing!
Seriously, it’s overkill, and much of what goes on can be replaced with observable objects.
A cleaner way to validate console input.
Some useful shell aliases for your development pleasure.
In the world of JavaScript modules, default exports are really a compatibility layer for CommonJS-of-old. Named exports solve problems may developers experience – this post explores them.
It’s not uncommon to follow the default approach and register global Vue components manually. But there’s a better way. Two of them, in fact. And we can do it for Vuex too, but that’s for another post.
Starting afresh in 2020, with a new blog, in a new decade.
Shorter code is great. Even shorter code is even better. In this post, you’ll learn how to drastically shorten the length of your Vuex mutations, making for some really clean code.
Since November 2017, I’ve been working with a small web-dev firm that uses Laravel for all its clients’ API backends. Over time, we’ve been taking new approaches to solving problems, and simplifying our code to make life easier in the long run. Here are some quick and useful tips we’ve been following as part of this process.
From Laravel 5.5, JSON responses are a little different. In particular, you’ll find that validation exceptions have changed, and it’s easy to miss what the upgrade guide says about it.
If you’re on Windows, chances are you don’t have a handy package like Valet to make your development-workflow easier. If you’re using a standard Apache installation, this might go a long way in speeding things up.
The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user. – Mitch Kapor
A collection of linkable things.
iTermocil 14 March 2021 Setup pre-configured layouts of windows and panes in iTerm2 – github.com Fuerte 14 March 2021 A strong password generator – makepass.dev Going deep on UUIDs and ULIDs 14 March 2021 Numeric identifiers are old. Long live numeric identifiers. – honeybadger.io Icônes 14 March 2021 All your icons are belong to us. – icones.js.org Plausible Analytics 14 March 2021 Simple web analytics tool. Time to toss Google Analytics. – plausible.io Public APIs 14 March 2021 A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development. – github.com Secure Passphrase Generator 14 March 2021 Memorable, secure passphases. Open-sourced. – untroubled.org The Olognion 14 March 2021 Exquisite tech news – theolognion.com The Ultimate Performance Checklist For Laravel Apps 14 March 2021 Laravel is fast out-of-the-box, but you can make it faster if you optimize your configurations and application code. – laravel-news.com What if we had Local-First Software? 14 March 2021 The path to an offline SaaS model – adlrocha.substack.com