30th December 2020 5:00 pm

Back when I used to work with Django, I read the book Lightweight Django , and it completely changed the way I thought about building web…

28th September 2020 2:50 pm

I maintain a custom PHP legacy CMS for a client, and have also been building a micro-CMS as a learning project, so I've spent quite a lot of…

13th June 2020 12:50 pm

I'm a big fan of type systems in general. Using Psalm to find missing type declarations and incorrect calls in PHP has helped me out…

11th March 2020 9:20 pm

A couple of years ago I posted this article about constructing a caching user provider for Laravel. It worked, but with the benefit of…

12th February 2020 10:40 pm

I've always been a big fan in general of tools that provide feedback about the quality of my code. The development role in which I spent the…