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Thoughts

Build your own software

27th March 2025 • 2 min read

CSS

Preventing scrollbar layout shifts

21st March 2025 • 1 min read

PHP

Rusty string formatting in PHP

20th March 2025 • 3 min read

PHP

Registering global arguments and options in Laravel Zero

18th March 2025 • 2 min read

Insights

Saying Goodbye to PXP

13th March 2025 • 3 min read

PHP

Goto, or not to goto go

03rd March 2025 • 2 min read

Insights

Don't Subscribe to Complexity

07th February 2025 • 3 min read

Insights

2024: A year in review

28th December 2024 • 4 min read

Insights

Adding dark mode to my website

05th November 2024 • 1 min read

PHP

Fast and powerful syntax highlighting in PHP with Phiki

19th October 2024 • 4 min read

Laravel

Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content

17th October 2024 • 4 min read

Insights

Revitalising my site for 2025

14th October 2024 • 3 min read

Rust / Rebuilding Composer in Rust

Setting up the command-line interface (Rebuilding Composer in Rust)

26th May 2024 • 3 min read

Rust / Rebuilding Composer in Rust

Downloading files from the web (Rebuilding Composer in Rust)

26th May 2024 • 6 min read

Rust / Rebuilding Composer in Rust

Fetching package information from Packagist (Rebuilding Composer in Rust)

26th May 2024 • 3 min read

Laravel

Fun with Blade directives

16th May 2024 • 6 min read

Tips & Tricks

Some cool SQLite things

14th May 2024 • 3 min read

Laravel

Using Bunny Fonts in Laravel

02nd May 2024 • 2 min read

Tips & Tricks

Disabling Composer's default timeout inside of scripts

12th April 2024 • 1 min read

Rust

Enums in Rust

02nd March 2024 • 5 min read

Laravel

Preserve uploaded file names in Laravel

09th February 2024 • 1 min read

JavaScript

Get a random element from a JavaScript array

22nd January 2024 • 1 min read

General

What are UTM tags?

08th January 2024 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

My Favourite Alpine.js Plugins

07th January 2024 • 2 min read

Tips & Tricks

Removing Icons from Table Actions in Filament

04th January 2024 • 2 min read

Insights

2023: A year in review

31st December 2023 • 5 min read

Tips & Tricks

How to find your php.ini file

08th November 2023 • 2 min read

Tips & Tricks

Autocomplete Tailwind Classes inside of Blade Class Directives

04th October 2023 • 1 min read

Livewire

Scroll to the First Error Message with Livewire 3.x

18th September 2023 • 2 min read

PHP

Understanding Serialisation in PHP

16th August 2023 • 3 min read

PHP

Build Your Own Template Engine in PHP - Rendering & Echo

14th June 2023 • 4 min read

PHP

Write a Lexer in PHP with Lexical

07th June 2023 • 3 min read

PHP

Build Your Own Service Container in PHP - Minimal Container

27th May 2023 • 4 min read

PHP

Let's Write an Esolang in PHP

12th May 2023 • 4 min read

Insights

PXP Progress Report #1

27th April 2023 • 3 min read

Tips & Tricks

Automatically running commands in Visual Studio Code projects

24th March 2023 • 1 min read

CSS

Applying a Colored Overlay to a Background Image

20th March 2023 • 1 min read

PHP

Blazingly Fast Markdown Parsing in PHP using FFI and Rust

13th March 2023 • 4 min read

Tips & Tricks

Disabling Composer's script process timeout

31st January 2023 • 1 min read

PHP

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Basic Rules

27th January 2023 • 2 min read

PHP

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Rules

26th January 2023 • 4 min read

PHP

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Definitions

25th January 2023 • 14 min read

PHP

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Overview

23rd January 2023 • 10 min read

PHP

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Setup

23rd January 2023 • 3 min read

General

2022: A year in review

16th December 2022 • 3 min read

PHP

4 things I'd like to see in a future version of PHP

07th December 2022 • 9 min read

Laravel

Caching chunks of your Blade templates

10th November 2022 • 2 min read

Laravel

Adding feature flags to your Laravel project

12th October 2022 • 3 min read

Laravel

Building a custom color palette field in Filament - Part 3

06th October 2022 • 3 min read

Laravel

Building a custom color palette field in Filament - Part 2

05th October 2022 • 3 min read

Laravel

Building a custom color palette field in Filament - Part 1

04th October 2022 • 3 min read

Laravel

Building a custom color palette field in Filament - Part 0

03rd October 2022 • 1 min read

Laravel

Building a custom Filament view component

23rd September 2022 • 1 min read

Programming Languages

Compiling PHP's conditional statements to Rust

01st August 2022 • 12 min read

Programming Languages

Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust

31st July 2022 • 11 min read

Laravel

Macros in Laravel

27th June 2022 • 3 min read

Laravel

Adding "Suggested Posts" to My Laravel Blog

17th June 2022 • 6 min read

Alpine.js

Creating Dynamic HTML Tooltips with Alpine and alpine-tooltip

23rd May 2022 • 3 min read

Tips & Tricks

Bookmarklets You Should Definitely Be Using

11th May 2022 • 2 min read

Uncategorized

2021: A year in review

30th December 2021 • 4 min read

Programming Languages

Baby's First Virtual Machine

25th October 2021 • 8 min read

PHP

Creating an `Option` Type in PHP

22nd September 2021 • 7 min read

PHP

Declaring Expectations Against Array Items in Pest

17th September 2021 • 3 min read

PHP

All About Match Expressions

28th August 2021 • 7 min read

Laravel

Laravel Seeders on Steroids

12th August 2021 • 4 min read

Laravel

Delete All Rows for a Laravel Model

20th July 2021 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

How to Watch Alpine Stores for Changes

08th July 2021 • 1 min read

JavaScript

The Magic Behind Reactivity - Effects

18th June 2021 • 6 min read

JavaScript

The Magic Behind Reactivity - Proxies

18th June 2021 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

Alpine 3.x Tips and Tricks

11th May 2021 • 4 min read

Uncategorized

Storing Laravel Users on Disk in Flat-Files

28th March 2021 • 3 min read

Uncategorized

How to Schedule Artisan Commands from Your Laravel Package

21st March 2021 • 1 min read

Livewire

Validating Laravel Console Input

02nd March 2021 • 1 min read

Uncategorized

Flashing Banner Messages in Your Laravel Jetstream and Livewire Applications

15th February 2021 • 3 min read

Tips & Tricks

How to Customise the Logo in Your Laravel Jetstream Application

14th February 2021 • 2 min read

Insights

How Puny Works under the Hood: The Basics

05th February 2021 • 6 min read

Tips & Tricks

Deploy an AWS Lambda Function from the Terminal

02nd February 2021 • 2 min read

Tips & Tricks

Execute an AWS Lambda Function from the Terminal

28th January 2021 • 2 min read

Uncategorized

Learn Go by Building an Uptime Checker: Getting Started

26th January 2021 • 4 min read

Tailwind CSS

3 Simple Tailwind CSS Tips and Tricks

24th January 2021 • 3 min read

Tips & Tricks

3 Simple Alpine.js Tips and Tricks

18th January 2021 • 2 min read

Tips & Tricks

5 Simple Laravel Tips and Tricks

17th January 2021 • 4 min read

PHP

Highlight Laravel Blade Templates with Highlight.php

08th January 2021 • 4 min read

Tooling

Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet

07th January 2021 • 2 min read

Uncategorized

2020: A year in review

23rd December 2020 • 8 min read

PHP

Parsing Markdown with PHP: Autolinking and Strikethrough

09th November 2020 • 4 min read

PHP

Parsing Markdown with PHP: Getting Started

07th November 2020 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

Build a Remaining Character Count Component with Alpine.js

29th October 2020 • 4 min read

Uncategorized

Unconventional Laravel: Responsable classes

22nd October 2020 • 7 min read

Laravel

Unconventional Laravel: Middleware-as-a-Service-Provider

29th September 2020 • 5 min read

GitHub Actions

Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages

29th September 2020 • 1 min read

Laravel

Unconventional Laravel: Custom Pipeline Classes

15th September 2020 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

Writing Reusable Alpine Components

30th August 2020 • 7 min read

Livewire

Accessing Helper Methods in Your Livewire Components

24th August 2020 • 2 min read

Alpine.js

Creating Custom Magic Variables in Alpine.js

23rd August 2020 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

Replicating `$.slideToggle` with Tailwind CSS & Alpine.js

08th August 2020 • 4 min read

Laravel

Unconventional Laravel: Route groups and `$router`

13th July 2020 • 2 min read

Laravel

Unconventional Laravel: Synchronous jobs for reusability

05th July 2020 • 4 min read

Laravel

Unconventional Laravel: Auto-validating models

02nd July 2020 • 1 min read

Laravel

Add Classes to Active Link in Laravel

29th June 2020 • 3 min read

Laravel

Share Data With Your Frontend in Laravel

26th June 2020 • 3 min read

Livewire

Manually Refreshing a Livewire Component

10th June 2020 • 1 min read

Uncategorized

Clearer Time Values with Carbon

08th June 2020 • 2 min read

Uncategorized

Generate an Array of Dates Using Carbon

02nd June 2020 • 1 min read

Laravel

Simple Repositories in Laravel

24th May 2020 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

Directive precedence in Alpine

19th May 2020 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

Hiding elements until Alpine loads with `x-cloak`

15th May 2020 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

Maintainable Alpine Components

15th May 2020 • 6 min read

Laravel

Track Your Users Last Activity in Laravel

23rd April 2020 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

An Alternative Approach to Computed Properties in Alpine.js

20th April 2020 • 3 min read

Alpine.js

Anonymous Alpine Components

18th April 2020 • 4 min read

Alpine.js

Pseudo Computed Properties in Alpine

15th April 2020 • 3 min read

Uncategorized

Get an Array of Unique Values in JavaScript

07th April 2020 • 3 min read

Laravel

Prevent Updating or Saving of Laravel Models

31st March 2020 • 1 min read

Alpine.js

What is Alpine.js?

28th March 2020 • 3 min read