2021 Year In Review
As has been my custom for the past eleven years, I like to spend a bit of time at the end of the year reflecting on the year that has been, looking ahead to the year that is to come, and noting down these reflections for...
December 31, 2021 · More →
Web Dev Advent 2021
In typical last minute fashion, I've decided to get into the festive spirit and do a "web development" advent newsletter this year. Each day of advent I'm going to highlighting a web development tool, tip, or app that I use or...
December 1, 2021 · More →
LaterMail
Last week I launched a new side project I've been working on for the last month or so, LaterMail. LaterMail gives your newsletter emails a dedicated space, outside of your inbox, where they can be read at your convenience,...
November 17, 2021 · More →
Enabling HTTPS (SSL) for Laravel Sail using Caddy
I've been using Laravel Sail since it launched and have loved the simple, Docker-based approach to running Laravel on my local machine. However, recently I ran across the issue that Laravel Sail doesn't support HTTPS (SSL). Under...
June 16, 2021 · More →
Using stripe-mock with Laravel
Recently, while building Lemon Squeezy I came across the issue of mocking Stripe classes in a Laravel application. If you've ever built any kind of billing system using Stripe in Laravel and want to test it (which you should)...
March 19, 2021 · More →
Big Sur iPhone Wallpaper
I’ve taken up digital drawing on Procreate recently. I’ve never been much of an artist but I’m finding it’s an enjoyable escape during lockdown. It's also a great way to discover my passion for beautiful wallpapers (if you don't...
February 5, 2021 · More →
2020 Year In Review
As has been my custom for the past ten years, I like to spend a bit of time at the end of the year reflecting on the year that has been, looking ahead to the year that is to come, and noting down these reflections for...
December 31, 2020 · More →
Making Lemonade
2020 has been a strange year, and not just because of all of the chaos of dealing with a global pandemic. In an unexpected turn of events, in March this year I was approached by Orman Clark (my old boss) about becoming a partner...
November 20, 2020 · More →
Saaze CMS
This site has been powered by many different CMS's over the years. Every so often I would get the urge to build a flat-file CMS in PHP and convert this blog over to whatever I'd built (e.g. Pico, Baun, etc). However, in the end,...
November 17, 2020 · More →
AJAX in WordPress Themes
For some reason, it seems really hard to find a nice, simple, copy-and-paste-able resource for explaining how to do AJAX requests in WordPress themes the-right-way™. So here it is. Backend Let's add the function that will return...
January 13, 2020 · More →