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• Browser Extensions: Self-hosted updates

  2021-05-31

  I’m currently developing a paid-for browser extension that will run on both Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browsers. I’ll write more about this (very-involved!) process soon. But in the last couple of days, I just made the decision to self-host updates for the Firefox version rather than host it on addons.mozilla.org. This post details the steps to […]

• Tech Notes: Laravel hasOneThrough / belongsToThrough confusion

  2021-05-27

  How I found out that I wanted belongsToThrough, not hasOneThrough in Laravel Eloquent, and why it doesn't exist.

• Sunday morning links

  2021-05-02

  A bunch of links I've added to my pinboard including tech, WordPress, Laravel, family, and creativity.

• We need a common visual language for block editing

  2021-04-18

  Blocks are a new paradigm. They need complex new user interfaces. And we don't have a common visual language for them.

• Mini Project: Tweet Finder – Twitter Advanced Search

  2021-04-12

  How and why I made a simple interface for Twitter's advanced search.

• Tech Notes: Laravel Livewire – testing object/model properties of components

  2021-04-12

  A quick tip for testing Laravel Livewire components with object/model properties.

• Idea: CSS-only spam prevention with a simple allow-list and CAPTCHA

  2021-03-26

  An idea for a CSS-only spam prevention system that uses a white list and simple CAPTCHA, complete with WordPress plugin code.

• Getting to grips with Docker and Laravel Sail (on Apple Silicon/M1)

  2021-03-02

  So I wanted to have a play with Laravel Breeze and Jetstream. In doing so I noticed that the instructions for Breeze (and for Laravel in general) suggest a Docker-based Laravel Sail install by default. I had not looked into Docker despite a lot of hype around it recently in my tech world. So I […]