Recently, I ran in to some funky issues with Windows on my PC. My instant thought was “Oh god, another reinstall” but luckily, that wasn’t the case. Thankfully Microsoft knows how unreliable Windows can be, so with Windows 10 you…
How To Use UUIDs Instead of Numeric IDs in Laravel 7
There are many reasons you may wish to use a UUID instead of a numerical ID in your Laravel 7 project, and in this post I will document the process for doing so. First, you’ll want to update any migrations…
How To Force Your iPhone on EE To Connect via IPv4 in 2020
Over the past few months or however long its been happening, EE have been transitioning their network over to IPv6-first. This is great, as IPv6 is the future but the problem is that they don’t gracefully handle IPv4-only resources. They…
Smaller Customers Matter
I’ve always thought, you can tell how much a company cares by how they treat their smallest customer.
How To Stop All Docker Containers
Have you ever wanted to stop all Docker containers running on your machine? Well, today is your lucky day! The following command is all you need to stop all containers! That’s it! That will stop them all and you can…
How To Use UUIDs Instead of Numeric IDs in Laravel 6
There are many reasons you may wish to use a UUID instead of a numerical ID in your Laravel 6 project, and in this post I will document the process for doing so. First, you’ll want to update any migrations…
2019. A Year In Review.
A new tradition I’m starting is writing about what has changed over the course of the last year, and looking at what I hope to achieve over the course of the next year. This whole thing seems rather odd, to…
Laravel Facades Suck
Ok this one might be a bit controversial, but I feel this needs to be said. Facades seem like a weird middleman that just doesn’t add anything useful. Here’s why. I work with a lot of PHP SDKs on a…
Nobody Cares What Tech You Use
I see debates raging online all the time about using the latest and greatest technology. Usually the debates at some point slag off older languages over the “new hotness”. I’m writing a short, ranty post I feel needs to be…
Shipping My Second Package
Today I’m publishing my second PHP package / library very early on. This one isn’t intended to be a full system integration or anything like my last one, but rather just a collection of helpful functions I use day in…