Sometimes You Don't Need A Dependency
When developing new features it is all too easy to go immediately to packagist.org and see if that wheel has already been invented. Most of the time this is the right approach. We don't need new...
Livewire Testing: Undefined array key "fingerprint" Error
Recently I've been using Filament CMS quite a lot. It makes use of Livewire through out and as with any new technology I've been exploring what it can do. While writing a component test I ran...
Completely Hiding The Wordpress Version Is Hard
We develop and maintain a couple of WordPress sites. There are a number of things we will do as standard to secure each site. One of these is running WPScan. It checks for all kinds of things but...
Automatically Find The Best Image Compression
Recently I was tweaking the default quality values used to compress images on one of our sites. The quality value is a number between 0 and 100. 100 produces a large file size and has high...
Data Transfer Objects In PHP 8
Data transfer objects (DTOs for short) are simple PHP classes which have one job: Store some data. Until recently the spatie/data-transfer-object package was our go-to when creating DTOs. This...
Keeping Up With Web Dev
The internet moves fast. New libraries, new tools, major updates to existing tools, security vulnerabilites etc. To keep up with this we created a #learning channel in Slack. This serves two...
Asking for help
Sometime back in the summer just gone, I got a bit stuck. I’d been running this business for something like eight years, and somehow I’d lost track of where we were going. A lot of things that...
Testing With Laravel In Maintenance Mode
It is standard in our projects to include simple routes which are used to signify if the application is alive and working. They are primarily polled by Kubernetes liveness probes. The tests are...