Blog Archive

A yearly archive of all the blog posts

2025 (1)

Mar 30 The ThinkPad cult

2024 (19)

Dec 31 2024 was a year

Dec 03 I made a game

Nov 27 Make a game

Nov 21 The Strava kerfuffle

Nov 07 Svelte 5 $state rune Class vs Object reactivity

Aug 06 Hello hobby, my old friend

Jul 22 Namecheap ain't so cheap

Jul 10 How I work in an async team

Jul 05 This app could have been a spreadsheet

Jun 20 Be a content consumer for once

Apr 05 I hate side quests

Mar 23 The ultimate PHP RSS feed parser library

Mar 19 How to upgrade a Ubuntu server from 20.04 to 22.04

Mar 17 Top games of 2023

Mar 16 Apple Migration Assistant on the Mac in 2024

Feb 02 2024 site refresh

Jan 23 The year of SQLite

Jan 19 Negativity

Jan 12 Delete the blog or refresh it?

2023 (14)

Dec 31 Reflecting on 2023

Dec 22 How to find the owner of a lost GoPro

Oct 05 AQI Desktop - a NativePHP app

Sep 12 CSV import with Laravel building blocks - Part 2

Sep 08 CSV import with Laravel building blocks - Part 1

Mar 20 Best Remote Laravel Job Sites in 2023

Mar 06 React Hooks in Svelte

Feb 14 GeoJSON Resources

Feb 13 Seismic - Desktop Taskbar App for USGS Earthquake Tracking

Feb 01 How to Integrate Mastodon Replies in a Laravel Jigsaw Blog With VueJS

Jan 27 Setting up an LG UltraFine 27UN850-W Monitor on Mac and Mini-Review

Jan 26 10-Year Website for Less Than $100

Jan 25 My 2023 Programming Stack

Jan 06 Must-have Laravel & PHP Packages

2022 (8)

Dec 31 Reflecting on 2022

Aug 25 How to Build Desktop Apps with Tauri and PHP

Jun 25 Notes on Upgrading a Legacy PHP 5.X Project to a Modern Stack in 2022

Jun 08 Refactor Laravel Eloquent Query Conditions to a Trait

May 21 Enable Experimental JS and CSS Features in Electron

Apr 17 Carbon PHP Practical Examples

Mar 30 How to Use MySQL CTE in Laravel to Group by Year and Month with Gaps

Mar 26 How to Use MySQL CTE to Group by Year and Month with Gaps

2021 (16)

Dec 31 Reflecting on 2021

Dec 29 Creating a Svelte, Vite, and TailwindCSS 3 Template

Dec 09 My 2022 Programming Stack

Sep 01 Laracon Summer 2021 Links

Jul 11 A possible Laravel-Strava webhook solution

Jul 05 How to restore a corrupted PHP environment on M1 Mac

May 26 My PHP Forked Package Workflow

Apr 27 The Dynamic Svelte Component Router Pattern

Apr 12 SvelteKit with TailwindCSS and JIT

Mar 28 How to Verify a PGP Signature on Windows 10

Mar 24 How to Permanently Store Settings in a Svelte + Electron App

Mar 14 How to Deploy Svelte to Netlify

Mar 05 Upgrade PHP 7.4 to 8.0 on Ubuntu

Feb 20 Ode to the Mac

Feb 16 SVGX Launched on Product Hunt

Feb 12 How to Toggle a Menu Item Dynamically in Electron

2020 (20)

Dec 31 Reflecting on 2020

Dec 23 Gitware - A New Software Distribution Model

Nov 03 My First Side Project - BankAlt.com

Oct 20 How to Create Dynamic Charts with Laravel Livewire and ApexCharts

Oct 09 How to Generate Mac and Windows Icons for an Electron Forge App

Sep 25 How to Export Environment Variables on Mac and Windows

Jul 31 Developer review - 2015 15" MacBook Pro vs 2019 16" MacBook Pro

Jun 30 More of the Physical, Less of the Cerebral

May 26 2020 Developer Podcasts

May 03 Getting Started with Cloudinary

Apr 19 Svelte - Persist State to localStorage

Apr 12 How to Install a Windows 10 VM on a Mac

Mar 28 Build an SVG Icon Component with Laravel 7

Mar 19 Build an edit in place component with Livewire & Alpine.js

Mar 15 Automate the Laravel 6 -> 7 Upgrade with PHPStorm

Mar 10 How to Add an Unsplash or Custom Hero Image to a Jigsaw Article

Mar 05 2020 Tech Radar

Feb 10 Fun at the Laravel Console

Jan 30 How to Reboot Your Developer Career

Jan 03 Build a Dynamic Sign Up Form With Alpine.js

2019 (38)

Dec 31 Reflecting on 2019

Dec 12 Fix cURL Error 60 SSL Certificate Problem

Dec 08 Upgrade the PHP CLI to 7.4 on Mac

Dec 04 Mac Screen Recoding GIF Workflow

Nov 23 How to Install or Renew a SSL Certificate in Ubuntu with Nginx

Nov 14 Fix Vagrant Homestead "Can't create database" Error

Nov 10 How to Fix Laravel's Dreaded "No input file specified" Error

Nov 04 Improve Your Site's Lighthouse Accessibility Score (and Performance) with Some Easy Fixes

Oct 31 How to Install the Latest (or Specific) Version of PHP in Windows 10

Oct 27 How to Move a Site Provisioned With Laravel Forge to a Different Domain

Oct 03 Maintenance procedure for a Laravel Forge instance

Sep 07 Introducing 1Secret.app

Aug 23 Welcome to Chasingcode.dev

Jul 21 Disable Submit Button on Form Submit with JavaScript

Jul 18 Convert UTC Server Time to Local with JavaScript

Jul 16 Beware of Vue Components with the Same Name in a Laravel Project

Jul 04 2019 Tech Radar

Jun 30 Omigo.sh is Open Source

Jun 09 PHP - Handle Undefined Index Gracefully

Jun 06 Laravel - The Missing Docs - firstOr()

Jun 03 Laravel withoutExceptionHandling() Gotcha

Jun 02 How to Make Safari Download Files Properly with Laravel

Jun 01 Developer Podcasts I Listen To

May 26 How to Install HTTPie in Windows 10

May 21 My First Laravel Package - laravel-silent-spam-filter

May 19 Useful Linux Commands

May 17 Simple HTTP Response Trait in Laravel

May 01 Speed Up Webpack Watch in Windows

Apr 07 Laravel Add & Remove URL Query Parameters Helpers

Mar 28 Update Enum Column Doctrine Exception in Laravel

Mar 27 Simulate HTTP Exception Status

Mar 24 How to Handle Vue Router Link Mouse Events Properly

Mar 23 Fix Routing Issues for a VueJS App Deployed to Netlify

Mar 04 A Pattern for Building Reusable Create/Update Forms

Feb 08 Simplified Dynamic SVG Icon Component

Feb 07 Supercharged Dynamic Vue SVG Icon Component

Feb 03 Wink vs Jigsaw

Jan 31 Welcome to the New New Blog

2018 (2)

Dec 04 How to Fix Laravel Public Storage

Dec 03 Omigo.sh Blog Intro