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In 2019, I started the "tradition" of reflecting on the past year, mainly from a developer & geek point of view. I think it's a useful tool for summarizing how I've grown as a developer, and what...

I always enjoyed hearing how the owners of lost cameras were re-united with their property and media. Now it became my turn to find the owner of a lost GoPro. Here's how I did it. All the names...

Having worked with Electron and Tauri to build desktop apps, I always thought it would be super cool if someone figured a way to build desktop apps with PHP. Well, that dream came true - in a way -...

In Part 1 I described the command I built with Laravel Prompts to import a CSV file into a SQLite database. Now, I'll dive deeper into how I used spatie/laravel-data for the ItemData...

I've been hacking on a side project in Laravel that may never see the light of day, but I think it's worth talking about the building blocks I used for it. The core functionality revolves around...

In 2023 I changed jobs. For my next position, I was interested in two things: 100% remote work and Laravel. Thankfully, my job search was successful and I found exactly what I was looking for: a...

I came across a repo by Josh Nussbaum comparing React hooks with Svelte through examples, and I thought it would be fun to present it as a static website. I wanted a reason to use SvelteKit 1.x with...

I wanted to write an "Intro to GeoJSON" but Daniel Imfeld Mastodon Twitter beat me to it with an article that is hard to top. Instead, I'll use this space to add any resources around GeoJSON....

After the devastating 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquakes I was looking at earthquake-related stuff on the interwebs and found this nice USGS magnitude 2.5+ earthquakes in the past day website. I liked...

🎉 After many years this blog finally has a comments section of sorts! I have recently added Mastodon replies to blog posts. Granted, the audience is small for now, but I'm hoping to grow it over...