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I have recently been building a few websites using Eleventy. This is a static site generator, built using Jamstack methodology. This is a great way to get a simple website built, as it gives you static HTML files which you can serve from anywhere. Th…
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Concluding 2021, this is my final monthly movie summary of the year. Here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in December 2021. I watched 33 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 380.…
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Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in November 2021. I watched 28 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 347. I started the month of by watching Dune at the cinema. The movie featur…
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Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in October 2021. I watched 29 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 319. Hallow…
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I have been using Laravel's Global Scopes in a recent project. Global scopes are a great way to ensure you're only returning the data you need, especially if you're using soft deleting or other restrictions such as an "active" state. Since…
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Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in September 2021. I watched 31 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 290. Cali…
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Laravel comes with a few tools which help you manage authorisation and restrict how different users interact with your application. The Laravel documentation for Authorisation covers how you handle most of this. First you would create a policy for yo…
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Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in August 2021. I watched 34 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 259. Dangal…
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When building a codebase, either on your own or within a team, its a good idea to keep code consistant. One of the main tools to help keep code consistant is to decide on and employ coding standards. Yes, that means tabs vs spaces, but it also means…
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After my review of the last six months of movies, it made more sense to make it a monthly thing. I watched 33 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 225. Every single movie is a "first time watch". Below is a summary of my favo…