Goodbye Spotlight, hello Alfred

May 24 — 3 mins read

I have replaced Spotlight with Alfred. As a developer, it really has boosted my productivity!

Why you should pick Laravel over Lumen in most cases

Jan 06 — 2 mins read

Here are 4 reasons for picking Laravel, even if Lumen seems like a good idea.

Migrated to CNVS

Jan 05 — 1 min read

More than a year ago, I wanted to start a developer blog - and so I did. Simultaneously, I build a small CMS app based on Laravel, because that's what developers should do, right?

Composer getting old

Dec 24 — 1 min read

I just wanted to update some dependencies, but ran into this thing: Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"

Fun... while it lasted...

Dec 20 — 1 min read

So it has come to this again. No blogs for over a year - again. What happened?

Clipboard managers save lives

Nov 21 — 1 min read

Clipboard managers to the rescue! They are simple tools that store every bit of copied information in a series of predefined slots, thus preserving it. Short term just became long term.

My five step guide to Terminal Bliss

Oct 06 — 3 mins read

For a developer, a good terminal setup can make your life a lot easier and with the proper tools and plugins, you can save a lot of time as well. When setting up a new Macbook (or MacOS installation), I stick to my five steps in setting up the perfect terminal configuration.

Setting up Laravel Dusk with CircleCI

Sep 16 — 3 mins read

Setting up a Continuous Integration pipeline using Dusk is well-documented, including guides for CircleCI, Travis, and a couple of others. Just to help anyone out there struggling with CircleCI 2.0, here is a configuration file that combines several features.

Unauthorized access when using policies and authorizeResource helper

Sep 06 — 2 mins read

In order to protect the resourceful controller, Laravel provides a helper function (authorizeResource) that can be placed in the constructor. However, although I was authenticated, I kept hitting a 403 unauthorized error when attempting to show or edit a post.

"Time to read" average for a blog post

Sep 04 — 1 min read

When I started building this blogging application, I did some research on existing platforms. One thing I particularly liked was the time to read feature: an estimate on how long a post would take to read.