Jake and Michael discuss using enums to hide away magic strings and numbers, leveraging language files for communication with app users, and when to reach for vendor libraries.

This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.

Show links

• Laracon Online
• Tailwind CSS preset
• Jack Ellis
  • Serverless Laravel Course

Jake and Michael get deep into discussion on approaches to tracking scheduled tasks, identifying when tasks go missing, and talk about varying task states.

This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.

Show links

• thenPingMe()
• Laravel model states
• Jack Ellis
  • Serverless Laravel Course
• Paul Jarvis

Jake and Michael return to discuss focusing on privacy, sending LOTS of email quickly, and how much logging is too much logging.

This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses

Show links

•  I was Google's Head of International Relations. Here's why I left.
• FBI 'persuaded Apple to halt iCloud encryption'
• Paul Jarvis
• Jack Ellis
  • Serverless Laravel; a video course for Laravel Developers who want to scale their applications using Laravel Vapor
• Above Board, a podcast from Fathom Analytics
• Build your SaaS
  • Justin Jackson
• Caleb Porzio
  • Sponsor Caleb on GitHub to get early access to Sushi

Jake and Michael return for 2020 to discuss all things Barbara Walters, Redis queues, processing email in Laravel, and an overdue update on thenping.me

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Show links

• Barbara Walters
• Laracasts Snippet - A brain dump on fatherhood
• Redis
• Laravel Horizon
• Laravel Mailbox
• spatie/pdf-to-text
• spatie/pdf-to-image
• thenping.me

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss reviewing code with new or junior developers, answering a question from Twitter.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable and was streamed live.

Show links

• Jefe's question
• tlint - an opinionated code linter from Tighten
• StyleCI - The web coding style fixer
• Laravel coding style ruleset for php-cs-fixer by Jason McCreary of Laravel Shift
• Michael's Laravel style guide
• Spatie's development guidelines
• Vue style guide
• Michael reviewing large pull requests

Michael provides a retrospective on Laracon AU 2019, Jake discusses working with third-party auth providers, and we discuss the ongoing development of our SaaS, thenping.me

This episode is sponsored by CTO Sumo and was recorded live.

* Laracon AU
* Thenping.me

Jake and Michael discuss MC'ing events, the perils of testing between Valet sites on .test domains, and shaping their upcoming SaaS, thenping.me.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and was streamed live.

Jake and Michael discuss approaches to tracking releases in bug tracking software, upgrading apps to Laravel 6, highly available databases with ProxySQL and HAProxy, and building responsive apps with Tailwind CSS and Sizzy.

This episode was streamed live.

Show links

• Sentry
• ProxySQL
  • Issues with Laravel's use of prepared statements with ProxySQL
• HAProxy
• laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware
• Tailwind CSS
• Sizzy
• Tailwind UI
• Julia Evans on Twitter

Jake and Michael discuss the perils of refactoring the UI of a legacy app, and the SaaS they've been working on; thenping.me

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.

This episode was streamed live.

Show links

• Refactoring UI
• Selling stuff on a busy beach by Justin Jackson
• Monitoring Laravel scheduled tasks with thenping.me

Jake and Michael discuss the inclusion of a decision folder in your project repo, quickly escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaS.

Thanks to this episode's sponsor, CTO Sumo.

This episode was streamed live.