Author: Matt Yeend
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Laravel 12
Laravel 12, released on February 24, 2025, continues the framework’s tradition of enhancing developer productivity and application performance. Building upon the robust foundation of Laravel 11, this latest version introduces several noteworthy updates and refinements. Key Updates in Laravel 12 1. Enhanced Performance and Scalability Laravel 12 introduces asynchronous caching mechanisms, allowing cache operations to…
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Supporting Developers with GitHub Sponsors and Buy Me a Coffee
In today’s digital landscape, open-source developers, content creators, and indie programmers invest countless hours building and maintaining projects that benefit the community. However, sustaining these efforts often requires financial support. Two popular platforms, GitHub Sponsors and Buy Me a Coffee, provide easy ways for users to support their favorite developers. Let’s explore how these platforms…
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The Transformative Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Society
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a niche academic field into a transformative force reshaping industries and redefining the way we live. From streamlining business processes to revolutionising healthcare, AI has proven to be an indispensable tool in addressing complex challenges. What Is Artificial Intelligence? AI refers to the development of computer systems capable…
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New Packages
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been busy working and publishing on a few new Laravel packages, which can be found here and here. There first being a logger package, and the second being one to stop destructive commands. The logger package has a migration and a model that would save logs to the…
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Laravel Development
Laravel has become one of the most beloved PHP frameworks, renowned for its elegant syntax, robust features, and active community. It simplifies common tasks in web development, enabling developers to focus on crafting seamless applications. In this blog post, we’ll delve into Laravel’s key features, advantages, and how you can leverage it to build high-quality…
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The Importance of Stopping Destructive Commands
One of the main differences between a local environment and a production one, is the ability to run the majority, if not all, of the Artisan commands via the terminal. However, you might not want to allow this to happen in a production environment. One of the easiest ways to stop this would be to…
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Best Practices
It’s easy as a developer to get stuck in ways of coding and doing enough of a job to a point of where if it works, it works; even if it’s not the best way to do it or using best practices. I’ve created a new repository on Github here (that will be continuously worked…
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Testing, 1…2…
Whether you love it or hate it, testing is an essential part of development; whether it’s writing Unit Tests or Feature Tests, or if its QA Testing, ensuring that code you have written not only does what is intended, but works with the wider code base and product. Laravel has gained a reputation for being…
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Hello, World!
Welcome to the website. This is the first post. A bit of an introduction to me, I’m Matt and a web developer based in the West Midlands, specialising in Laravel, PHP, React, Vue, and MySQL. Currently, I’m working on a HRMS project that’s on Github (here), and have recently created a new Laravel package for…