How to use PurgeCSS with Laravel, Vite and Bootstrap 5
Want to use PurgeCSS with Bootstrap, Laravel and Vite? This post is for you!
Software development and everything in-between
Hello! I'm a software developer from the North East of England. I currently work with PHP & Laravel. I also have a keen interest in Offensive Pen Testing and I'm currently working towards obtaining my CompTIA PenTest+ certification.
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Is the Apple Studio Display Worth It?
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How to install an existing laravel project using Sail / Docker
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How to use Digital Ocean Reserved IPs when upgrading Ubuntu
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How to remove values from request in Laravel
Ever needed to remove an item from the $request object in Laravel? In this guide I show you how.
How to delete jobs from a redis queue in Laravel
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Why I'm building my own freelancing CRM platform
Follow me as I embark on the popular Build In Public trend. Creating my own freelancing CRM platform.
Amazon Kids Plus Review
My Daughter has been using Amazon Kids+ For over a year. Is it worth it, is it any good? A...
How to sanitize user input with Laravel Livewire
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How to connect to GoPro WiFi on Android 12
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Import files from a directory and save them to AWS S3 + Database
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How to setup IP restriction in Laravel Horizon and avoid 403 access denied error
I show you how to setup IP address restriction for Larvel Horizon and how to avoid the 403 error on...
Upload, resize and save images using Intervention and AWS S3
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How to create a simple sitemap for Wink
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Setting up a LEMP server from scratch
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Laravel PDF API
As part of my day job I was required to make PDF's from HTML templates and expose this via an...
How to Install Laravel Spark
Doing a fresh install of Laravel Spark or even an upgrade has proved problematic almost every time i attempt it....
How to use Laravel Forge with Amazon Web Services EC2
Laravel Forge is a great tool to help you provision your own servers, however if you want to use AWS...
Backup MySQL database to Digital Ocean Spaces
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Notifications delayed on Android Pie?
Just recently I noticed that notifications for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were not coming through. They'd only show if I...
Laravel Queue Delays Not Working
Using Laravel 5.7 queues along with Redis I found that whilst the events were being dispatched and handled by the...
Upload and fetch images using Digital Ocean Spaces and Laravel 5
I needed a place to securely store my files offsite and Amazon S3 was a obvious choice at time (2016)....
Cached values not showing in Redis
Recently I wasn't able to access any cached values in Redis. I knew the values were being saved, but no...
Custom API error messages with Laravel 5+
I've been building an API using Laravel 5.6 and one of the things which I wanted to do was to...
Can't write image data to path - Intervention Image
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How to set file permissions for Laravel 5 on mac OSX
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Perfect PageSpeed score using Bootstrap and mod_pagespeed
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