Posts

# Open-source development packages we've released so far in 2021

I wrote a little about the recent open-source packages we've released at Steadfast Collective.

# Using Statamic on Laravel Vapor

When setting up Statamic with Laravel Vapor, there's a couple of things to watch out for. I cover them in this post.

# Testing with Stripe Elements in Laravel Dusk

You need to test payments, probably the most important part of your web application. Well, here's a real simple way to do that with Dusk.

# Get rid of red bars in Sketch

Red bars can be annoying, especially if you can't get rid of them. They defiantly drove me round the bend.

# Install Imagick with Laravel Valet

Quick tutorial on installing Imagick on Mac, alongside your Laravel Valet installation.

# When you accidentally block Forge from your server....

Ever accidentally made a Firewall rule that blocked Forge from your server. What a dumb developer thing to do... no worries though, here's how to fix it.

# Introduction to Fabric

A little about Fabric - a thing I built to quickly scaffold PHP, Laravel and Statamic packages. (it's got a video too)

# Simple Commerce has launched!

The story of me building Simple Commerce - my e-commerce Statamic addon. It's taken months from prototype to launch but I think it's an awesome product.

# Fix HTTPS issue in the Statamic 3 Control Panel

Sometimes with the Statamic Control Panel and HTTPS you can run into issues where assets and network requests don't work properly. Here's a single line of code to fix that problem.

# How to Bypass Composer's Memory Issue

Sometimes when you're running new versions of Composer you'll run into memory issues. Here's a quick solution to bypass it.

# Building a Likes addon in Statamic 3

This post walks you through the process of building a Statamic Likes addon, from bootstrapping to writing the code and setting up tests.

# Move S3 objects from one AWS account to another

A really simple tutorial on copying objects over from an old AWS account to a new one.

# Use Laravel's Maintenance Mode in Statamic

Now that Statamic is just a package inside a Laravel application, it means you can take advantage of Laravel features. There's a Laravel feature called Maintenance Mode which means visitors will see a 'site down' message.

# Setting up for Statamic addon development

Setting up for developing a Statamic 3 addon can be tough. Especially if you've never done package development before. In this post, I guide you through the process of getting everything setup.

# 2019 Year in Review

I've never written one of these before but I thought it would be a good time to start, especially as I've had a year where quite a few things changed in my life.

# Story of my accidental £1.7k bill from Google Cloud Platform

This was a very stressful hour and a half. Somehow my servers went rouge, tried to process 50,000 jobs at once. Each of those calls hit a Google API, racking me up a total in the region of £2700+. Thankfully, I managed to get it adjusted.

# Setup Statamic v2 on Laravel Forge

Every site needs to be hosted, and your Statamic site is no different. The recommended solution is a combination of Digital Ocean and Laravel Forge to handle your hosting and provisioning respectively.

# Update Customer in Stripe using Laravel Cashier

I've just had the situation where I needed to setup my Laravel app to update my customer's information in Stripe when they change it in my app. The method I used to do this is actually undocumented on the official Laravel Cashier documentation, I found it while I was looking through the Cashier code.

# How I built a Web Scraper to create a Bin Collection API

A few months back I wrote some code that would go to my local council's website, search for a street name, open the link, get the bins for that week. When I got it working I was amazed at how easy it was. I was able to just take out content from another site and present it however I wanted.

# Using Vuex to store authentication in Local Storage

I'm currently Rebuilding BiblioSpot as a standalone Vue app which fetches data from our private API. At the start of the project, I was wondering, how I should go about handling Authentication? I tried out a few different solutions but this one seems to work, so I'm going to go along with it.

# CoderDojo Bridgeton Website

For the last year and a half I have been building the CoderDojo Bridgeton website. A large portion of that time was spent creating a static prototype with HTML and CSS.