blog.hennell.devLocal helpers with Laravel for speed and sanityAbout a year ago spatie released a small package called https://github.com/spatie/laravel-login-link - a library that lets you quickly login via an auto login button on the login page when you're working locally. Now I'm used to using custom CLI comm...Sep 21, 2023·3 min read
blog.hennell.devGlobal Tags and Metadata on Laravel MailablesLaravel mailables have a nice interface for consistently structuring an email for any of their supported drivers. As I'm often working with Mailgun I like Laravels support for tags and metadata which lets you add additional metadata to a message for ...Sep 13, 2023·2 min read
blog.hennell.devAi: The danger of plausible but wrongThere's no doubt AI is an exciting technology - the demos and API's you can use right now to generate images and text from a simple prompt is impressive. But there's a big issue visible in many of the AI-created works: things are plausible - but wron...Apr 20, 2023·3 min read
blog.hennell.devThe golden rule of understanding computersThere's a fundamental rule that the tech-proficient understands which many lay people seem to ignore. But while there is much talk of the non-technical folks' belief in "the magic of computers" there's less explicit talk of the one real truth behind ...Mar 6, 2023·1 min read
blog.hennell.devWorking in byte-sized chunksProbably the single best improvement to my website work in the last few years has been my move to a more agile style continuous-delivery process. Spending time upfront to ensure an easy and hassle-free deployment pays off very fast in time saved when...Jan 20, 2023·2 min read
