Local 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 readblog.hennell.dev
Global 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 readblog.hennell.dev
Ai: 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 readblog.hennell.dev
The 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 readblog.hennell.dev
Working 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 readblog.hennell.dev
