Articles

Below you will find a selection of articles I've written. Mostly the topics will be along the lines of web application development, but I may also write about other topics, techniques and concepts that interest me.

Welcome

This is just a light welcome post to kick things off and introduce myself and the site.

A Simple Laravel Search Helper

A simple example to demonstrate how to build a trait that you can reuse in your Laravel controllers to handle nested relation search automagically. I'll also explain why you would use this and not write the logic onto a model trait instead

Tools I Use

A quick overview of tools I use to enhance my productivity

SVG Tidy: Clean and Optimise SVGs Locally

Why I built SVG Tidy, a privacy-first browser tool for batch cleaning and optimising SVG files with conservative defaults and clear comparisons.