Dwight Watson's blog

Rails 7 introduced a new feature to pre-define your ActiveStorage variants to allow re-use throughout your app. Unfortunately one of the top…

I recently replaced Webpacker v6 in a Rails app with the new standard of using eslint. Turned out to be a lucky change as well considering…

I've been using GitHub Actions more and more as a CI pipeline for my Laravel apps. Following a successful build on the master branch I want…

I recently launched HighSchoolNotes.com.au into another region HighSchoolNotes.co.nz. Under the hood this is the very same Laravel app…

For whatever reason Laravel Vapor explictly does not publish your file, and it won't be fixed changed until the next major version. To get…

Stripe webhooks can be a little bit annoying to verify. In Laravel I've generally done it using the method of a FormRequest. The…

A number of apps I've worked on have used HTTP request geolocation to show content that's relevant to the user. Not in a creepy way (where…

Rails has a simple syntax for rendering a collection of partials and caching them all in one go. Under the hood it'll try and fetch all the…

I've just recently started working with Laravel Livewire, now that it ships as an option with the new Laravel Jetstream. Livewire is a…

I've known about Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration for a while but haven't had a good use-case. In brief, this feature allows you to speed up…