Hi, I’m Oliver.
Senior software developer, former CS teacher, and serial builder of things on the Internet.
I work at Spindogs on bespoke software projects, mostly with PHP and Laravel. Outside work, I build web apps and games, contribute to volunteer and open-source software, and occasionally write about what I learn along the way.
Latest Posts
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NB: This is literally just my 2¢. If you don’t agree, that’s okay. Recently, Taylor Otwell, the lead maintainer behind the Laravel framework announced that their open source libraries would be closing their GitHub issues on almost all of their repositories. (Though seemingly excluding the main framework, for now) I can’t put into words how…
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🎶 Wake up, wake up, it’s the first of the month 🎶 September is probably the most important month in my life; it’s the month that has encompassed most of my biggest trials, changes and ‘start-agains’, but this probably shouldn’t be surprising given how my life, for the longest period of time, revolved almost entirely…
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I’m not the biggest fan of agentic development as a concept, but where it shines is breaking up some work that you did into logical, smaller pull requests that are easier to review, and picking up any little mistakes you might’ve made along the way. Maybe add some extra tests. In any case, whilst hard…