PHP & Laravel developer, UK
Hi, I'm Liam. I talk about code and stuff.
I write about PHP, Laravel and the little tools that make developers' days better. I make videos, give talks at conferences, and occasionally ship something silly on purpose.
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Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle
PHP UK
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PHP Berkshire
2025
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- Locate - The Search Your Browser Should Have Had
- Newsletters Feel Different
- Keep It Simple, Stupid!
- My Tech Stack in LEGO
- OmARCase
- ElePHPants for Sale
- Todo With A Ticket
- How to Create Full Width Containers in CSS
- PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs
- Think of an Elephpant
- PHP Scratch Files in VSCode
- Twig Push/Stack Extension
- How To Be a Good Conference Attendee
- You Should Translate Your App Into English... Even If It's Already In English
- cpx exec - Scratch File Runner
- Quotes
- Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle - PHP UK 2025
- Scratching an Itch: Scratch File Superpowers - PHP SW 2024
- Seeing Red, or Maybe Green? How Tailwind Helps Colourblind Designers
- PHP Associative Arrays Are Predictably Ordered
- Prepending a String Key to an Associative Array in PHP
- Introducing GitGhost - Sync Git Activity History To Another Repo
2024
- Good Accessibility is Good SEO
- dump(🧠); - Short and Sweet
- Introducing the dump(🧠); Podcast
- Detecting Autoloaders in Composer Bin Commands
- Introducing cpx - Composer Package Executor
- TemPHPest for VSCode Showcase
- Introducing TemPHPest for VSCode
- TailwindCSS Config with ESM Imports
- Quickly Comment Out a PHP File
- The First Useful Test is Empty
- CSS box-decoration-break: clone - Styling Inline Elements That Line Break
- Writing Markdown in VSCode
- A URL is valid PHP code?!
- 3 Rules For Efficient Communication
2021
- Laravel Blade Internals - Disabling the View Cache
- Laravel Blade Internals - Handling Custom Directive Arguments
- Laravel Blade Internals - Extending Blade
- Laravel Blade Internals - Custom Directive Slots and Ending Tags
- Laravel Blade Internals - Compiling Blade Files
- Laravel Blade Internals - Intro
- PHP as a Templating Language
2020
- Undefined Variable Podcast - Episode 2
- Unconventional Autoloaders (Talk)
- Translated Text in Source Code
- Announcing the Livewire.run Newsletter
- Undefined Variable Podcast - Episode 1
- Protecting Against Infinite Gmail Addresses Using Regex
- Avoiding the Pain of Localisation (Talk)
- Compound Colour Utilities with TailwindCSS
- Unconventional PHP (Talk)
- Inline Parameters Extension for VSCode
- Laravel TALL Stack Preset
- Static Constructors in PHP
- Laravel Testing - CSS Selector Assertion Macros
- Laravel Mixins
2019
- Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2019 Deals for PHP & Laravel Developers
- Textarea Slots in Vue Components
- Run and stop multiple long-running commands from Bash with a trap
- Private Constructors
- My PHP Wishlist
- On Leaving Medium
- A Look At PHP's isset()
- PHP Wishlist: Typing
- PHP Wishlist: Operator Overloading
- Supercharge GitHub.com with Browser Extensions
2018
- If Your Blog Doesn't Have an RSS Feed, Don't Have a Blog
- Make Infinite Gmail Addresses For One Inbox
- My MacOS Shortcuts
- Laravel Blade Helpers
- Black Friday 2018 Deals for Laravel Developers
- Why I Prefer Discord Over Slack
- CSS Filter Utility Classes
- Catching an exit(); in PHP
- Bitmask Constant Arguments in PHP
- Use Operator on Any Website
- PHP Shareable Social Media Links
- Laravel Set .env File Variable
- Throttle Simultaneous API Requests with Laravel
- Cenafy For Bash
- Lua Collections
- PHP Function Chaining with Pipes