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North Meets South Web PodcastLaracon, controller middleware, and permissionsIn this episode, Michael and Jake kick things off with some Laracon travel talk, sharing their hotel plans, coffee quests, and even jokes about pillow fights at the conference hotel. Michael reveals his precise coffee scouting for the Vib by Best Western hotel, determined not to survive three days on Starbucks alone.Should you define middleware in a controller’s constructor? Michael explains why he avoids it - preferring to keep all middleware in route definitions for better visibility and maintainability. Jake explores the pros and cons and why he’s still tempted to use it for cert...
2025-07-1150 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastStealth grills, metric takeover, and selecting conference talksIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Jake's new stealth grill, his eldest son's takeover of the state finals (and metric's takeover of measurement), and Michael goes through the process of refining over 150 talk submissions down to the final Laracon AU schedule.
2025-05-2241 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastLaracon AU, queued batches, and leveraging AIIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the ramp up of Laracon AU planning, touch base on Jake's unorthodox usage of Laravel Horizon, and Michael finally coming around to using AI.
2025-04-2436 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastNew setups, Saloon SDKs, and configuring HorizonIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new recording gear, building integrations with external APIs using Saloon, and configuring Laravel Horizon.
2025-04-1040 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastNorth Meets South meets Slightly Caffeinated meets David Hemphill Christmas ExtravaganzaJoin Jake, Michael, David, TJ, and Chris for a merry chat about tech, holiday antics, and the entertaining Wheel of Fortune game!## LinksEngineering Management for the rest of us## SocialXhttps://x.com/northsouthaudiohttps://x.com/JacobBennett https://x.com/michaeldyryndahttps://x.com/davidhemphillhttps://x.com/heytjmillerhttps://x.com/cmgmyrBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/northmeetssouth.audiohttps://bsky.app/profile/dyrynda.auhttps://bsky.app/profile/jakebennett.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.b...
2024-12-191h 01
The Road to LaraconMichael DyryndaMitchell Davis interviews Michael Dyrynda, Organiser of Laracon AU.Big & Rich - Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)SpotifyApple MusicEminem - Without MeSpotifyApple MusicDream Theater - HomeSpotifyApple MusicAudio ReignThe Road to LaraconSpotifyApple Music
2024-11-0235 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastLarge file uploads, scrambled spotlights, and preparing for Laracon AUIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss large file uploads without double-handling them, generating API documentation for your app, and the mad rush of the last two weeks before this year's Laracon AUShow linksRodecaster DuoMichael's tattooStoplightScrambleVitepressLaracon AU
2024-10-2426 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastDynamic images, Livewire slots, and API-based file uploadsIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (clever?) ways to generate dynamic images for OpenGraph purposes, how a missing slot variable sent Michael mad, Jake's adventures with API-based file uploads, and some more details about Laracon AU.
2024-10-1045 min
RipplesMaking wavesIn this episode, Greg and Michael aren't joined by any guests, but touch base on how their own journeys are progressing, and Michael shares some hints about the upcoming launch of Laracon AU! Show linksBrisbane Laravel MeetupDesigning with friction, it's irritatingly good
2024-04-3034 minRipplesContent marketing as a sales funnelGreg and Michael discuss a busy February, lean March, and some thoughts around using content to provide value, while also testing and shaping new material.Show links- https://nathan.ck.page/products/money - the evergreen newsletter Michael mentioned- https://share.transistor.fm/s/e6a94949 and the story behind it
2024-03-1838 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastThe one with Ripples, Forge previews, and LaraconJake and Michael discuss another of Michael's podcasts, Ripples, setting up review sites on Laravel Forge with Ryan Chandler's Forge Previewer, and speaking and attending Laracon(s).Show linksRipplesRyan ChandlerForge PreviewerLaracon USPHPTekHere’s why you should attend Laracon
2024-02-2142 minRipplesWhat's the deal with Ripples?In this first episode of Ripples, Greg and Michael discuss the theme of the podcast, and talk a little bit about Greg's journey with Ripples after speaking at Laracon AU 2023.Michael also shares some details about Laracon AU 2024.Show linksHallway track podcastWelcome to Laracon AUSimon VrachliotisAaron FrancisAdam WathanMatt StaufferLaracon AU
2024-01-2334 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastThe one with the LumberjackJake and Michael get a sneak peek into Laracon AU 2024, discuss Michael's migration to Snowflakes, and Jake's challenge around preventing multiple windows open for the same application page.Show linksSnowflakesJavaScript doesn’t like large numbersLumberjack Song
2023-12-1349 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastUpgrading Laravel, static analysis, and speeding up testsJake and Michael discuss the very, very, very momentous occasion of Michael finally getting to work both a modern version of Laravel and PHP, some of the twists and turns along the way, difficulties in testing multi-database multi-tenancy, and dissecting PDFs.
2023-03-0928 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastDeveloper's Minifesto, agile theatre, and misccellaneous ramblingJake and Michael discuss the developer's minifesto, some of the theatre that goes into organisational Agile, and Michael goes off on some incoherent rambling about all manner of different topics.This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.Show linksOnly solve one problem at a timeManifesto for minimalist software engineersManifesto for agile software developmentAgile anti-patterns
2022-11-1136 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastA boy's first footy game, scheduling Vestaboard messages, and a thenping.me updateIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael taking his son to his first game of footy, approaches to handling variable message scheduling for Jake's Vestaboard, and a long overdue thenping.me update.Show linksVestaboardthenping.me - hands-free scheduled task monitoring for Laravel
2022-04-2554 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastVim throwdown, Part 1In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jesse Leite, and kick off a mini-series on using Vim for PHP development.This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.Show linksVimNeovimWhy Vim uses hjkl as arrow keysMichael's (Neovim) dotfilesJesse's (Neovim) dotfilesVim Support Group on Discord
2022-02-281h 11North Meets South Web PodcastNew year, new job, new startIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new job, YAGNI, and approaches to working your way into a new codebase and a new industry.This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.Show linksLaravel TransporterSaloonYAGNIClickUpAllen Holub on building software better and building better software
2022-01-171h 03North Meets South Web PodcastIndustrial shifts, polymorphism, and single table inheritanceIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's change in job (again), and when you might choose single table inheritance over polymorphism.This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.Show linksNo CompromisesLaravel test generatorParentalPushing polymorphism to the database
2021-12-0651 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastConquering completion, Vim, and IntelephenseIn this episode, Jake and Michael dive into Michael's Vim and his attempts to #DispelTheMyth around how much work is required to make it a solid option for working with PHP.Show linksPEBKAC, but it's AustralianVimcoc.nvimphpactorVim's autocompletion for PHPMichael's not trying to convince you to change what works for youvim-plugMake VS Code awesomeBen Orenstein on VimOnramp to VimMastering Vim has never been easierIntelephenseLaravel Idealaravel-ide-helperVim Support Group on Discord
2021-05-3053 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastJunior tech support agents, modern PHP complexities, and Pi-holesIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new role as a junior tech support agent, whether or not modern PHP development is too complex, and the power and majesty of Pi-hole.This episode was streamed live and sponsored by thenping.me - hands-free scheduled task monitoring for Laravel.Use coupon code NMSPING to get 5% off launch pricing for your first three months.
2021-02-0752 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastNew year, new job, and developer salariesJake and Michael ring in 2021 with discussions of Michael's new job and developer salaries.This episode was streamed live and sponsored by thenping.me - hands-free scheduled task monitoring for Laravel.Use coupon code NMSPING to get 5% off launch pricing for your first three months.
2021-01-2549 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastTeams, Billing, and Parades of NinjasJake and Michael are joined by Yaz, to talk about approaches to managing teams in Laravel applications, as well as Stripe Checkout.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses and Workvivo, the employee communication platform for the modern workplace.You can catch the live stream of this episode on YouTube.Show linksYazContestKitthenping.me - hands-free scheduled task monitoring for LaravelAwesome TALL stackStripe CheckoutLaravel Worldwide Meetup
2020-08-2358 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastCloudFlare, launch plans, and handling complex data flowsJake and Michael discuss some of the great, free tooling from CloudFlare, launch and pricing plans for thenping.me, and handling complex data flows with data pipelines.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses - and was streamed live.Show linksCloudflareCloudflare Web Application FirewallFree wildcard SSL using Forge + CloudflareApple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespanszaengle/pipelineHandling complex data flowsFull Stack Radio - Alex DeBrie - DynamoDB for relational database diehards
2020-07-2658 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastHandling alerts, command pipelines, and (un)masked passwordsJake and Michael discuss how they're tackling alerts and customer notifications in thenping.me, command pipelines, and the curious case of (un)masked password fields.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses - and was streamed live.Show linksthenping.meStop password masking
2020-07-1253 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastScheduled tasks alerts, edge casees, and honing your messageJake and Michael talk through the final stages of preparation to unleash their Laravel scheduled task monitoring SaaS thenping.me to people signed up for the beta.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses - and was streamed live.thenping.meMarketing for developers
2020-06-2847 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastThe Nine Nine, HTTP Gateways, and calculated mutexesJake and Michael discuss whether or not Brooklyn Nine-Nine should become a show about the USPS, approaches to testing HTTP endpoints, and resolving issues in Thenpingme when identifying tasks.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses.Show linksWorkvivoSet the next season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in a post office?Run scheduled tasks in the backgroundLaravel CashierStripePaddleMollie
2020-06-1649 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastMikado, Refactoring Gurus, and ArgoJake and Michael discuss the Mikado Method, the refactoring guru, and the magic of Cloudflare Argo.This episode was sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses, and was streamed live.Show linksUse the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebaseRefactoring GuruEloquent Performance PatternsLaunch detailsCloudflare Argo
2020-05-3149 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastDTOs, Enums, and DivinationsJake and Michael discuss the use of DTOs and Enums in their upcoming SaaS, thenpingme, and catch up with Caneco to discuss the design work he's been doing for the community.This episode was sponsored by Fathom Analytics, simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses, and was streamed live.Show linksspatie/data-transfer-objectspatie/enumGitHub SponsorsCaleb PorzioJonathan ReininkDries VintsNuno MaduroSpatieUpcoming Laravel merch
2020-05-0445 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastPayment processing, when to extract classes, and failure alertsJake and Michael discuss the joys of payment processing, when to extract methods to dedicated classes, and handling failure alerts in thenping.meThis episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics - simple, privacy-focused website analytics for bloggers & businesses, and was streamed live.Check out our upcoming Laravel scheduled task monitoring platform, thenping.me
2020-04-1950 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastStreaming, working from home, and trapping mailJake and Michael discuss their foray into streaming, what it's like working from home (and staying there!), and some of their favourite tooling for local mail testing.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics and was streamed live.Show linksStreamlabs OBSEcamm LivePHPCompatibilityRectorTailwind CSS Tips, Tricks & Best Practices by Sam SelikoffLose It!NotionServerless LaravelTechSoupMinioMailtrapMailHogHeloHeadwindVSCodePhpStormvim
2020-04-0558 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastHoarding toilet paper, project health, and staying homeJake and Michael share how their lives have changed in the two weeks since the last episode thanks to the state of the world, and brainstorm how they plan on managing project health in their upcoming SaaS, thenping.me.Jake and Michael discuss vehicle insurance, health insurance, validation outside of HTTP requests, event sourcing, and more!This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.Show linksHow much toilet paper do you need?thenping.me
2020-03-2253 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastInsurance, validation outside of HTTP requests, and event sourcingJake and Michael discuss vehicle insurance, health insurance, validation outside of HTTP requests, event sourcing, and more!This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.Show linksServerless Laravel Coursecoc.vim
2020-03-081h 03North Meets South Web PodcastHiding magic strings, leveraging language files, and reaching for vendor librariesJake and Michael discuss using enums to hide away magic strings and numbers, leveraging language files for communication with app users, and when to reach for vendor libraries.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.Show linksLaracon OnlineTailwind CSS presetJack EllisServerless Laravel Course
2020-02-2345 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastTracking task executions, identifying missing tasks, and long episode namesJake and Michael get deep into discussion on approaches to tracking scheduled tasks, identifying when tasks go missing, and talk about varying task states.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businesses and was streamed live.Show linksthenPingMe()Laravel model statesJack EllisServerless Laravel CoursePaul Jarvis
2020-02-0955 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastPrivacy focus, email woes, and too much loggingJake and Michael return to discuss focusing on privacy, sending LOTS of email quickly, and how much logging is too much logging.This episode is sponsored by Fathom Analytics; the simple, privacy-focussed analytics for bloggers & businessesShow links I was Google's Head of International Relations. Here's why I left.FBI 'persuaded Apple to halt iCloud encryption'Paul JarvisJack EllisServerless Laravel; a video course for Laravel Developers who want to scale their applications using Laravel VaporAbove Board, a podcast from Fathom AnalyticsBuild your SaaSJustin JacksonCaleb PorzioSponsor Caleb on GitHub to get early access to Sushi
2020-01-2755 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastBarbara Walters, queue woes, and email processingJake and Michael return for 2020 to discuss all things Barbara Walters, Redis queues, processing email in Laravel, and an overdue update on thenping.meBe sure to check out our show sponsor, Fathom Analytics - a simple, privacy-focused website analytics platform for bloggers & businesses - to get $10 of your first month of service.Show linksBarbara WaltersLaracasts Snippet - A brain dump on fatherhoodRedisLaravel HorizonLaravel Mailboxspatie/pdf-to-textspatie/pdf-to-imagethenping.me
2020-01-1256 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastReviewing code with new developersIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss reviewing code with new or junior developers, answering a question from Twitter.This episode is sponsored by Makeable and was streamed live.Show linksJefe's questiontlint - an opinionated code linter from TightenStyleCI - The web coding style fixerLaravel coding style ruleset for php-cs-fixer by Jason McCreary of Laravel ShiftMichael's Laravel style guideSpatie's development guidelinesVue style guideMichael reviewing large pull requests
2019-11-1758 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastLaracon AU retro, working with third-party auth providers, and thenping.meMichael provides a retrospective on Laracon AU 2019, Jake discusses working with third-party auth providers, and we discuss the ongoing development of our SaaS, thenping.meThis episode is sponsored by CTO Sumo and was recorded live.* Laracon AU* Thenping.me
2019-11-0353 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastMC'ing events, testing .test domains, and shaping thenping.meJake and Michael discuss MC'ing events, the perils of testing between Valet sites on .test domains, and shaping their upcoming SaaS, thenping.me.This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and was streamed live.
2019-10-211h 02North Meets South Web PodcastTracking bugs in releases, upgrading to Laravel 6, and highly available databasesJake and Michael discuss approaches to tracking releases in bug tracking software, upgrading apps to Laravel 6, highly available databases with ProxySQL and HAProxy, and building responsive apps with Tailwind CSS and Sizzy.
This episode was streamed live.
Show links
Sentry
ProxySQL
Issues with Laravel's use of prepared statements with ProxySQL
HAProxy
laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware
Tailwind CSS
Sizzy
Tailwind UI
Julia Evans on Twitter
2019-10-0753 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastRefactor a legacy UI, then ping meJake and Michael discuss the perils of refactoring the UI of a legacy app, and the SaaS they've been working on; thenping.meThis episode is sponsored by Makeable.This episode was streamed live.Show linksRefactoring UISelling stuff on a busy beach by Justin JacksonMonitoring Laravel scheduled tasks with thenping.me
2019-09-1546 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastDecision folders, escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaSJake and Michael discuss the inclusion of a decision folder in your project repo, quickly escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaS.
Thanks to this episode's sponsor, CTO Sumo.
This episode was streamed live.
2019-08-251h 00North Meets South Web PodcastMonitoring scheduled tasks, Inertia and Livewire, and "microservices"Jake and Michael discuss monitoring scheduled tasks in Laravel, Inertia and Livewire, and "Microservices".
This episode is sponsored by Workvivo
Show links
This episode was streamed live!
Healthy Hacker
Oh Dear
Cronitor
Why build X when Y exists?
Inertia.js
Livewire Framework
2019-08-1151 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastNorth Meets South Meets No PlansTo MergeJake and Michael catch up with Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne at Laracon US 2019 for a day one recap.
2019-07-2829 minNorth Meets South Web PodcastScaling databases, dispatching jobs, and taking charge of teamsJake and Michael discus the perils of scaling the MySQL database for an application, the handiness of dispatching jobs, and taking charge of development teams.
Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable!
Show links
MySQL slow query log
Postgres query planner
MySQL EXPLAIN
ProxySQL
Can't create more than max_prepared_stmt_count statements with ProxySQL
Laravel.io codebase
2019-05-1944 min
North Meets South Web PodcastTheodor Geisel, complex validation, and compiled assets in gitMichael and Jake discuss the books of Theodor Geisel, complex validation and when to reach for form requests, and discuss whether or not you might store compiled assets in your version control.
Thanks to CTO Sumo for sponsoring this episode!
Show links
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Fox in Socks
Form request validation
Dealing with compiled files in git
Laravel self-diagnosis by Marcel Pociot
2019-04-2153 min
North Meets South Web PodcastGetting Shifty with JMacIn this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by JMac to discuss maintainable code, keeping your Laravel codebase up to date, and more.
Show links
JMac (Jason McCreary)
Laravel Shift
BaseCode
Laravel by the numbers
Practicing YAGNI
Shift like a pro
Shifty Coders
Workshops by JMac
Jesse Schutt
YouTube
Website
Michael's Laravel style guide
2019-04-071h 04
North Meets South Web PodcastLaracon Online, payment processing, and handling webhooksJake and Michael recap Laracon Online, event sourcing, payment processing, sharing migrations and models, and handling webhooks.
Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable!
Show links
Laravel event projector
EventSauce
Laravel EventSauce
Stripe
Nomad
Vagabond
Composer platform config
2019-03-1755 min
North Meets South Web PodcastLogging stacks, proxying SQL, and database clustersIn this episode, Jake and Michael discuss logging stacks in Laravel, ProxySQL and Galera Cluster, and state machines (which have started to grow on Michael)
Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Andreas Hubenthal!
Show links
Logging stacks
Galera Cluster
ProxySQL
MySQL binary logging
2019-02-171h 14
North Meets South Web PodcastQueued jobs, web sockets, and exceptional bailoutsJake and Michael discuss queueing jobs at scale with Laravel Horizon, web sockets implementations, and using exceptions to bail you out of handling falsey conditions.
This episode brought to you by CTO Sumo
Show links
SELinux
Laravel Horizon
Apache Kafka
websocketd
Throwing arbitrary validation exceptions in Laravel - Otwell Recommended ™️
2019-01-2851 min
North Meets South Web PodcastNew year goals, returning to the gym, and snow shovelling alternativesJake and Michael return for 2019, sharing their personal and technical goals for the year, talk about refactoring legacy code and introducing tests, and Jake shares more of his adventures with Laravel Nova.
Show links
Laracon US
git quick-stats
Preventing scheduled task overlap
Handling configured trim values in Horizon
XState
2019-01-1456 min
North Meets South Web PodcastThird annual North Meets South meets Dads in Dev meets TJ Miller meets Chris Gmyr Belated Christmas Extravaganza PodcastJake and Michael are joined by David and Andrew of the Dads in Dev podcast, along with TJ Miller (not the actor/comedian) and Chris Gmyr to wrap up 2018 and look ahead to 2019 #cashmoney
This show was (not) recorded in front of a live studio audience.
Show links
Laravel Nova
David's Laracon AU talk
Andrew's Egghead videos
Webflow
Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 strength program
Adam Wathan on the Laravel Podcast
APIs with Laravel
Chris' 5 Minute Productivity
Headspace
Paul Redmond's 2017 year in review
5khaos
Refactoring UI book
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Children of Time
Radical Candor
Furies...
2019-01-011h 24
North Meets South Web PodcastVue transitions, file uploads, and conventional wisdomJake and Michael record a live episode, and discuss Vue transitions, file uploading, and share some conventional wisdom.
Show links
The Grinch
Vue transitions
FilePond
Doka.js
Laravolt
Spindrift
Thanks to Joe Lennon, Andreas Hubenthal, Rasmus C Nielsen, and JP Davy for sponsoring the show ❤
2018-12-0349 min
North Meets South Web PodcastReconstructive surgery, time management, and scaling infrastructureJake and Michael catch up for the 50th episode and discuss Michael's ACL reconstruction, time management, and scaling infrastructure.
Show links
SoundStripe
Spindrift sparkling water
The Defined Dish
Greg Baugues
Jocko WIllink
Apple Screen Time
Vuex
Adam's Tailwind/vue-cli starter
Refactoring UI
jsonbin
2018-11-1855 min
North Meets South Web PodcastLaracon AU, form building, and advanced learningJake and Michael discuss the very first Laracon AU, designing and building forms, using Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, and advanced learning.
Show links
Expressions
Bootstrap
Tailwind CSS
Laracon AU
Shop Talk podcast
Refactoring Guru
7 patterns to refactor fat ActiveRecord models
2018-10-1550 min
North Meets South Web PodcastType-safety, BladeX, and HTML emailsJake and Michael return to discuss the introduction of further type-safety in PHP, BladeX, finite state machines, and rendering HTML emails.
Thanks to Spatie for sponsoring our show.
Show links
PHP typed properties
Infinitely better UIs with Finite Automata
BladeX - custom HTML components in your Blade views
Introducing view components in Laravel
Laravel View components (package)
Maizzle
2018-09-3047 min
North Meets South Web PodcastReinventing form controls, typing ahead, and converting MySQLi to Query BuilderJake and Michael return after a two month (!!) summer hiatus
Show links
Syntax - Accessibility
Full Stack Radio - Building accessible UI components
Bootstrap Themes
2018-09-1847 min
North Meets South Web PodcastNova, bootleg live streams, and static site hostingMichael and Jake return just in time to talk about the upcoming secret Laravel project, Nova, Laracon US 2018, static site hosting, and more!
Show links
Nova
Freek's live Nova stream
Laracon prizes
Tighten coding challenge
Laracon 2017 talk recaps
Jigsaw
GitHub Pages
Netlify
Michael's Laravel style guide
Netlify forms
Dads in Dev
Laracon AU 2018
2018-07-2441 min
North Meets South Web PodcastEvent sourcing, auditing, and finite state machinesJake and Michael make their return to discuss event sourcing, auditing and reporting, and finite state machines after a busy real life schedule kept them away from recording for a month!
Show links
Deep Work
A package that makes event sourcing in Laravel a breeze
Event Sauce
That Podcast: The one where we talk to Shawn about Event Sourcery, CQRS, Event Sourcing and GDPR
Full Stack Radio: Frank de Jonge - Event sourcing for beginners
Frank de Jonge
Shawn McCool
Laravel activitylog
Finite-state machine
2018-05-3053 min
North Meets South Web PodcastANZACs, queues, and file uploadsJake and Michael return in an irregular time slot to discuss ANZACs, scaling Laravel, queues, handling file uploads, and more!
Show links
Anzac Day
Remembrance Day
Memorial Day
Veterans Day
Scaling Laravel
Laravel Forge
50% off Forge for three months
RabbitMQ
Iron MessageQueue
Pusher
Spatie Medialibrary
Full Stack Radio - DHH - Stimulus in Practice + On Writing Software Well
Spatie's new t-shirts
2018-04-2536 min
North Meets South Web PodcastMechanical keyboards, shared databases, and code thoughtsJake and Michael discuss their new keyboards, Michael tells us about an app using shared database models and migrations he got into production, and we both discuss the code thoughts experiment on Telegram.
Show links
Apple Magic Keyboard 2
CODE Clear
Anne Pro
Etymology of alumin(i)um
Sharing databases between Laravel applications
Code Thoughts
Subscribe on Telegram
2018-04-0844 min
North Meets South Web PodcastStimulus, Glitch, and smart speakersJake and Michael talk about the latest open source contribution from Basecamp, Stimulus, keeping up to date with new technology, and smart speakers.
Show links
Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
Full Stack Radio - DHH - Stimulus in Practice + On Writing Software Well
Turbolinks
On writing software (well?)
Taylor Otwell revisiting value object casting
Syntax FM - Keeping up with the Codeashians
stimulus-starter on Glitch
Browsersync
Chrome DevTools workspaces
laravel-mix-purgecss
Tailwind CSS
HomePod
Google Home
2018-03-1248 min
North Meets South Web PodcastWork, Books and Movies, and ControversyIn this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Cash Money Cowork members TJ Miller and Andrew Del Prete to talk about work, books and movies they've been reading, and controversial topics.
Show Links
PCI Compliance
Shiplap
Musicbed
Iron Gold
Wolf 359
Ars Paradoxica
This American Life
Invisibilia
S-Town
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
Black Panther
AFLW
The Founder
The truth about employee engagement
Laravel Certification
The Ideal Team Player
2018-02-261h 18
North Meets South Web PodcastDrop sets, engaging stakeholders, and real time stats with Matty LantzJake and Michael were joined by Matty Lantz and covered such topics as working out, the recently completed Laracon Online, engaging stake holders, and real time stats with Facebook Insights.
Show links
Matty Lantz
Taylor's daddy/daughter dance
Drop sets
Comparing PHP and Ruby
This American Life
Laracon Online
Steve Schoger
Laravel Horizon
Chris Gmyr
Laura Elizabeth
Design Academy
Red-Green-Refactor
Facebook Ad Insights API
2018-02-1158 min
North Meets South Web PodcastModel accessors, style guides, and NomadsJake and Michael return for 2018 and discuss model accessors for relationships, documenting style guides, shared database migrations, and more!
Show Links
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Model accessors & mutators
Michael's Laravel style guide
Spatie guidelines
Nomad
Vagabond
Spatie Dashboard
Pusher
#fivemindev
Breville Barista Express
Great Wild Coffee
Laracon AU
2018-01-2853 min
North Meets South Web PodcastThe second annual Dads in Dev meets North Meets South meets TJ Miller Christmas Extravaganza web podcast (Part One)Andrew Del Prete, David Hemphill, and TJ Miller join Michael and Jake for their second annual Christmas crossover podcast. We talk about things we learned, best memories, favourite books and movies of 2017 and what we're looking forward to in 2018, as well as play a little Christmas trivia.
Part Two
Show Links
Firefox Quantum
Vue.js devtools for Firefox
Trolls
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Moana
Wonder Woman
The Expanse
Logan
Blade Runner 2049
Baby Driver
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Alien: Covenant
Thor: Ragnarok
Spiderman: Homecoming
Deep Work
Rework
Arrival
The Fountain
The 7 habits of highly effective...
2017-12-1056 min
North Meets South Web PodcastProfessor Plum in the library with a wrenchIn this episode, Jake and Michael talk about Clue, Laracon, working with legacy applications and migrations, machine learning, and CSRF protection.
Show links
Laracon AU
Laracon US
Laracon Online
Laracasts
Laravel 5.4 from scratch
What's new in Laravel 5.5
Sequel Pro Laravel migration exporter
Laravel migrations generator
Jordon Brill
Machine learning
Google Tensor Flow
Amazon Machine Learning
IBM Watson
Google BigQuery
AWS Redshift
Laravel nullable fields
Laravel cascade soft deletes
Vuelidate
Form backend validation
Laravel newsletter
Great Wild Coffee
2017-11-261h 03
North Meets South Web PodcastSecret trips, status pages, and communicationIn this episode, Michael teases about the secret purpose of his Sydney trip, before moving on to the topic of status pages and reporting service disruptions, as well as communicating with peers.
Show Links
AirPods
Andreas
Xero
Spatie's form-backend-validation JavaScript package
StyleCI
Alt Three Services
Catchet
Botman
Flexbox
CSS Grid
Tailwind CSS
Atomic CSS
Flexbox Zombies
What the Flexbox?!
Focus
2017-11-1342 min
North Meets South Web PodcastCode reviews, view composers, and Stranger ThingsIn this episode, Jake and Michael speak about Thor: Ragnarok and Stranger Things 2, before diving into reviewing code and view composers.
Show Links
Stranger Things 2
Thor: Ragnarok
AirPods
Wyze Cam
F-Bar 2.0
Using Laravel Mix for your WordPress theme
View composers
Sharing data with all views (View::share)
Create and share images of your code
dnsrecords.io
Spatie Media Library
Shout outs
Wilbur Powery
Jeff
*Jan Östlund
2017-10-2954 min
North Meets South Web PodcastPromises, Empathy, and the Ivy Lee MethodJake and Michael talk late into the night about Andrew Del Prete's JavaScript Promises course, uploading files to Amazon S3 with DropzoneJS, books they've been reading, and more.
Show Links
#fivemindev by Andrew Del Prete
ES6 Crash Course
vue-resource
axios
A riddle wrapped up in a mystery...
DropzoneJS
Rework by Jason Fried and DHH
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Ivy Lee Method
Browsershot by Spatie
2017-10-1554 min
North Meets South Web PodcastAussie slang, deep delegation, and gathering requirementsJake and Michael return to share some of the Aussie slang Jake has been learning and cover such groundbreaking topics as this year's Hacktoberfest, deep delegation, gathering requirements, and more!
Show Links
Superloop
Hacktoberfest
Gistlog
Markdown to Medium
Fire daemon
Minio: An open source S3-compliant storage service
Browsershot by Spatie
2017-10-0143 min
North Meets South Web PodcastManaging timelines, wireframing, and nested Laravel applicationsJake and Michael continue with their developing journey and share their approaches to managing timelines. They also talk about different wireframing techniques and setup some future episodes with discussion around containing multiple applications in a single Laravel install.
Show Links
Agile Software Development
Scrum
Jason Fried - How to make deadlines actually work
Kanban
Kanban Quick and Easy Guide
Sketch
Craft by Invision
Faker
Notability for iOS
Bootstrap components for Sketch
Guidelines by Spatie
2017-09-0342 min
North Meets South Web PodcastConventions, configuration, and becoming a lead developerJake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus and discuss Michael's new role as a lead developer and the slightly softer focus for the podcast moving forward.
Show Links
Jake's Anchor.fm station
Why Laravel? (Thread)
Responsable interface
Laravel News Podcast
Adam Wathan's example
So about this Googler's manifesto
Vue.js
Filters
Computed properties
Full Stack Radio 70: Jeffrey Way - Vue.js tactics for Server-Side Web Apps
Spatie Dashboard
Vue.js mixins
osTicket
Freshdesk
2017-08-2038 min
North Meets South Web PodcastPodcasting, side hustles, and the importance of being earnestIn this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by up-and-coming Laravel community members Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne for a casual chat about a wide array of topics from podcasting, to side hustles, and the importance of being earnest.
Guest starring
Caleb Porzio
Daniel Coulbourne
Show links
Fits + Starts
Twenty Percent Time
es6-resource-client
Sharing data in a Laravel/Vue application
5 Love Languages (referred to as 7 Love Languages)
The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job
Great people doing stuff for money so they can do other stuff for free
Markdown to Medium
2017-06-251h 13
North Meets South Web PodcastMaking users, shared sessions, and production deploymentsIn our golden episode, Jake and Michael talk about making users in a Laravel app, sharing sessions between servers and applications, and answer a listener question on our production deployment workflows.
Show Links
make:user package
Package auto-discovery in Laravel 5.5
API token authentication in Laravel 5.2 & 5.3
Adldap2 - Laravel
Jenkins
pre-commit by Yelp
GitFTP-Deploy
git-ftp
Surge
Testing Vue components - a five-part series
A straightforward Vue component to filter and sort tables (post to be published during the week of June 12, 2017)
2017-06-1141 min
North Meets South Web PodcastVue components, chainable jobs, and life after thirtyJake and Michael talk about how simple Vue makes life, chaining jobs in the upcoming Laravel 5.5, and Michael's upcoming 30th birthday.
Show Links
Laravel 5.5 changelog
Adding chainable jobs
Taylor's chainable job tweet
Taking care of backups with Laravel
Spatie's Laravel Backup package
2017-05-2836 min
North Meets South Web PodcastEloquent observers, managing client expectations, and Laravel packagesIn this episode, Jake and Michael talk about Eloquent observers and answer listener questions about managing client expectations and packages we use in our Laravel applications.
Show Links
Eloquent observers
Eloquent isDirty method
Eloquent relationships
Dash
devdocs.io
Sueprcharge your Laravel Tinker workflow
Caleb Porzio
Daniel Coulbourne
Twenty Percent Time
Laravel Debugbar
Sentry
Laravel Collective HTML
Bootforms by Adam Wathan
Elegant form handling in Laravel
2017-05-1429 min
North Meets South Web PodcastHTTP clients, container tagging, and foreign keys with Paul Redmond and TJ MillerIn this episode, Jake and Michael welcome Paul Redmond and the returning TJ Miller to have the HTTP client discussion you were promised last time. We also dig into container tagging in Laravel, as well as working with foreign keys in your projects.
Special Guests
Paul Redmond
Lumen Programming Guide
Docker for PHP Developers
TJ Miller
Show Notes
Freestar
Jeffrey Zeldman
Eric Meyer
Dan Cederholm
Express
Zeit Micro
Lumen is dead. Long live Lumen.
Guzzle
Using Guzzle 6 middleware in a Laravel application
PSR-7
Guzzle service descriptions
GitHub
WordPress.org API client
Requests by Ryan...
2017-04-301h 17
North Meets South Web PodcastDocker, Rancher, and Geocities with TJ MillerIn this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by TJ Miller to talk about Docker, Rancher, and journies in development through Geocities and MySpace.
Special guest: TJ Miller
Show Links
International Bancard
Docker
Rancher
Amazon RDS
Laradock
Laravel Valet
Interview with Mohamed Said
Phalcon PHP
Benchmarking Laravel, Symfony, & Zend
xkcd workflow
Codepen
JS Fiddle
Using Guzzle 6 middleware in a Laravel application
2017-04-1640 min
North Meets South Web PodcastWordPress, UUIDs, and testing revelationsThis episode, Jake and Michael speak about working with UUIDs in Laravel, Wordpress, and testing mindsets.
Show Links
Store UUID in an optimized way
Laravel model UUIDs
Laravel efficient UUIDs
Build APIs You Won't Hate by Phil Sturgeon
Advanced Custom Fields
Australia's Science Channel
Divi by Elegant Themes
TDD; one thought at a time, complete it before starting another
Running Laravel Dusk on TravisCI and CircleCI
Disabling exception handling in Laravel 5.4 feature tests
2017-04-0236 min
North Meets South Web PodcastMentoring, upgrading config, and cloud infrastructureJake and Michael discuss self-improvement through mentoring developers new to Laravel, upgrading configuration between Laravel versions, and IAM credentials on cloud infrastructure.
We now have swag - check out the store!
Show links
Jeffrey Zeldman
Somebody is always where you were yesterday
Batman Game by bigjman123
Rubber ducking
Queue::pushRaw
Adele
Amazon IAM
Google Cloud Platform IAM
The key lesson from our serverless migration
Amazon Cognito
North Meets South apparel
2017-03-1931 min
North Meets South Web PodcastClouds, queues, and learning to codeIn this episode, Jake and Michael talk about 80 new Pokemon, Jake streaming zip files from Amazon S3, Michael's woes with queues and Google Cloud Platform, as well as learning to code with PhaserJS.
Show links
80 new Pokemon
S3BucketStreamZip
GCP Object Change Notification
Beanstalk JOB_TOO_BIG
Laravel Queues
Phaser JS
Ranger Steve
Batman game
Space Beer Cave - Three Devs and a Maybe
Fraser Hart
Laravel custom authentication guards
Laravel custom authentication providers
2017-02-1928 min
North Meets South Web PodcastNon-recording, updating Laravel, and huge manateesAfter a hiccup that led to having to re-record the first five minutes of the show, Jake and Michael talk about manually updating Laravel apps and the virtues of doing so regularly, a brief outburst on politics, and comparing modern JavaScript frameworks with legacy jQuery.
Show links
There (probably) won't be another Laravel LTS
Ship my pants
Big gas savings
Laravel Shift
Jason McCreary
YAGNI - Larcon US 2016
trash-cli
Wes Bos
Skip YouTube pre-roll ads
Curious George - Monkey Down Under
Javascript 30
ES6 for everyone
Markdown to Medium
extract-gfm
2017-02-0535 min