North Meets South Web Podcast

In 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 AU

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• Rodecaster Duo
• Michael's tattoo
• Stoplight
• Scramble
• Vitepress
• Laracon AU

In 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.

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jason Beggs from the Laravel team to discuss the approaches they're taking to fake interaction with third-party services during development of their upcoming product, Laravel Cloud.

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• Jason Beggs
• Laravel Cloud
• Using fake providers in development
• Database fake

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss potential security considerations around segmenting file uploads per tenant, approaches to testing batch jobs in Laravel, and perhaps the untold power of using enums in PHP.

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• Trailer for Mastering Postgres
• Aaron's podcast with Glauber Costa
• Extending enums with attributes
• Laracon AU

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (inadvertently) bathing keyboards, pairing with remote colleagues and friends, using rational numbers to deal with rounding errors (sort of), and running code style fixers in CI or as a pre-commit hook.

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• Tuple
• Laramates
• Around
• brick/math
• brick/money
• Pint
• Running Pint on GitHub Actions
• Husky
• Whisky

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss different approaches to configuring a Laravel app, for consistency, security, and shareability among a team and across environments.

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• Australian men on the phone to each other
• Go ahead, delete your .env.example file

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the line between soda and bubbly water, Laracon AU, two-way SMS conversations, and the implications of not knowing maths as a programmer.

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss feature flags, particularly the freshly-released before hook, and the perils of incorrect eager loading as your application scales.

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• Fool's mate
• Tim MacDonald
• Introduce 'before' hook

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss whether you should push polymorphism to the database or settle for a simple JSON field, and we discuss options for rendering multiple edit fields on an index page.

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• My User Guide
• Liquid Death

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss music we're into at the moment, using Pennant for feature flags in Laravel, and the age old set of requirements: "it needs to do everything the old one did"

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• Audio Reign
• Louis Cole
• Vulfpeck
• Burn the Jukebox
• Laracon AU