North Meets South Web Podcast

North Meets South Web Podcast

By Jacob Bennett and Michael DyryndaTechnology
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North Meets South Web Podcast episodes

  • Hoarding toilet paper, project health, and staying home

    Jake 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 links

    • How much toilet paper do you need?
    • thenping.me
    54 min
  • Hiding magic strings, leveraging language files, and reaching for vendor libraries

    Jake 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 links

    • Laracon Online
    • Tailwind CSS preset
    • Jack Ellis
      • Serverless Laravel Course
    46 min
  • Tracking task executions, identifying missing tasks, and long episode names

    Jake 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 links

    • thenPingMe()
    • Laravel model states
    • Jack Ellis
      • Serverless Laravel Course
    • Paul Jarvis
    56 min
  • Privacy focus, email woes, and too much logging

    Jake 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 & businesses

    Show links

    •  I was Google's Head of International Relations. Here's why I left.
    • FBI 'persuaded Apple to halt iCloud encryption'
    • Paul Jarvis
    • Jack Ellis
      • Serverless Laravel; a video course for Laravel Developers who want to scale their applications using Laravel Vapor
    • Above Board, a podcast from Fathom Analytics
    • Build your SaaS
      • Justin Jackson
    • Caleb Porzio
      • Sponsor Caleb on GitHub to get early access to Sushi
    55 min
  • Barbara Walters, queue woes, and email processing

    Jake and Michael return for 2020 to discuss all things Barbara Walters, Redis queues, processing email in Laravel, and an overdue update on thenping.me

    Be 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 links

    • Barbara Walters
    • Laracasts Snippet - A brain dump on fatherhood
    • Redis
    • Laravel Horizon
    • Laravel Mailbox
    • spatie/pdf-to-text
    • spatie/pdf-to-image
    • thenping.me
    57 min
  • Reviewing code with new developers

    In 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 links

    • Jefe's question
    • tlint - an opinionated code linter from Tighten
    • StyleCI - The web coding style fixer
    • Laravel coding style ruleset for php-cs-fixer by Jason McCreary of Laravel Shift
    • Michael's Laravel style guide
    • Spatie's development guidelines
    • Vue style guide
    • Michael reviewing large pull requests
    59 min
  • Tracking bugs in releases, upgrading to Laravel 6, and highly available databases

    Jake 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
      • 54 min

      About North Meets South Web Podcast

      From the publisher's feed

      Jake Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers