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

  • Tenanted files, testing batch jobs, and enhanced enumerations

    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.

    Show links

    • Trailer for Mastering Postgres
    • Aaron's podcast with Glauber Costa
    • Extending enums with attributes
    • Laracon AU
    48 min
  • Remote pairing around rounding errors with a pint

    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.

    Show links

    • Tuple
    • Laramates
    • Around
    • brick/math
    • brick/money
    • Pint
    • Running Pint on GitHub Actions
    • Husky
    • Whisky
    53 min
  • The one with environment config

    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.

    Show links

    • Australian men on the phone to each other
    • Go ahead, delete your .env.example file
    41 min
  • The one with bubbly water

    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.

    42 min
  • The one with feature flags

    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.

    Show links

    • Fool's mate
    • Tim MacDonald
    • Introduce 'before' hook
    37 min
  • JSON vs Polymorphism and editable index pages

    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.

    Show links

    • My User Guide
    • Liquid Death
    40 min
  • Laravel 11 learnings, nested validation, and the simplicity of Laravel

    Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, nested validation, and the simplicity of using a batteries-included framework like Laravel.

    Show links

    • Laravel Bootcamp
    • Laracasts
    • Laravel Up and Running
    • Onramp to Laravel
    • Laravel Shift
    39 min
  • Verbs, stolen chargers, and Laravel 11

    In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Verbs, a take on event sourcing that strives to be simpler and more obvious to grok, children stealing device chargers, and some things to remember when upgrading to Laravel 11.

    Show links

    • Verbs
    • Laravel Shift
    51 min

About North Meets South Web Podcast

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