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

  • Airdrop, user-specific S3, and frontend complexity

    In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss using Airdrop to simplify and speed up your asset compilation and application deployment, restricting access to S3 buckets based on username, and some of the complexities around building your frontend.

    This episode is brought to you by our friends at Workvivo - The leading employee communication app.

    Show links

    • Nucleus
    • Laracon AU
    • Airdrop
    • Deploying with Airdrop
    40 min
  • State machines, pending objects, and named constructors

    Jake shares news of a package he's working on to help define state charts in PHP, then we get into the weeds on the pending object paradigm, as well as using named constructors as an alternative to "new-ing" up a class.

    Show links

    • Hot Rod
    • State Chart XML
    • Stately
    • David K Piano
    • How to avoid large function signatures by using pending objects
    • Formatting exception messages
    44 min
  • The one with the successful first-time conference speaker

    Jake and Michael (but mostly Jake) share some advice that might help some first-time conference speakers when they're preparing to give their talks.

    Show links

    • State Machines - Laracon US 2023
    • Keith Damiani - Connecting the dots - Laracon US 2019
    • Aaron Francis - Publishing your work - Laracon US 2023
    • Deckset for Mac
    • How to make the most of a design conference
    33 min
  • Sipping Whisk(e)y with Len Woodward

    Jake and Michael are joined by Len Woodward to discuss sharing git hooks over Whisk(e)y and lifecycle hooks in Laravel.

    Show links

    • Len Woodward
    • Whisky
    • Lifecycle hooks in Laravel
    • Laravel ffmpeg tools
    42 min
  • World champions, deploying from GitHub Actions, and feature flags

    Jake and Michael discuss the world champion Denver Nuggets, building assets and deploying apps in GitHub Actions, and feature flags with Laravel Pennant.

    This episode is brought to you by our friends at Workvivo - The leading employee communication app.

    Show links

    • Cache dependencies in GitHub Actions
    • Laravel Pennant
    40 min
  • Bitmasks, reflected DTOs, and Aaron Francis

    After (another) month-long, scheduling-conflict hiatus, Jake and Michael are back!

    This episode is brought to you by our friends at Workvivo - The leading employee communication app

    Show links

    • Spikeball: The basics
    • Bitmasking in Laravel
    • Bit functions and operators in MySQL
    40 min
  • Be kind. Speak truth. Don’t wait. with Matt Stauffer

    Jake and Michael are joined by Matt Stauffer to discuss his journey and taking over more of an operational role within the consultancy he co-founded, Tighten.

    This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

    Show links

    • Matt Stauffer
    • Tighten
    • Introducing Laravel Valet
    • Laravel Valet 4 beta announcement
    • Valet multi-OS support branch
    56 min
  • The one about line feeds and carriage returns

    Jake and Michael discuss the perils of line feeds (and sometimes carriage returns), snapshot testing, and dealing with false-positives when processing API requests.

    This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

    Show links

    • Snapshot testing with PHPUnit
    • A practical introduction to snapshot testing
    • Laravel SOAP client
    42 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