North Meets South Web Podcast

Jake and Michael discuss using the concepts within Saloon to manage integrations with third party APIs, how a newcomer to a business can help an existing team modernise their development practices, and using Data Transfer Objects to push data validation to your application boundary.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

Show links

• Trevor on Lizzo's "Grrrls" lyric controversy
• API integrations using Saloon in Laravel
  • Using Saloon to integrate external APIs with Sam Carré
• Where does my validation live?

Jake and Michael are joined by Laravel Shift's Jason McCreary (JMac) to discuss to latest frontend tooling for Laravel, Shift Workbench, and approaches to documenting your applications.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

Show links

• JMac
• Laravel Shift
• Laravel Pint
• Vite

Jake and Michael discuss some approaches to keeping pull request review times short, and using 1Password to free you of having to keep track of your environment variables.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

Show links

• Go ahead, delete your .env.example file
• Managing secrets in Laravel with AWS Parameter Store
• A successful Git branching model

Jake and Michael discuss pool pumps, electric trucks, Doctor Strange (no spoilers), and when you might choose and use the TALL stack.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo.

Show links

• Reactive Laravel apps with the TALL stack
• Nova Packages
• Alpine.js
• Livewire screencasts

Jake and Michael discuss Australians pronouncing words, Matt Stauffer's glorious beard, with a treacherous detour into recent political discussion, before correcting course to migrating Bootstrap to Tailwind CSS.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk.

Show links

• How Australians pronounce words
• James Smith
• Matt Stauffer's glorious beard
• Windy
• Laravel Jetstream's Blade components

In 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 links

• Vestaboard
• thenping.me - hands-free scheduled task monitoring for Laravel

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Eric Van Johnson to talk more about Vim, using Vim bindings in other editors, similarities and differences between them, and opinionated starting points.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

Show links

• IdeaVim
• LunarVim
• System76
• Pop!_OS
• php[architect]

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jess Archer to talk more about Vim, covering motions, text objects, managing projects, working with tmux, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

Show links

• Mastering the Vim language
• The Vim learning curve is a myth
• Learn Vim on Upcase by thoughtbot
• The Art of Vim
• ThePrimeagen
• TJ DeVries
• Painting motion with the right brush
• repeat.vim
• surround.vim
• commentary.vim
• tmux-continuum
• tmux-resurrect
• zsh cdpath and autocompletion
• kitty
• vim-tmux-navigator
• vim-test

In this episode, Jake and Michael continue their journey down the Vim rabbit hole, and cover thrilling topics such as the leader key, custom bindings, vim-test, and Git worktrees.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

Show links

• What is the leader key?
• What's the difference between set and let?
• What's the meaning of inoremap in Vim?
• tee(1) manpage
• vim-sourcery
• vim-test
• tmux
• Vim Support Group on Discord

In 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 links

• Vim
• Neovim
• Why Vim uses hjkl as arrow keys
• Michael's (Neovim) dotfiles
• Jesse's (Neovim) dotfiles
• Vim Support Group on Discord