North Meets South Web Podcast

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 motio...

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-source...

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

In this episode, Jake catches up with Sam Carré again to discuss his latest package, Saloon, which gives you a beautiful, standardised way to build your own API integrations. Show links Sam Carré Saloon

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss delicious cured mystery meats, faking Wordle as a form of code Kata, and using SMS as an interface to your applications. This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live . Show links Wordle Jake's Wordle solution faker - use sensibly

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new job, YAGNI, and approaches to working your way into a new codebase and a new industry. This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live . Show links Laravel Transporter Saloon YAGNI ClickUp Allen Holub on building software better and building better software 

Jake and Michael are joined by No Plans To Merge's Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne, as well as TJ Miller (not the actor), and Chris Gmyr to look back at 2021, forward to 2022, and a very one-sided end of year game of Family Feud. This episode is sponsored by Makeable , WorkVivo , and for the first (and last) time, White Cheddar Cheez Its . This episode was streamed live . Show links David Hemph...

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's change in job (again), and when you might choose single table inheritance over polymorphism. This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live . Show links No Compromises Laravel test generator Parental Pushing polymorphism to the database

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Statamic's Jesse Leite to discuss some of the various content authoring strategies available in the flat-file content management system, Statamic. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live . Show links Jesse Leite Statamic

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss a number of tools used for pair programming, approaches to statically generating sites in PHP, and show that despite Statamic existing in the Laravel community for many years, they have absolutely no idea how it actually works. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live . Show links Sublive StreamYard Around Tuple CSS Trick...

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the all the work to consider before introducing tests to a vanilla PHP app, trusting people over adding layers of process, and seeing data in your tests and migrations. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo . Show links Abusing Laravel for fun and profit by David Hemphill at Laracon AU 2018 Oh Dear's migration to Spark Next Strangling legac...

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss some of the challenges faced when modernising deeply legacy PHP applications. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo .

In this episode, Jake and Michael remember 9/11, talk about upcoming PHP 8.1 features, Data Transfer Objects, and approaches to optimising your database. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live . Show links Birds Aren't Real Data Transfer Objects spatie/data-transfer-object MySQL slow query log EXPLAIN statements Notion's questionably heavy static marketing site

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss 2021's AFL finals series, cricket, reinvigorating deeply legacy code, and some approaches for testing Laravel Spark. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo . Show links What is AFL? Aussie rules explained Jack McDade catching a tarpon GitHub Actions Laravel Spark Checking plan eligibility Laravel Dusk Supported PHP versions Laravel's Statefu...

In this episode, Jake speaks with Aaron Francis about his project Sidecar. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo . Show links Sidecar Torchlight Hammerstone

In this, our 100th episode, Jake and Michael reminisce over the past five years of the show, discuss having (and then not having) kids, testing form validation, testing around third-party boundaries, and solving scaling issues on thenping.me. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo . Show links Knights of the Flexbox Table Testing validation in Laravel by asserting a Form Request Bui...

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss some different approaches (or lack thereof) and tools for managing development projects, hiring developers, and centralised knowledgebases. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk . Show links 3-day potty training The Oodie Basecamp Tara project management The new GitHub issues Confluence

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Yaz Jallad as he embarks on the journey of becoming a full time freelancer. This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and was streamed live .

In this episode, Jake and Michael dive into Michael's Vim and his attempts to #DispelTheMyth around how much work is required to make it a solid option for working with PHP. Show links PEBKAC, but it's Australian Vim coc.nvim phpactor Vim's autocompletion for PHP Michael's not trying to convince you to change what works for you vim-plug Make VS Code awesome Ben Orenstein on Vim Onramp to Vim Maste...