Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda

North Meets South Web Podcast

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

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Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda

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Technology

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Jul 2, 2026

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Episodes

Insurance, validation outside of HTTP requests, and event sourcing 08.03.2020

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 Serverless Laravel Course coc.vim

Hiding magic strings, leveraging language files, and reaching for vendor libraries 23.02.2020

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

Tracking task executions, identifying missing tasks, and long episode names 09.02.2020

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

Privacy focus, email woes, and too much logging 27.01.2020

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 Serv...

Barbara Walters, queue woes, and email processing 12.01.2020

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...

Reviewing code with new developers 17.11.2019

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 styl...

Laracon AU retro, working with third-party auth providers, and thenping.me 03.11.2019

Michael provides a retrospective on Laracon AU 2019, Jake discusses working with third-party auth providers, and we discuss the ongoing development of our SaaS, thenping.me This episode is sponsored by CTO Sumo and was recorded live . * Laracon AU * Thenping.me

MC'ing events, testing .test domains, and shaping thenping.me 21.10.2019

Jake and Michael discuss MC'ing events, the perils of testing between Valet sites on .test domains, and shaping their upcoming SaaS, thenping.me . This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and was streamed live .

Tracking bugs in releases, upgrading to Laravel 6, and highly available databases 07.10.2019

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...

Refactor a legacy UI, then ping me 15.09.2019

Jake and Michael discuss the perils of refactoring the UI of a legacy app, and the SaaS they've been working on; thenping.me This episode is sponsored by Makeable . This episode was streamed live . Show links Refactoring UI Selling stuff on a busy beach by Justin Jackson Monitoring Laravel scheduled tasks with thenping.me

Decision folders, escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaS 25.08.2019

Jake and Michael discuss the inclusion of a decision folder in your project repo, quickly escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaS. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, CTO Sumo . This episode was streamed live .

Monitoring scheduled tasks, Inertia and Livewire, and "microservices" 11.08.2019

Jake and Michael discuss monitoring scheduled tasks in Laravel, Inertia and Livewire, and "Microservices". This episode is sponsored by Workvivo Show links This episode was streamed live ! Healthy Hacker Oh Dear Cronitor Why build X when Y exists? Inertia.js Livewire Framework

North Meets South Meets No PlansTo Merge 28.07.2019

Jake and Michael catch up with Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne at Laracon US 2019 for a day one recap.

Basecamp, old people names, and managing issues 26.06.2019

We start the episode with a bit of rambling, slip in some state machines, talk about old mates Ethyl, Beryl, and Dean, and get into discussing how we each manage the barrage of feature requests from our customers. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Andreas Hubenthal ! Show links Basecamp No Plans To Merge Laracon US

Scaling databases, dispatching jobs, and taking charge of teams 19.05.2019

Jake and Michael discus the perils of scaling the MySQL database for an application, the handiness of dispatching jobs, and taking charge of development teams. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable ! Show links MySQL slow query log Postgres query planner MySQL EXPLAIN ProxySQL Can't create more than max_prepared_stmt_count statements with ProxySQL Laravel.io codebase

Theodor Geisel, complex validation, and compiled assets in git 21.04.2019

Michael and Jake discuss the books of Theodor Geisel, complex validation and when to reach for form requests, and discuss whether or not you might store compiled assets in your version control. Thanks to CTO Sumo for sponsoring this episode! Show links Theodor Seuss Geisel Fox in Socks Form request validation Dealing with compiled files in git Laravel self-diagnosis by Marcel Pociot

Getting Shifty with JMac 07.04.2019

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by JMac to discuss maintainable code, keeping your Laravel codebase up to date, and more. Show links JMac (Jason McCreary) Laravel Shift BaseCode Laravel by the numbers Practicing YAGNI Shift like a pro Shifty Coders Workshops by JMac Jesse Schutt YouTube Website Michael's Laravel style guide

Laracon Online, payment processing, and handling webhooks 17.03.2019

Jake and Michael recap Laracon Online, event sourcing, payment processing, sharing migrations and models, and handling webhooks. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Makeable ! Show links Laravel event projector EventSauce Laravel EventSauce Stripe Nomad Vagabond Composer platform config

Logging stacks, proxying SQL, and database clusters 17.02.2019

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss logging stacks in Laravel, ProxySQL and Galera Cluster, and state machines (which have started to grow on Michael) Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Andreas Hubenthal! Show links Logging stacks Galera Cluster ProxySQL MySQL binary logging

Queued jobs, web sockets, and exceptional bailouts 28.01.2019

Jake and Michael discuss queueing jobs at scale with Laravel Horizon, web sockets implementations, and using exceptions to bail you out of handling falsey conditions. This episode brought to you by CTO Sumo Show links SELinux Laravel Horizon Apache Kafka websocketd Throwing arbitrary validation exceptions in Laravel - Otwell Recommended ™️

New year goals, returning to the gym, and snow shovelling alternatives 14.01.2019

Jake and Michael return for 2019, sharing their personal and technical goals for the year, talk about refactoring legacy code and introducing tests, and Jake shares more of his adventures with Laravel Nova. Show links Laracon US git quick-stats Preventing scheduled task overlap Handling configured trim values in Horizon XState

Third annual North Meets South meets Dads in Dev meets TJ Miller meets Chris Gmyr Belated Christmas Extravaganza Podcast 01.01.2019

Jake and Michael are joined by David and Andrew of the Dads in Dev podcast, along with TJ Miller (not the actor/comedian) and Chris Gmyr to wrap up 2018 and look ahead to 2019 #cashmoney This show was (not) recorded in front of a live studio audience . Show links Laravel Nova David's Laracon AU talk Andrew's Egghead videos Webflow Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 strength program Adam Wathan on the Laravel Pod...

Vue transitions, file uploads, and conventional wisdom 03.12.2018

Jake and Michael record a live episode, and discuss Vue transitions, file uploading, and share some conventional wisdom. Show links The Grinch Vue transitions FilePond Doka.js Laravolt Spindrift Thanks to Joe Lennon, Andreas Hubenthal, Rasmus C Nielsen, and JP Davy for sponsoring the show ❤

Reconstructive surgery, time management, and scaling infrastructure 18.11.2018

Jake and Michael catch up for the 50th episode and discuss Michael's ACL reconstruction, time management, and scaling infrastructure. Show links SoundStripe Spindrift sparkling water The Defined Dish Greg Baugues Jocko WIllink Apple Screen Time Vuex Adam's Tailwind/vue-cli starter Refactoring UI jsonbin

Laracon AU, form building, and advanced learning 14.10.2018

Jake and Michael discuss the very first Laracon AU, designing and building forms, using Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, and advanced learning. Show links Expressions Bootstrap Tailwind CSS Laracon AU Shop Talk podcast Refactoring Guru 7 patterns to refactor fat ActiveRecord models

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