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

Type-safety, BladeX, and HTML emails 30.09.2018

Jake and Michael return to discuss the introduction of further type-safety in PHP, BladeX, finite state machines, and rendering HTML emails. Thanks to Spatie for sponsoring our show. Show links PHP typed properties Infinitely better UIs with Finite Automata BladeX - custom HTML components in your Blade views Introducing view components in Laravel Laravel View components (package) Maizzle

Reinventing form controls, typing ahead, and converting MySQLi to Query Builder 18.09.2018

Jake and Michael return after a two month (!!) summer hiatus Show links Syntax - Accessibility Full Stack Radio - Building accessible UI components Bootstrap Themes

Nova, bootleg live streams, and static site hosting 24.07.2018

Michael and Jake return just in time to talk about the upcoming secret Laravel project, Nova, Laracon US 2018, static site hosting, and more! Show links Nova Freek's live Nova stream Laracon prizes Tighten coding challenge Laracon 2017 talk recaps Jigsaw GitHub Pages Netlify Michael's Laravel style guide Netlify forms Dads in Dev Laracon AU 2018

Event sourcing, auditing, and finite state machines 30.05.2018

Jake and Michael make their return to discuss event sourcing, auditing and reporting, and finite state machines after a busy real life schedule kept them away from recording for a month! Show links Deep Work A package that makes event sourcing in Laravel a breeze Event Sauce That Podcast: The one where we talk to Shawn about Event Sourcery, CQRS, Event Sourcing and GDPR Full Stack Radio: Frank de...

ANZACs, queues, and file uploads 25.04.2018

Jake and Michael return in an irregular time slot to discuss ANZACs, scaling Laravel, queues, handling file uploads, and more! Show links Anzac Day Remembrance Day Memorial Day Veterans Day Scaling Laravel Laravel Forge 50% off Forge for three months RabbitMQ Iron MessageQueue Pusher Spatie Medialibrary Full Stack Radio - DHH - Stimulus in Practice + On Writing Software Well Spatie's new t-shirts

Mechanical keyboards, shared databases, and code thoughts 08.04.2018

Jake and Michael discuss their new keyboards, Michael tells us about an app using shared database models and migrations he got into production, and we both discuss the code thoughts experiment on Telegram. Show links Apple Magic Keyboard 2 CODE Clear Anne Pro Etymology of alumin(i)um Sharing databases between Laravel applications Code Thoughts Subscribe on Telegram

Stimulus, Glitch, and smart speakers 12.03.2018

Jake and Michael talk about the latest open source contribution from Basecamp, Stimulus, keeping up to date with new technology, and smart speakers. Show links Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have Full Stack Radio - DHH - Stimulus in Practice + On Writing Software Well Turbolinks On writing software (well?) Taylor Otwell revisiting value object casting Syntax FM -...

Work, Books and Movies, and Controversy 26.02.2018

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Cash Money Cowork members TJ Miller and Andrew Del Prete to talk about work, books and movies they've been reading, and controversial topics. Show Links PCI Compliance Shiplap Musicbed Iron Gold Wolf 359 Ars Paradoxica This American Life Invisibilia S-Town Docker Swarm Kubernetes Black Panther AFLW The Founder The truth about employee engagement Lara...

Drop sets, engaging stakeholders, and real time stats with Matty Lantz 11.02.2018

Jake and Michael were joined by Matty Lantz and covered such topics as working out, the recently completed Laracon Online, engaging stake holders, and real time stats with Facebook Insights. Show links Matty Lantz Taylor's daddy/daughter dance Drop sets Comparing PHP and Ruby This American Life Laracon Online Steve Schoger Laravel Horizon Chris Gmyr Laura Elizabeth Design Academy Red-Green-Refacto...

Model accessors, style guides, and Nomads 28.01.2018

Jake and Michael return for 2018 and discuss model accessors for relationships, documenting style guides, shared database migrations, and more! Show Links Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Model accessors & mutators Michael's Laravel style guide Spatie guidelines Nomad Vagabond Spatie Dashboard Pusher #fivemindev Breville Barista Express Great Wild Coffee Laracon AU

The second annual Dads in Dev meets North Meets South meets TJ Miller Christmas Extravaganza web podcast (Part One) 10.12.2017

Andrew Del Prete, David Hemphill, and TJ Miller join Michael and Jake for their second annual Christmas crossover podcast. We talk about things we learned, best memories, favourite books and movies of 2017 and what we're looking forward to in 2018, as well as play a little Christmas trivia. Part Two Show Links Firefox Quantum Vue.js devtools for Firefox Trolls Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood Moana Wonde...

Professor Plum in the library with a wrench 26.11.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael talk about Clue, Laracon, working with legacy applications and migrations, machine learning, and CSRF protection. Show links Laracon AU Laracon US Laracon Online Laracasts Laravel 5.4 from scratch What's new in Laravel 5.5 Sequel Pro Laravel migration exporter Laravel migrations generator Jordon Brill Machine learning Google Tensor Flow Amazon Machine Learning IBM...

Secret trips, status pages, and communication 13.11.2017

In this episode, Michael teases about the secret purpose of his Sydney trip, before moving on to the topic of status pages and reporting service disruptions, as well as communicating with peers. Show Links AirPods Andreas Xero Spatie's form-backend-validation JavaScript package StyleCI Alt Three Services Catchet Botman Flexbox CSS Grid Tailwind CSS Atomic CSS Flexbox Zombies What the Flexbox?! Foc...

Code reviews, view composers, and Stranger Things 29.10.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael speak about Thor: Ragnarok and Stranger Things 2, before diving into reviewing code and view composers. Show Links Stranger Things 2 Thor: Ragnarok AirPods Wyze Cam F-Bar 2.0 Using Laravel Mix for your WordPress theme View composers Sharing data with all views (View::share) Create and share images of your code dnsrecords.io Spatie Media Library Shout outs Wilbur P...

Promises, Empathy, and the Ivy Lee Method 15.10.2017

Jake and Michael talk late into the night about Andrew Del Prete's JavaScript Promises course, uploading files to Amazon S3 with DropzoneJS, books they've been reading, and more. Show Links #fivemindev by Andrew Del Prete ES6 Crash Course vue-resource axios A riddle wrapped up in a mystery... DropzoneJS Rework by Jason Fried and DHH The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey The I...

Aussie slang, deep delegation, and gathering requirements 01.10.2017

Jake and Michael return to share some of the Aussie slang Jake has been learning and cover such groundbreaking topics as this year's Hacktoberfest, deep delegation, gathering requirements, and more! Show Links Superloop Hacktoberfest Gistlog Markdown to Medium Fire daemon Minio: An open source S3-compliant storage service Browsershot by Spatie

Managing timelines, wireframing, and nested Laravel applications 03.09.2017

Jake and Michael continue with their developing journey and share their approaches to managing timelines. They also talk about different wireframing techniques and setup some future episodes with discussion around containing multiple applications in a single Laravel install. Show Links Agile Software Development Scrum Jason Fried - How to make deadlines actually work Kanban Kanban Quick and Easy G...

Conventions, configuration, and becoming a lead developer 20.08.2017

Jake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus and discuss Michael's new role as a lead developer and the slightly softer focus for the podcast moving forward. Show Links Jake's Anchor.fm station Why Laravel? (Thread) Responsable interface Laravel News Podcast Adam Wathan's example So about this Googler's manifesto Vue.js Filters Computed properties Full Stack Radio 70: Jeffrey Way - Vue.js tac...

Podcasting, side hustles, and the importance of being earnest 25.06.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by up-and-coming Laravel community members Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne for a casual chat about a wide array of topics from podcasting, to side hustles, and the importance of being earnest. Guest starring Caleb Porzio Daniel Coulbourne Show links Fits + Starts Twenty Percent Time es6-resource-client Sharing data in a Laravel/Vue application 5 Love...

Making users, shared sessions, and production deployments 11.06.2017

In our golden episode, Jake and Michael talk about making users in a Laravel app, sharing sessions between servers and applications, and answer a listener question on our production deployment workflows. Show Links make:user package Package auto-discovery in Laravel 5.5 API token authentication in Laravel 5.2 & 5.3 Adldap2 - Laravel Jenkins pre-commit by Yelp GitFTP-Deploy git-ftp Surge Testin...

Vue components, chainable jobs, and life after thirty 28.05.2017

Jake and Michael talk about how simple Vue makes life, chaining jobs in the upcoming Laravel 5.5, and Michael's upcoming 30th birthday. Show Links Laravel 5.5 changelog Adding chainable jobs Taylor's chainable job tweet Taking care of backups with Laravel Spatie's Laravel Backup package

Eloquent observers, managing client expectations, and Laravel packages 14.05.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael talk about Eloquent observers and answer listener questions about managing client expectations and packages we use in our Laravel applications. Show Links Eloquent observers Eloquent isDirty method Eloquent relationships Dash devdocs.io Sueprcharge your Laravel Tinker workflow Caleb Porzio Daniel Coulbourne Twenty Percent Time Laravel Debugbar Sentry Laravel Colle...

HTTP clients, container tagging, and foreign keys with Paul Redmond and TJ Miller 30.04.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael welcome Paul Redmond and the returning TJ Miller to have the HTTP client discussion you were promised last time. We also dig into container tagging in Laravel, as well as working with foreign keys in your projects. Special Guests Paul Redmond Lumen Programming Guide Docker for PHP Developers TJ Miller Show Notes Freestar Jeffrey Zeldman Eric Meyer Dan Cederholm Ex...

Docker, Rancher, and Geocities with TJ Miller 16.04.2017

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by TJ Miller to talk about Docker, Rancher, and journies in development through Geocities and MySpace. Special guest: TJ Miller Show Links International Bancard Docker Rancher Amazon RDS Laradock Laravel Valet Interview with Mohamed Said Phalcon PHP Benchmarking Laravel, Symfony, & Zend xkcd workflow Codepen JS Fiddle Using Guzzle 6 middleware in a...

WordPress, UUIDs, and testing revelations 02.04.2017

This episode, Jake and Michael speak about working with UUIDs in Laravel, Wordpress, and testing mindsets. Show Links Store UUID in an optimized way Laravel model UUIDs Laravel efficient UUIDs Build APIs You Won't Hate by Phil Sturgeon Advanced Custom Fields Australia's Science Channel Divi by Elegant Themes TDD; one thought at a time, complete it before starting another Running Laravel Dusk on Tr...

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