Twitter cards are a great way of making links to your site stand out to other twitter users. They can be used to provide additional information and an image about your page, from within twitter when you expand a tweet. Examples include twitter summary cards that provide a title, description and image, or product cards that can provide information such as price or product category.
I was following a bus the other day and it was so slow. It started me thinking about the design of a bus and how could it be imporved with modern technology. Some of the problems with buses include:
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Upgrading a Laravel Vapor app to PHP 8.2
I recently updated a Laravel app running on Laravel Vapor to PHP 8.2. I was a bit nervous about the upgrade but it went smoothly for me. This article goes through the steps I went through to upgrade, from local development environment, dependencies, testing and deployment to vapor.
Building a VS Code Extension for Gutenberg blocks
I have been tasked with building a new website using WordPress. The last time I used WordPress was a few years ago and involved using Advanced Custom Fields to build custom pages and layouts. Things have changed a lot over the years and now there is the built in Gutenberg editor, which uses blocks to create a custom layout and add content. The trouble was, there didn’t seem to be great support in Visual Studio Code for the blocks, as they use HTML comments.
Using Pest to test Laravel Livewire validation rules
Last year I wrote a post about testing Laravel Livewire validation rules with PHP Unit. This post uses the same techniques as that post, but shows how to transfer it to Pest instead of PHP Unit.
