North Meets South Web Podcast

North Meets South Web Podcast

Michael Dyrynda

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

26 minutes 22 seconds

Large file uploads, scrambled spotlights, and preparing for Laracon AU
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss large file uploads without double-handling them, generating API documentation for your app, and the mad rush of the last two weeks before this year's Laracon AU
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24 October 2024, 1:17 pm
45 minutes 31 seconds

Dynamic images, Livewire slots, and API-based file uploads

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (clever?) ways to generate dynamic images for OpenGraph purposes, how a missing slot variable sent Michael mad, Jake's adventures with API-based file uploads, and some more details about Laracon AU.

10 October 2024, 1:27 pm
51 minutes 4 seconds

Fake drivers with Jason Beggs
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jason Beggs from the Laravel team to discuss the approaches they're taking to fake interaction with third-party services during development of their upcoming product, Laravel Cloud.
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26 September 2024, 2:02 pm
47 minutes 42 seconds

Tenanted files, testing batch jobs, and enhanced enumerations
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss potential security considerations around segmenting file uploads per tenant, approaches to testing batch jobs in Laravel, and perhaps the untold power of using enums in PHP.
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12 September 2024, 1:43 pm
52 minutes 42 seconds

Remote pairing around rounding errors with a pint
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (inadvertently) bathing keyboards, pairing with remote colleagues and friends, using rational numbers to deal with rounding errors (sort of), and running code style fixers in CI or as a pre-commit hook.
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22 August 2024, 2:00 pm
40 minutes 15 seconds

The one with environment config
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss different approaches to configuring a Laravel app, for consistency, security, and shareability among a team and across environments.
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- Australian men on the phone to each other
- Go ahead, delete your .env.example file
8 August 2024, 2:02 pm
41 minutes 10 seconds

The one with bubbly water

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the line between soda and bubbly water, Laracon AU, two-way SMS conversations, and the implications of not knowing maths as a programmer.

25 July 2024, 1:30 pm
36 minutes 44 seconds

The one with feature flags
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss feature flags, particularly the freshly-released before hook, and the perils of incorrect eager loading as your application scales.
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11 July 2024, 2:00 pm
39 minutes 27 seconds

JSON vs Polymorphism and editable index pages
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss whether you should push polymorphism to the database or settle for a simple JSON field, and we discuss options for rendering multiple edit fields on an index page.
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- My User Guide
- Liquid Death
27 June 2024, 2:00 pm
43 minutes 43 seconds

Music, feature flags, and making the new one do what the old one did
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss music we're into at the moment, using Pennant for feature flags in Laravel, and the age old set of requirements: "it needs to do everything the old one did"
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29 May 2024, 2:00 pm
32 minutes 51 seconds

The one about onboarding junior developers

Jake and Michael discuss bowling, onboarding new junior developers right out of college, and the mindset required to be able to teach people the very basics of programming (and reading).

2 May 2024, 2:00 pm
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