journal.teisenhower.dev

Open Source | Commented on Ray extension Github Issue They wanted me to open a PR! WTF!? My PR

Migrating a project from Webpack to Vite The customizations I needed to add to the config due to the unique nature of the project's folder…

All Laravel routes 404ing We were getting the nginx 404 page which told me something was wrong with the nginx config. Previously this site…

Haven't had much to report lately. Work has been a little less exciting with the kind of work that I've been on. A lot of maintenance items…

MySQL SSH Tunnel for Laravel Blog Post

AWS SQS Message restrictions I attempted to send a payload that was too large to be processed by sqs. This payload was a json create…

Rate Limiting Route HTTP Rate Limiting Docs For Hoover I needed to rate limit how many requests could come into the Tractor sync and I found…

Back to basics Fundamental PHP and OOP

Required .env vars In the or method of AppServiceProvider This will make sure the .env var is both present and not empty

My first middleware

Laravel Factories Spent some time this weekend doing some "house cleaning" on a project we have underway at work. No real heavy dev work…

Reflecting on the last few weeks Work has been a little crazy the last few weeks. A lot of tight deadlines, unexpected challenges and…

Using scopes with eager loading Had a situation today where I needed to eager load a relationship but I wanted also wanted utilize a local…

Laravel's "Magic" The post in Slack

Solving the Hoover Tractor INVOICE issue Using an Accessor in order to pad the INVOICE when calling it from a relationship. But this breaks…

Eloquent Deep Dive I encountered another unique problem that I've been struggling to find a great solution for. This ties back to the other…

Batching Jobs Got to do something new today! I had the opportunity to work with batching Laravel Jobs which was pretty awesome. It was a lot…

Working with databases you don't maintain This is something we've come up against a handful of times where we are building an application…

Finding repeat occurrences in MySQL Found myself diagnosing an issue today and my debugging journey led me to needing to determine how many…

Estimates suck Let's be honest; no one really likes providing estimates. There's always this looming sense of dread that we're either going…

The There is something I've recently stumbled across with all of this new Eloquent work I have been doing and would like to dive deeper…

SQL Server | Comparing strings with whitespace Ran into an annoying issue today dealing with string comparison in SQL Server. At first I…

Finally made use of Laravel's method We're on a stretch here recently of using Eloquent methods I don't often get to. In this case, this…

Implemented a relationship I don't often get to reach for the so whenever I am able to pull this little trick out of the old dev hat, it…

Failing Laravel Jobs Reviewing a PR today that used both Jobs and Actions. There was an issue where if the HTTP request in the Action failed…

GraphQL with Laravel | Lighthouse GraphQL simply replaces your typical restful api endpoints Edges and Nodes GraphQL uses this concept…

Underscores and private methods #TIL That prefixing your method names with an was a way to indicate the method is a private method. This is…

Starting journal.teisenhower.dev The concept I'm back to wanting to put out content again (shocker). However, this time I am taking a…