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I’ve just been down a rabbit hole. It started with wanting to cut back on boilerplate and ended with being able to highlight code in Reveal.js using tempest/highlight. Along the way, I made my first web component.

Let me share a little secret with you, about Filament. You probably know you can make custom pages, but what’s not immediately obvious is that you can still use Filament’s form components without having to butcher a resource class or reinvent it from scratch. This isn’t well documented, but at least it’s easy once you know how…

Gitstore was a project I built, with Jason and Shawn. The idea was to make it easier for developers to rent out access to their private Github repositories, and to accept payments via PayPal or Stripe. At the time, nobody was doing this...

In mid 2023, I started building a JavaScript game engine, called Floaty. I volunteered to teach non-programmers how to program in JavaScript. The most entertaining way I could think of to do this would be to help them build a game.

This was my first foray into teaching game development in Godot. Apress wanted the book to target the upcoming version of the engine, which meant I had to write most of the book while it was still in alpha. As you can imagine, there were many revisions as APIs stabilized.

The first edition of this book was the first book I wrote for a publisher. It sucked. So, when I got the chance to rewrite it (under the guise of a second edition), I jumped at the opportunity.

Who is your favorite superhero? Mine is Iron Man. Not because he’s noble or even very good. It’s because he builds cool suits. I’ve never felt more like Iron Man than when I modified a LEGO Technic set so that I could control it with computer code.

One day, while staring out the window at all the async/await languages playing ball, I wondered what it would take to do the same in PHP. This talk became the answer to that question.

Bouncy Cars is probably my favourite game, so far. I miss the days of sitting on a couch, giving a good friend a thorough whooping, in a racing game. If you’ve ever played Micro Machines, this slightly inferior take on the genre may interest you!

Invasion is a game about trying to stay hopeful in a hopeless situation. I made it for a game jam, around the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Years later, war still rages. How can one talk about a game they’re proud of making, when the horrors it hints at are a reality for a dwindling population?

Multi-tenant apps are cool because they can work for many brands, with a single codebase. They may generate more money than single-tenant apps, but they also tend to be a lot more complex. They don't have to be, though...