Elliot's Tech Blog

To start with, I use `spatie/laravel-markdown` on my personal site—not everywhere, but in spots, including my blog. Laravel Markdown uses...

I recently discovered that I was accidentally rerunning queries when authorizing access to models *and* re-applying global scopes that were...

It's been a while since I started a tiny toolbox project and I finally picked it back up recently. I...

It's been a while since I've written my last blog post or touched this project. I've had my share of...

If you get much of your messaging about "being a dev" online, having a technical blog, building side projects, and...

*Feel free to skip to the "Hello Laravel, my old friend" heading for the meat of the post. (Sorry, no...

When other devs hear about PHP, a lot of them think of WordPress—and rightfully so. It's the old man of...

A lot of programming involves abstractions—a *lot* of abstractions: classes, traits, wrapper functions and components... Hi, my name is Elliot,...

If you've read my other blog posts, this is going to be a bit different: more chatty instead of technical....

By now, anyone who's started a new Laravel project knows Laravel has started using Vite out of the box instead...