Dev Blog

I’m trying to write more often about things I learn in programming — specifically with the Laravel framework and modern PHP.

• Preview Laravel’s migrations with the pretend flag
  Here is the command to preview your Laravel migrations without running them: Laravel’s migrations give us the power to easily version control our database schema creations and updates. In a recent task at work, I needed to find out why a particular migration was failing. This is when I discovered the simple but super-useful flag… Continue reading Preview Laravel’s migrations with the pretend flag
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  Setup and version control — Financy
  Financy is split into two codebases — both of which will be hosted on Github. Version control My idea is to do proper release versions of this as and when new features are released. And to keep the release versions of both the frontend and backend linked. I’d like to also make a point of… Continue reading Setup and version control — Financy
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  Financy — blogging a new side project build
  A few months back I started building a personal finance planner for planning finances and running particular scenarios depending on whether I bought different things at different times. I ended up leaving it but really want to get back into it.I have also decided to try to start blogging my progress with it as I… Continue reading Financy — blogging a new side project build

Journal

These are my long-form write-ups of anything from films and tv, to horror manga and PS4 games.

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  Sinister14 October 2021
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  Californian Soil by London Grammar13 October 2021
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  Poltergeist12 October 2021
  Watched this for the first time at Odeon cinema.
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  Catitude12 October 2021
  Kiki got some real attitude