Programming 10 March 2025 Improving Poor Array Validation Performance in Laravel Since we don't live in an ideal world, sometimes need to validate unreasonably large http requests.
Programming 11 July 2023 Querying & Paginating S3 Data There's no denying that Amazon AWS's S3 product is pretty fantastic and very flexible. It's especially interesting when you leverage S3 Select to query your
Programming 3 August 2022 Implementing Dynamic Multiselect with Laravel Livewire and Alpine using ChoicesJS I recently had a need to populate the available options for a multiselect component with values from a remote API. ChoicesJS supports this, though it's
Javascript 26 July 2022 Redirects with 11ty and Netlify Static site builders are pretty great, but how do you go about setting up redirects when you inevitably move or replace a page? Thankfully, Netlify
Laravel 6 June 2022 Laravel Mix won't watch my changes. Laravel Mix's watch and watch-poll commands have stopped working on one of my computers, for unknown reasons. Here's how I worked around the problem.
Programming 6 November 2019 Leveraging bulk inserts instead of CreateMany() in AdonisJS Adonis' ORM is great, but it's very easy to ignore performance and ship something suboptimal without thinking about it. Here's how to avoid that.
Programming 2 July 2019 Auto Retrying aws-api-gateway-client requests, with delay between retries... aws-api-gateway-client allows for automatic retries, but can we configure the delay between retries?
AdonisJS 29 November 2018 Ironium Queues with AdonisJS - aka I released an npm package Many months back, when I first started working on moving our production application off of Meteor onto Adonis, I did some exploring on queue options
Programming 6 November 2018 Using Meteor Passwords in AdonisJS (4.x) Extend AdonisJS' auth provider to add new auth schemes and/or serializers.
Programming 31 August 2018 Data Migration Woes #1: How I improved an import by 5x with one extra query I'm rearchitecting the data layer of an app moving from mongo to postgres. Today, I improved performance of a migration 5x by adding one extra query!
Programming 14 August 2018 Relatively Painless Autoloading in Node.js It seems a fairly common pattern I encounter in Node-based codebases is an index.js file that simply imports a bunch of other files, and then exports them all in an object
Programming 9 August 2018 Replicating Meteor's Password Implementation Migrating away from Meteor, but want to let users continue using the system without forcing them to reset passwords? Turns out not to be too difficult to accomplish.
Programming 31 July 2018 Adding middleware to routes defined within third party Adonis addons As the Adonis community continues to grow I suspect the number of third party addons that are available will continue to grow as well. But sometimes it's helpful to make small changes to their default behavior that isn't clearly exposed in config.
Programming 17 July 2018 Validating Compound-Field Uniqueness in AdonisJS (4.x) AdonisJS provides a lot of really nice stuff out of the box for rapid development of an application, but as with any framework occasionally there are bits missing that would be useful.
Programming 13 July 2018 Overriding Core Providers in AdonisJS (4.x) I've been working with AdonisJS (4.1) lately on a rebuild of some services and such at my job. Today we noticed that password reset tokens contained plusses, and we wanted to see about changing that.
