Jake Bennett
Christ follower, web dev designer @wilbergroup and @laravelphp fanboi. Co-host of @northsouthaudio and @laravelnews with @michaeldyrynda
Appears in 165 Episodes
Large file uploads, scrambled spotlights, and preparing for Laracon AU
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss large file uploads without double-handling them, generating API documentation for your app, and the mad rush of the last two ...
Dynamic images, Livewire slots, and API-based file uploads
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (clever?) ways to generate dynamic images for OpenGraph purposes, how a missing slot variable sent Michael mad, Jake's advent...
Fake drivers with Jason Beggs
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jason Beggs from the Laravel team to discuss the approaches they're taking to fake interaction with third-party service...
Tenanted files, testing batch jobs, and enhanced enumerations
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss potential security considerations around segmenting file uploads per tenant, approaches to testing batch jobs in Laravel, and...
Remote pairing around rounding errors with a pint
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss (inadvertently) bathing keyboards, pairing with remote colleagues and friends, using rational numbers to deal with rounding e...
The one with environment config
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss different approaches to configuring a Laravel app, for consistency, security, and shareability among a team and across enviro...
The one with bubbly water
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the line between soda and bubbly water, Laracon AU, two-way SMS conversations, and the implications of not knowing maths as a...
The one with feature flags
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss feature flags, particularly the freshly-released before hook, and the perils of incorrect eager loading as your application s...
JSON vs Polymorphism and editable index pages
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss whether you should push polymorphism to the database or settle for a simple JSON field, and we discuss options for rendering ...
Music, feature flags, and making the new one do what the old one did
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss music we're into at the moment, using Pennant for feature flags in Laravel, and the age old set of requirements: "it needs to...
The one about onboarding junior developers
Jake and Michael discuss bowling, onboarding new junior developers right out of college, and the mindset required to be able to teach people the very basics of program...
Laravel 11 learnings, nested validation, and the simplicity of Laravel
Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, neste...
Verbs, stolen chargers, and Laravel 11
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Verbs, a take on event sourcing that strives to be simpler and more obvious to grok, children stealing device chargers, and s...
The one with Ripples, Forge previews, and Laracon
Jake and Michael discuss another of Michael's podcasts, Ripples, setting up review sites on Laravel Forge with Ryan Chandler's Forge Previewer, and speaking and attend...
The one about sending email
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the differences between transactional and campaign email and some approaches to sending them. We also touch on Jake speaking ...
The one with the Lumberjack
Jake and Michael get a sneak peek into Laracon AU 2024, discuss Michael's migration to Snowflakes, and Jake's challenge around preventing multiple windows open for the...
Looking back on Laracon AU
Jake and Michael look back on the return of Laracon AU after a four-year break.
The one with all the JSON API stuff with TJ Miller
Jake and Michael are joined by TJ Miller to try and untangle their confusion about JSON API, Open API, Swagger, and JSON Schema from last episode.This episode is broug...
DIY woodwork, React micro-frontends, and confusing OpenJSONAPISchema
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss building your own monitor stand, the mysterious world of React micro-frontends, and get confused about JSON API, Open API, Sw...
Dads in Dev, cloud services, and static-site generation
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss using Airdrop to simplify and speed up your asset compilation and application deployment, restricting access to S3 buckets ba...
Airdrop, user-specific S3, and frontend complexity
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss using Airdrop to simplify and speed up your asset compilation and application deployment, restricting access to S3 buckets ba...
State machines, pending objects, and named constructors
Jake shares news of a package he's working on to help define state charts in PHP, then we get into the weeds on the pending object paradigm, as well as using named con...
The one with the successful first-time conference speaker
Jake and Michael (but mostly Jake) share some advice that might help some first-time conference speakers when they're preparing to give their talks.Show linksState Mac...
Sipping Whisk(e)y with Len Woodward
Jake and Michael are joined by Len Woodward to discuss sharing git hooks over Whisk(e)y and lifecycle hooks in Laravel.Show linksLen WoodwardWhiskyLifecycle hooks in L...
World champions, deploying from GitHub Actions, and feature flags
Jake and Michael discuss the world champion Denver Nuggets, building assets and deploying apps in GitHub Actions, and feature flags with Laravel Pennant.This episode i...
Bitmasks, reflected DTOs, and Aaron Francis
After (another) month-long, scheduling-conflict hiatus, Jake and Michael are back!This episode is brought to you by our friends at Workvivo - The leading employee comm...
We're back, Laracon AU is back, and state machines are back
After a month-long, scheduling-conflict hiatus, Jake and Michael are back.Laracon AU is back!And our favourite topic, state machines, is back!
Upgrading Laravel, static analysis, and speeding up tests
Jake and Michael discuss the very, very, very momentous occasion of Michael finally getting to work both a modern version of Laravel and PHP, some of the twists and tu...
Be kind. Speak truth. Don’t wait. with Matt Stauffer
Jake and Michael are joined by Matt Stauffer to discuss his journey and taking over more of an operational role within the consultancy he co-founded, Tighten.This epis...