Michael Dyrynda
Dad. @laravelphp Artisan. @LaraconAU organiser. Co-host of @northsouthaudio, @laravelnews, @ripplesfm. Opinions are mine.
Appears in 170 Episodes
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...
The one about line feeds and carriage returns
Jake and Michael discuss the perils of line feeds (and sometimes carriage returns), snapshot testing, and dealing with false-positives when processing API requests.Thi...
The one about permissions
Jake and Michael discuss some different approaches to role-based permissions, and how to tackle assignment, management, and authorisation of them.
A Belated Christmas Extravaganza
Jake and Michael are joined by TJ Miller (still not the actor), Chris Gmyr, and David Hemphill (neither of whom are actors, either) to look back at 2022, forward to 20...
The one about documentation
Jake and Michael discuss the various forms of documentation that can live within an organisation, where to put it, how to find it, and how to keep it up to date.
Developer's Minifesto, agile theatre, and misccellaneous rambling
Jake and Michael discuss the developer's minifesto, some of the theatre that goes into organisational Agile, and Michael goes off on some incoherent rambling about all...
Evaluating value objects, unspeakable forks, and moving validation down
In this episode, Jake and Michael talk more about using value objects, forking Saloon and backporting it for PHP 7.4 support, and moving validation deeper into your ap...
Encrypted environments, encrypted data, and magic constructors
Jake and Michael discuss the new environment encryption functionality in Laravel, encrypting application data, and using (very?) magic named constructors.
Scheduling conflicts, validation beyond the request, and the return of in-person events
Jake and Michael discuss some ways to leverage Laravel's validation functionality along with value objects to improve your validation logic, refactoring applications, ...
Using SOAP with Luke Downing
Jake is joined by Luke Downing to discuss working with and testing SOAP interfaces with modern PHP.
Iterating on large features, bubbling exceptions, and composable actions
Jake and Michael discuss approaches to building multi-week features, leaning on Laravel to handle bubbling up of exceptions, and using composable actions to provide mu...
Migrating from Vapor, green energy, and housing your validation
Jake and Michael discuss migrating thenping.me off of Laravel Vapor and the teething issues that ensued, which somehow segued into provisioning of green energy, and en...
Managing integrations, gently improving coding practices, and housing your validation
Jake and Michael discuss using the concepts within Saloon to manage integrations with third party APIs, how a newcomer to a business can help an existing team modernis...
Speeding towards Vite, Shifty workbenches, and documenting your applications with JMac
Jake and Michael are joined by Laravel Shift's Jason McCreary (JMac) to discuss to latest frontend tooling for Laravel, Shift Workbench, and approaches to documenting ...
Keeping review time down, deleting your .env.example file, and securing your secrets
Jake and Michael discuss some approaches to keeping pull request review times short, and using 1Password to free you of having to keep track of your environment variab...
Electric trucks, multiversal madness, and choosing TALL
Jake and Michael discuss pool pumps, electric trucks, Doctor Strange (no spoilers), and when you might choose and use the TALL stack.
Refining workflows, social media rabbit holes, and migrating from Bootstrap
Jake and Michael discuss Australians pronouncing words, Matt Stauffer's glorious beard, with a treacherous detour into recent political discussion, before correcting c...
A boy's first footy game, scheduling Vestaboard messages, and a thenping.me update
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael taking his son to his first game of footy, approaches to handling variable message scheduling for Jake's Vestaboard, ...
Vim throwdown, Part 4
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Eric Van Johnson to talk more about Vim, using Vim bindings in other editors, similarities and differences between them...
Vim throwdown, Part 3
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jess Archer to talk more about Vim, covering motions, text objects, managing projects, working with tmux, and more.
Vim throwdown, Part 2
In this episode, Jake and Michael continue their journey down the Vim rabbit hole, and cover thrilling topics such as the leader key, custom bindings, vim-test, and Gi...
Vim throwdown, Part 1
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jesse Leite, and kick off a mini-series on using Vim for PHP development.
Using Saloon to integrate external APIs with Sam Carré
In this episode, Jake catches up with Sam Carré again to discuss his latest package, Saloon, which gives you a beautiful, standardised way to build your own API integr...
Cured mystery meats, faking Wordle, and SMS as an app interface
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss delicious cured mystery meats, faking Wordle as a form of code Kata, and using SMS as an interface to your applications.
New year, new job, new start
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new job, YAGNI, and approaches to working your way into a new codebase and a new industry.
A Christmas Extravaganza
Jake and Michael are joined by No Plans To Merge's Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne, as well as TJ Miller (not the actor), and Chris Gmyr to look back at 2021, forwa...