Michael Dyrynda
Dad. @laravelphp Artisan. @LaraconAU organiser. Co-host of @northsouthaudio, @laravelnews, @ripplesfm. Opinions are mine.
Appears in 182 Episodes
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...
Industrial shifts, polymorphism, and single table inheritance
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's change in job (again), and when you might choose single table inheritance over polymorphism.
Authoring Statamic content with Jesse Leite
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Statamic's Jesse Leite to discuss some of the various content authoring strategies available in the flat-file content m...
Programming in pairs, statically generated PHP, and how even does Statamic work?
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss a number of tools used for pair programming, approaches to statically generating sites in PHP, and show that despite Statamic...
Bringing tests into vanilla PHP apps, trust over process, and seeding tests
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the all the work to consider before introducing tests to a vanilla PHP app, trusting people over adding layers of process, an...
Augmenting, refactoring, and modernising deeply legacy code
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss some of the challenges faced when modernising deeply legacy PHP code.
PHP 8.1, DTOs, and optimising your database
In this episode, Jake and Michael remember 9/11, talk about upcoming PHP 8.1 features, Data Transfer Objects, and approaches to optimising your database.
Finals footy, deeply legacy code, and testing Laravel Spark
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss 2021's AFL finals series, cricket, reinvigorating deeply legacy code, and some approaches for testing Laravel Spark.
Riding Sidecar with Aaron Francis
In this episode, Jake speaks with Aaron Francis about his project Sidecar.