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Matthew Daly

I'm a professional PHP, Python and Javascript developer from the UK. I've worked with Django, Laravel, Angular and React, among others, and my speciality is APIs and Cordova apps.

UK Joined on Sep 8, 2018 https://matthewdaly.co.uk

Work

Technical Developer

Design patterns, refactoring, Next.js, Typescript, Psalm

PHP, Python, Javascript, SQL, Phonegap, REST APIs, React.js

A flat file PHP CMS, targeting brochure sites, with an emphasis on a better developer experience. Development ongoing at https://github.com/chinstrap-cms

37 posts published

242 comments written

23 tags followed

Sep 20 '21

Dynamic image handling with Glide and GraphQL

#php #laravel #graphql

7 min read

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Dec 30 '20

Lightweight Laravel - deconstructing a full stack framework

#php #laravel

11 min read

Oct 4 '20

What I want in a PHP CMS

#php

9 min read

Jun 14 '20

Flow typed AJAX responses with React Hooks

#react #flow #javascript

4 min read

May 14 '20

Does technical debt make burnout more likely?

#discuss #career #productivity

2 min read

Mar 11 '20

Caching the Laravel user provider with a decorator

#php #laravel

3 min read

Feb 13 '20

The trouble with integrated static analysis

#php

5 min read

Feb 10 '20

Don't use stdClass

#php

4 min read

Jan 26 '20

F*** PHPStorm Man and the high horse he rode in on

#watercooler #editors #programming

10 min read

Dec 16 '19

Unconventional backends and data sources

#watercooler

1 min read

Oct 28 '19

Input components with the useState and useEffect hooks in React

#react #javascript

4 min read

Oct 14 '19

Flexible data types with the JSON field

#php #mysql #laravel

5 min read

Sep 22 '19

Storing Wordpress configuration in environment variables

#php #wordpress

3 min read

Sep 21 '19

Using Mix versioning outside Laravel

#php #laravel

3 min read

Sep 8 '19

Setting private properties in tests

#php #tdd

2 min read

Jul 30 '19

Skipping environment specific PHPUnit tests

#php #tdd

3 min read

Jul 13 '19

What have you been watching on TV lately?

#watercooler

1 min read

Jun 20 '19

Powering up git bisect with the run command

#git

3 min read

May 14 '19

Writing golden master tests for Laravel applications

#php #tdd #laravel

5 min read

Mar 6 '19

How much difference does adding an index to a database table make?

#sql #performance

3 min read

Feb 26 '19

Searching content with Fuse.js

#javascript #search

3 min read

Feb 20 '19

Higher-order components in React

#react #javascript

3 min read

Feb 9 '19

Creating your own dependency injection container in PHP

#php

13 min read

Jan 29 '19

Understanding query objects

#php

5 min read

Jan 20 '19

Writing a custom sniff for PHP CodeSniffer

#php

4 min read

Jan 9 '19

You don't need that module package

#php #laravel #composer

3 min read

Jan 3 '19

Why bad code is bad

#productivity #coding

5 min read

Dec 31 '18

Improving search in Vim and Neovim with FZF and Ripgrep

#vim

2 min read

Dec 7 '18

Decorating service classes

#php

4 min read

Nov 19 '18

Simplify your tests with anonymous classes

#php #tdd

3 min read

Nov 26 '18

Adding React to a legacy project

#react

4 min read

Nov 18 '18

Understanding the pipeline pattern

#php #pipeline

5 min read

Nov 20 '18

How I'm refactoring a Zend 1 legacy project

#php #legacy

11 min read

Sep 9 '18

Switching from Vim to Neovim

#vim #neovim

5 min read

Sep 8 '18

Better strings in PHP

#php

4 min read

Nov 18 '18

Rendering different views for mobile and desktop clients in Laravel

#php #laravel

4 min read

Nov 24 '18

Check your code base is PHP 7 ready with PHP Compatibility

#php

2 min read

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