Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas

@steve-coding.bsky.social

Building software for business and for fun with Laravel at Coding Labs. Our open source work: https://github.com/codinglabsau

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Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

There must be “reasons” why our national meteorology website can’t support https, but every year it becomes a little more comical. Also 0/10 points for mobile responsiveness - fair to say a few people are using a mobile device while a cyclone bears down on us 😬

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

One of those annoying problems i've encountered is how to dynamically load Vue components, but avoiding having to essentially eager load everything upfront. Welp, after a long weekend, 10ish hours 😅, 4,545 browser tabs and dozens of chats with AI, I finally cracked the riddle.

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

import.meta.glob() takes care of discovering all the possible components (for Inertia people, bear in mind Pages are already registered, so don't put the components there). With the component ready to import, we then simply need to register it with vue. Example use case: user generated templates

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

It’s funny to think how the internet is the Wild West, and as software developers we play cat and mouse with people trying to hack or DDoS our apps pretty much 24/7/365. Sure, some of it is easily blocked, but sometimes it is sophisticated, and blocking whole countries is an ok solution.

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

We don’t get any meaningful help from authorities, and hacker capabilities are improving at least as fast as our own. It’s not like the authorities have abandoned us online, they were just never there in the first place. I’m not sure I even want them to catch up, but better firewalls would be 👌🏻

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

TIL that people live stream on IG / TikTok holding up products and saying “this one is 5 bucks”, then someone comments “buy” and then the streamer sends a PayPal link to the buyer. And this actually works and takes market share from established ecommerce sites. Frankly I’m impressed 🤯

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Annual “holy shit it’s December” moment is currently underway. Equal parts panic (about the various 2023 wip items that I want to tick off) and opportunity (what do I need to fix for 2025 and let’s do that now). In other words, starting a new list before I finish the old list 😂

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Hello, World! I’ve used Laravel Forge and Vapor since launch. Things I like: - yml manifests - zero downtime deployments - autoscaling Things I don’t like: - docker - lambda limitations Is it sane to build my own open source high-availability infra CLI tool for AWS, and would anyone use it?

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Plot twist; I've already built 60% of the tool (currently closed source), and i've been using it on a very busy Laravel app for a few months. The benefits are that I retain full control of AWS (Laravel Cloud 🤔), I can run small apps cheaply, or split large workloads across autoscaling groups.

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

I’m almost done working through provisioning the compute stack, and moving toward a single install command that can do all the things after a few prompts. Will post about the internals and make this open source as soon as it works, even if we at Coding Labs are the only ones who use it

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Nice to see Bluesky at #3 and X at #74 for top free apps in Australia! Of course a gambling app sits at #2 😂 With events like Laracon putting Bluesky on people’s radar, here’s hoping to see more AU developers here 🤞

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Had a great time with the Coding Labs crew at Laracon AU! More importantly, got around the room and chatted with many speakers and attendees rather than hiding in the corner like prior years! Big thanks to @dyrynda.au for making this biggest and best AU Laracon!

Steve Thomas
@steve-coding.bsky.social

Considering a last minute hotel booking for #laraconAU - so awesome to be just up the road from the Gold Coast for the first time, but I just thought about After Dark 🍻 -> last train home -> early train back for the first time 😬

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