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2026

Building listentotaxman-cli with OpenCode + Claude Sonnet 4.5

2025

Building gh-saved-issues using ChatGPT Codex

Automated npm secret rotation in GitHub Actions

Run a container on a schedule with ECS

❤ Pin your GitHub Actions

2024

Designing OpenAPI schemas

2023

GitHub Actions notifications in Slack

❤ Accessing secrets from forks safely with GitHub Actions

Set created_at with GitHub Actions when a PR is merged

Providing both default and named exports in JavaScript

Testing Node.js SDKs with nock

GitHub scheduled reminders

Check permissions in a GitHub Actions workflow

2022

Running gickup on a QNAP NAS

Secrets management in Kong is now GA!

Announcing general availability of Kong Gateway 3.0

API composition with StepZen and Kong

Managing multiple environments with Konnect and Runtime Groups

Using openvpn-client with Docker

❤ The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern

2021

Log4j, Log4Shell and Kong

4 ways to leverage Kong's jq plugin

❤ Test experimental versions with GitHub Actions

❤ Dynamic matrix generation with GitHub Actions

❤ Getting started with problem matchers

❤ The ultimate guide to GitHub Actions authentication

Deploying a Kong Gateway data plane with Pulumi

Getting started with event hooks in Kong

Kong-plement your ServiceHub with a dev portal

Test OpenGraph image generation on Netlify locally

Migrating from Kong Gateway OSS to Konnect

Building a Kong Gateway plugin with JavaScript

Dump context action

Auto-approve workflow action

Markdown Meta action

❤ Generating OpenGraph images with Netlify on-demand builders

GitHub Slug action

Create or Update PR action

Pause Laravel queue execution

GitHub Push action

Add and Commit action

Git auto-commit action

Require Labels action

Merge Schedule action

Perform an action on team creation with Laravel Jetstream

Dedicated test databases with Laravel Sail

Faster GitHub Actions with Build and Tag Action

Ensure your GitHub Actions are pinned to a SHA

2020

❤ Show GitHub Actions

git shortlog reviewed-by

Follow GitHub Link headers with Bash

Semantic versioning for GitHub Actions

❤ Improve your GitHub Actions security

2019

GraphQL is powerful, but the experience isn't designed

Create a GitHub Action using actions-toolkit

Testing GitHub Actions with act

Create a GitHub Action with Docker

Play an audio file into a voice call with PHP

2018

Building a Turkey Timer with Laravel and Facebook Messenger

Call whisper with selective audio controls

Multitrack call transcription with split recording

Custom content types in Hugo

Creating a new Hugo theme

Receive an inbound voice call with PHP

Receiving SMS delivery receipts with PHP

Receiving an SMS with PHP

Dual channel call transcription with Nexmo

PSR-15 middleware, Zend Expressive and versioning

Middleware, Slim and versioning

Nexmo at Midwest PHP 2018

Real-time messaging with Nexmo and Laravel

Text-to-speech calls with Laravel and Nexmo

Speech-to-text with IBM Watson and PHP

Working with the Google Calendar API in Node.js

Google OAuth with Node.js

So, you want to be a wizard?

Sending and receiving SMS Laravel notifications with Nexmo

2017

A talk about naming things

Text-to-speech voice calls with PHP

Sending SMS messages with PHP

2FA logins with Laravel and Nexmo

SlimPHP and Symfony dependency injection

Bootstrap a new Laravel project with user authentication (in 5 minutes)

ChatOps with Nexmo Verify

Autoloading controllers with Composer in SlimPHP

Using controllers with SlimPHP

Using layouts with Twig and SlimPHP

Adding Twig to your SlimPHP project

Creating a new SlimPHP application

Customising the AuthController in Laravel Spark

2016

Test Kitchen, Docker and CentOS 7

Selecting a team via the URL in Laravel Spark

Git and Node.js on Azure Functions

2015

curl: (35) error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca

curl: (58) unable to set private key file: 'server.key' type PEM

Self-signed SSL client certificates

Special cron entries

git and diff-highlight

2014

Writing an Ansible module using PHP

Using var_export to unit test existing code

alembic - Python migrations quick start

virtualenv and pip - a Python environment in 60 seconds

2013

A better git diff

Force flush headers using the HTTP module for Node.js

Explain, from your shell

Useful git commands

A better git log

Working with large files with sed

Weekly breakdown - gxpr

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Building from source

Building for now

Uncaught exceptions

Debugging Node.js memory leaks

Sending messages to certain clients with Socket.io

2012

Behat + Selenium2 / WebDriver with MinkExtension

Behat + Selenium2 / WebDriver

The AWS Heisenbug