I felt that my minimal, PHP YouTube client was worth sharing. If you’re looking to do something similar, interacting with the YouTube API via PHP, then look no further.
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Add a Honeypot to Livewire Volt Forms
What are Livewire and Volt? Livewire allows you to build 'Powerful, dynamic, front-end UIs without leaving PHP'. For me, as a PHP fanboy, it's quickly becoming my bread and...
HermitClock development, May 2024
Following on from my recent post covering the success of hermitclock.com, I've decided I'd like to keep a record of the work I'm doing on the website. This will showcase the work...
The Success of HermitClock’s Launch
For those who don't know, HermitClock is my latest side project. It's a website which shows the live, local times for all of the active Hermitcraft members. Hermitcraft is a...
How to block WordPress comment spam with Cloudflare
A little while ago I wrote a post titled 'How to block Contact Form 7 spam with Cloudflare'. This explained how I use Cloudflare's WAF rules to prevent any spam form submissions...
Using Google Analytics on my blog after 3 years
In my experience within the web development industry, Google Analytics is the go-to solution for monitoring the effectiveness of a website, and for optimising the content. Being...
Dnsmasq Domain Resolution with Docker Compose
Dnsmasq resolves a subtle, but real problem that becomes apparent when adopting Docker Compose as a LAMP stack. By allowing containers to resolve requests to each other with custom domain names, you can ensure that all containers can…
Local PHP development with Docker Compose
Introduction This post will cover how I host local copies of PHP websites running WordPress and Laravel with Docker Compose. This removes the need to install PHP, Composer,...
Automatically update Pypi on GitHub release
Introduction This article will guide you through setting up a GitHub workflow that automatically updates your PYPI package upon a new GitHub release, using my zomboid_rcon...
Squashing Commits with Git Interactive Rebase and Reset
When working on projects both personally and professionally, I use Git for version control. More often than not, If I'm working on a fix or a new feature, I will work from a new...