Christopher Pitt

Writing a book about PHP framework dev

15th June 2020

Pay no attention to this. I thought it would be practical to make a page for people to land on, so Matthias can link to it in his book before Apress has even set something up.

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This is how you made it → Part 1

14th June 2020

Chris. If you're reading this, it's because you went and forgot about how you did a thing. I'd be inclined to call you a forgetful lummox, but the only reason I'm writing this is because I know I'll forget.

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Time for another update...

10th June 2020

Last week I got physically sick, and the best anybody could tell me was that stress caused it.

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OinkPop Privacy Policy

22nd May 2020

Not my usual blog content, but Apple have requested I have an actual privacy policy for OinkPop, and this is the best place I could think of to add it.

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Hosting daemon apps on Forge

2nd February 2020

I've been building many Next apps, recently, and that means configuring my servers to maintain a daemon. It also means I need to send the usually Nginx traffic to the daemons, and restart the daemons when I have new code to deploy. I think I've reached a point where I can document the process, so others can try non-PHP apps in Forge.

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Adding Mailchimp to Next.js

27th August 2019

I was chatting to my friend about putting a newsletter sign-up form on the blog he's busy making. Then it occurred to me that I didn't have one on my blog, and that I didn't even know how I was going to embed a Mailchimp sign-up form in a Next.js site.

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Prettier PHP Code

22nd August 2019

I'm sick and tired of having to research how to do this, every time I set up a new machine. So, I'm writing this for me as much as I'm writing it for you. I'm going to show you a couple tips for displaying and formatting PHP code, in VSCode...

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Oh, the places you'll go

9th June 2019

It’s been a while since I wrote here, mostly because I’ve got so much going on that I’ve had to choose between building and talking about what I’ve been building.

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Making a development app

11th February 2019

I like to code on the go, but I don’t always like to bring my laptop with me. So, I’ve tried many iPad apps centred around coding, Git repository management, and code execution.

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“What is this s#*t?!”

19th January 2019

A few days ago, Caleb Porzio demonstrated some work he’s been doing to replicate Phoenix LiveView in Laravel. I’ve been building PHP preprocessor stuff for a long time, and this really inspired me to try the same thing.

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