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ollieread @ollieread.com · 26/06/2026

This may quite honestly be the longest and most in-depth article I've ever written. Prepare yourselves for a brain dump of all data-isolation strategies for multitenanted web applications!

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 23/03/2026

Something like this, which is a mockup I just put together.

A screenshot of a mockup homepage for a website that provides detailed breakdowns of Laravel releases/versions

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 17/11/2025

So, I'm writing a JWT auth package for Laravel, and I've decided to first build a JWT generator package for Laravel. This is 1-2 hours work, and it's a POC which should work for any JWT generation in Laravel. github.com/ollieread/la... #laravel

Screenshot showing a default configuration for the Laravel JWT package

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 28/06/2025

This may be the lengthiest, and wordiest article I've written in quite some time. It's not even strictly about #laravel or #php!

A screenshot of the header of ollieread.com showing an upcoming article titled "Introducing the Request-dervied Context Pattern"

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 04/06/2025

Ah yes, AI porn bots have made it to Bluesky

Screenshot showing that an AI porn bit has followed you

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 28/05/2025

Who doesn't want to express an entire d20-based game system as JSON?

A screenshot of an editor showing a JSON document that expresses a function called "proficiency-value", which is used to calculate the value of a proficiency within Dungeons and Dragons 5e.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 22/05/2025

Just pushed an update including a little notice for Laravel Octane users, and what I hope to be a UX improvement on the code insights. They should now be more obvious without hovering.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 21/05/2025

I've added many new insights for this article. So far, it's just classes, methods and properties, though I'm considering adding some for things like Eloquent events.

A screenshot showing a detailed tooltip above Model::$exists that provides additional details of this property within the context of Laravel framework. It also includes links to its source on GitHub

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 19/05/2025

My next #laravel article is a long one. It's all about adding a minimal identity map for your Eloquent models in your application.

A screenshot of the first portion of an article titled "A Minimal Identity Map for Laravel Eloquent", set to be published on the 21st May 2025.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 02/05/2025

I may need to put some more thought into the more complex ones, as they can be a bit much over content.

A screenshot showing a tooltip including details about a class method referenced in the main content the screenshot is a snippet of.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 02/05/2025

I added some light insight/tooltips for articles where I reference a particular class, or method, etc.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 02/05/2025

You know what, I'm just going to write articles using HTML and Blade. The faffing to style markdown output, or customise the markup it generates, is annoying. This is quick, and simple. I am not sure why I didn't do this before.

A screenshot of an article on my website. The article is titled "How to Hide Route Parameters from Controllers in Laravel". The screenshot itself only exists to accompany the main post, and it's actual content isn't all that important.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 28/04/2025

I can't actually find a media outlet that isn't either right-wing, or right-wing aligned that's talking about this. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I'm sure it means something.

A screenshot of a google search page showing results for the topic of the NHS testing trans individuals for autism. The results show links for Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Mumsnet, The Sun, The Daily Express, Facebook, the UKPolitics subreddit, The Times and X. All known outlets for right-wing or right-wing aligned content.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 25/04/2025

Need to ensure there's only one entry in an array that matches given criteria, using Laravel? That's easy, just use arsehole. 😂

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 08/04/2025

I'm enjoying just messing around with #CSS at the moment.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 08/04/2025

Thank you. I'm delighted with how well it turned out, especially since it was an idea that popped into my head Saturday morning. The buttons are extremely satisfying!

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 08/04/2025

I spent some time this past weekend, making a vanilla CSS (well SaSS) retro-style pixelart UI kit for an idle browser-game I want to make. It’s about managing a slime farm. #ui #pixelart #css #pbbg

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 18/03/2025

Decided on some non-screen based creativity tonight. From left to right.. Patricia the troll of overgrowth Duke the troll of cheeseburgers & gherkins And Harvey the troll of business

Three polymer clay models of little trolls

A polymer clay model of a little blue troll with vines for hair and a flower growing out their head

A little blue troll, lay on his back, covered in gherkins with a cheeseburger resting on his belly

A little sparkly silver troll using a flip phone and wearing a gold chain while holding a briefcase

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 09/03/2025

Much nicer without the namespaces

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 07/03/2025

Yeah, I think this will be the icon/logo for Concise :)

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 03/03/2025

Last one, I promise. I tell you what, after this I'll have a bunch of UK themed icons 😅

Three logos that each consist of the name "Laravel UK" and a postbox to the text's left, each postbox has a different selection of colours.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 03/03/2025

Uh-oh, I hyperfixated again...

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 03/03/2025

Something like this? Though, it's making me think I should do my taxes 😅

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 03/03/2025

I think the original looks more like a casserole dish combined with an old kettle. This is more Teapot!

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 03/03/2025

Playing round with some logo design. #laravel #community

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 02/03/2025

I'm happy with the design for the Sprout site, but I'm not 100% sold on the content of the site. I think it needs more, but I'm really not a "marketing" content person. Anyone have any suggestions? sprout.ollieread.com

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 26/02/2025

What started out last night as me messing around and talking about "multitenancy-as-a-service", I've stumbled into something possibly interesting. So I'm going to explore it. Why not. #laravel #multitenancy

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 06/02/2025

I'm redoing the documentation ahead of the v1 release of @sprout.ollieread.com next week! I've streamlined and simplified it massively! #laravel #multitenancy

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 05/02/2025

Taking a look at a Laravel package. Open up the readme, bam, @cmorrell.com staring straight into my soul.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 31/01/2025

I guess I've got no choice but to test this functionality now then 😅

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 25/01/2025

Fun fact: Laravel does not allow hyphens in the name of route parameters, and rather than actually check and complain, it just assumes you want the URI to look like that.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 25/01/2025

I REALLY wanted to add feature tests for Sprout, but honestly, I don't feel like debugging all the testing tools. The route exists, it's why it didn't error when using the route helper, but it doesn't exist if I want to use it. I can't be arsed with this tbh

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 24/01/2025

It's slowly getting there!

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 13/12/2024

I think I'm favouring this modified M

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 13/12/2024

Hmm, those images don't display correctly. Hopefully this is better.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 13/12/2024

I really like the idea of cubes for the logo of a project (called Matter), but I can't decide how to go about laying them out...hmm

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 12/12/2024

It also supports "Characteristic" attributes that are basically just instantiated and attached to the field using the attribute class. They may or may not have values, and in most cases will be specific to a datasource, save for these default ones.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 12/12/2024

You can register mappings for specific types, as well as classes. If there isn't one present for the class, there are special use-cases for "Stringable" and "JsonSerializable". It _will_ also handle "components" which are basically mapped classes that aren't quite entities. Think value objects.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 12/12/2024

The basic "Field" attribute will work fine, providing there's a type mapping for the class. The extra attributes "DateTimeField" and "BoolField" (not used in the example), exist so you can provide options. I'm using it there to test that it works.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 12/12/2024

I found myself in a situation where I'd needed to just build something, just for the sake of building something, so I threw together an implementation of an idea I had. It's a PHP 8.4 datasource-agnostic datamapper. #php #opensource

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 25/11/2024

Now it’s tidy! 😅

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 25/11/2024

You lot don’t even know what messy desk means 😂

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 22/11/2024

Ah, my favourite part of a new #PHP release. The hundreds of deprecation errors from running a single line of code with virtually no dependencies.

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 20/11/2024

@driesvints.com really putting us all to shame here

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 14/11/2024

I'm blocked by 8 people, and based on the lists I'm on, some of these are entirely because I don't post porn…

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ollieread @ollieread.com · 07/11/2024

I've finally started pushing some Sprout documentation! I'm writing this all between looking for work and doing house and life chores, but we're getting closer to a v1 launch! #sprout #laravel #multitenancy

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