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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m looking forward to learning from @marty.friedel.au once more. The prodigal son has returned.

Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I'll be presenting tonight at @phpxmel.com on Refactoring to Actions. We will look at making your code more focused, testable and reusable by using actions, specifically Loris Leiva's Laravel Actions package. I'll also be paying homage to @adamwathan.com's Refactoring to Collections.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

That’s impressive Joe, well done! I need to find time to run in amongst work and kids. Are you training up for an event?

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Same here. I actually have never looked at other ways of producing the url.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I dogfood Maintainly for this! I have time-based automations for which bins are being collected, the bed linens that need changing, when the kitchen and bathroom need cleaning. I use a tiny amount of the features I’ve actually built for it, but it has given me huge insight into the UI/UX.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Another great episode. Great to see @grogsgamut.bsky.social on the panel, Australians need more of him in their lives.

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Joe Tannenbaum @joe.codes · 25/03/2025

Reminder: PHP × NYC next week! I think we're going to do a little show-and-tell format instead of a talk, RSVP if you think you can make it: phpxnyc.com/meetup/2025-...

phpxnyc.com

PHP × NYC | A fresh PHP meetup for NYC area devs

A fresh PHP meetup for NYC area devs. Kicking off in 2024

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

docs.saloon.dev I used to use the providers sdk but you just end up with a bunch of different ways to do things, or different wrappers. Now I use saloon, and love it. Thanks Sam Carré

docs.saloon.dev

Saloon | Saloon

Build beautiful API integrations and SDKs with Saloon

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PHPxMEL @phpxmel.com · 12/03/2025

Next up we have Allison Guilhem coming back to present: Asynchronously Juggling with Symfony HTTP Client We will explore a little-known tool, the AsyncDecoratorTrait feature of the Symfony HttpClient component. www.meetup.com/php-melbourn...

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PHP Melbourne March 2025 , Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Eventy link: https://eventy.io/events/zmgpmg24 Come and hangout with the Melbourne PHP community, enjoy some talks, and hopefully learn a few things about full-stack devel

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PHPxMEL @phpxmel.com · 11/03/2025

We are excited to announce that @simonhamp.me will be joining next week via video with Building NativePHP for mobile. A behind-the-scenes dive into the "magic" that allows us to run Laravel apps directly on mobile devices and access native features. www.meetup.com/php-melbourn...

meetup.com

PHP Melbourne March 2025 , Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Eventy link: https://eventy.io/events/zmgpmg24 Come and hangout with the Melbourne PHP community, enjoy some talks, and hopefully learn a few things about full-stack devel

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A great write up Marty and an action packed year for you. Happy New Year. All the best for 2025. ❤️

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Cancer Bats are sooo good. I also saw them this year in Melbourne. It was the fourth time I’ve seen them. They always put on such a great show, great lads to chat with as well. Strange to see them pop up in my tech socials! Rock out Di!! 🤘

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

You’re killing it Arunabh! I love watching your creations. Keep it up!

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I would also suggest trying the database installed on the runners to see if that helps.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Check out the DatabaseTruncates trait. I added it a few years ago and it should speed up your dusk test significantly. Also, I recommend using octane in your dusk tests. You’ll get a nice bump there as well. The built in server falls over too much and can’t handle parallel requests.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I’m here for this. Which printer did you get?

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

At least you know what to do when Jack has trouble sleeping! 5km pram run!

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Looking forward to it Joel. Keep up the great work.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A while ago I refactored our #TypeScript SDK so that the method call matches the @laravelphp.bsky.social route names. It's a much nicer DX, even the request and response data is typed. I'll write this one up into a blog post at some point.

Code showing a much nicer way to make API calls.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

All of my best work is in git stash.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you're using @laravelphp.bsky.social's `ThrottleRequestsWithRedis`, clearing the attempts can get a little tedious. This is due to the Redis database connection being used instead of the Cache, and the key being md5 hashed. Here is a trait that is particularly helpful in Dusk Tests.

A PHP Trait that helps clear route attempts.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I needed one of my favourite @laravelphp.bsky.social helpers in TypeScript. So simple, but so helpful for cleaning up code.

The Laravel tap helper function re-written in typescript.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I've been listed in a Laravel Starter Pack, so I thought I would move some of my coding tweets across to here... turns out most of them are Typescript-related. 😜 I need to up my Laravel posting game.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Interesting. It was a noticeable jump for our case. Maybe the service containerisation has improved since then.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Did you end up using the database the runner comes with? We spoke about it on Space Karen's platform about 12 months ago. You should find a nice speed bump.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

That was my bad. I had planned to get it but got swept up in the Laracon waves. I’ll get it to you.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Beetroot and pineapple on a burger is my go to. Next time you’re in Melbourne I’ll take you to The Napier hotel for a Bogan Burger. Steak, chicken schnitzel, bacon, egg, potato cake, pineapple, beetroot, onion, tomato, cheddar with wedges and salad. 🍔 You’ll have enough calories to run home.

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Comment under a Guardian article… ‘I think we are slowly seeing the rejection of the major parties who are more and more obviously tethered to entities that exist outside of the electorate's interests’ #auspol

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Remember to use your secret weapon Aussies.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Because eventually we will all have to verify our age, and that will turn a lot of users off social media. That age verification could include uploading id linking online accounts to people. It’s a stasi wet dream.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you follow the cancel subscription flow, they will offer you some discounts.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ve also had good response on LinkedIn and from reaching out to local agencies that I know use PHP. Building community is difficult, but rewarding.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

phpx.world looks promising for our corner of the meetup world. A big part of growing community is attracting new devs to php. Meetup is, unfortunately, still important for discovery.

phpx.world

PHP×

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🙋🏻‍♂️ My product @maintainly.com was born from the wind energy industry. Been working on it since 2008.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hopefully sponsors can cover it. I know a few organisers that pay out of pocket for these expenses but companies profit from growing the local community not the organisers. Sponsorship is great when you have it. Stressful when you don’t.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey Steve, here are some topics I wish I knew more about when building APIs. Producing documentation. Returning dynamically generated files. Generating Typescript types from endpoints. Handling different data for the same resource at list/show endpoints. ie. Summary vs detail resource.

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Patrick O’Meara @patrickomeara.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Nice. I’m a big Expo fan. Let me know if you get stuck anywhere.

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