Co-founder and CTO at Workvivo. Likes to code with React, React Native and Laravel.
February 21, 2018 • 2 minute read
To post large (>15 MB, >30 second) videos using the Twitter API, you need to use their chunked media upload API rather than the basic media upload API. This is a little more complicated, but thankfully it's still pretty straightforward. In this post I'll be using the Codebi...
September 25, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into a problem this morning when I tried to launch a React Native app I've been working on in the iOS Simulator using the command: $ react-native run-ios The build would fail completely and return the error message Could not parse the simulator list output. That's not good!...
September 20, 2017 • 2 minute read
Today DigitalOcean announced a great new product called Spaces that is essentially a much cheaper version of Amazon's S3 object storage product. For $5 per month, you get 250GB of storage and 1TB of bandwidth included. This would cost over $95 per month with S3. Additional storag...
September 11, 2017 • 7 minute read
Want to provide your customers with a quick and simple way of styling your Laravel application to match their corporate brand? This post is for you. If you've ever customised Bootstrap with Sass (or LESS) before, you already know how simple it is to drastically change the visual...
September 6, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into a problem today while trying to test out a Laravel API protected with OAuth2 via Laravel Passport. Essentially any time I tried to use Postman to consume an API protected by the auth middleware, it would return an error response with the message Unauthenticated. After...