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...
September 1, 2017 • 1 minute read
A common issue you might experience when working on a Laravel application is the exception: RuntimeException No application encryption key has been specified. You'll often run into this when you pull down an existing Laravel application, where you copy the .env.example file to...
March 11, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into an issue this evening while working on a Laravel application. I was adding some mail functionality and set the MAIL_FROM_NAME environment variable to my name. Later, I got the following error message when I tried to load any page in my application: Fatal error: Uncaugh...
March 9, 2017 • 3 minute read
If you're new to audio editing software like Adobe Audition, it can feel a little overwhelming when you open the application and use it for the first time. In this post, I'll walk through some basic settings that will help you create your first podcast recording in Audition. The...
March 7, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into an interesting issue the other day while working on a Laravel project that handles inbound email using Amazon SES and SNS. Basically, I needed to be able to send a webhook from SNS to my application whenever an email was received in SES. As you may have experienced in...