27th February 2023

Have you ever been using the Laravel Request class and found yourself creating single use variables just for type casting? What if I told you there's a better way...

7th January 2023

A few years ago my weight was approaching 23st (322lb / 146kg) but I decided enough was enough, and started attemping to loose weight, reaching my target for my wedding of 12st 7lb (175lb / 79kg) in September 2021. Since then, a few pounds have snuck back on, and its time to get them off again.

21st May 2022

As a thank you to the Critical Care ward at Royal Stoke Hospital following a family emergency, me and my mother in law raised over £1,600 by completing the fastest zipslide in the world.

15th January 2022

From my humble beginings in 2002 to first starting to learn PHP in 2004 and later to Laravel in 2018. Find out my history with web design and development and what lead me down this path as a young teenager.