The Low Hanging Fruit of DX
A collection of tips from 20 years of coding
Mike Francis' Blog
UK based Engineering Lead, Software Engineer
Latest posts
Retool to GCP Pub/Sub
Publishing messages from Retool to Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Upgrading Laravel
Documenting my process of moving through major Laravel upgrades.
Modern full stack JavaScript
Thoughts about migrating this website from Next.js to Astro, and full stack development in general.
The Ack Pattern
A common but key pattern to establish in product/operations/engineering teams
Automated accessibility testing
Learn how to use the popular cloud platform Vercel and the Cypress testing framework to automate away accessibility testing.
Engineering Management
Personal reflections after half a year of being an Engineering Manager
Next.js + Preact
A step-by-step walkthrough to replace React with Preact for smaller bundle sizes
Quick project environments
Do you know your Password Manager can (probably) do a lot more than store passwords?
Technical Leadership
A whistle-stop tour of my interpretation of Technical Leadership, and the advice that got me to where I am today
Testing in Production
I've come to learn that I do not fear it, and have come instead to love it
Laravel Unleash client
Getting started with feature toggles using Unleash - the popular, open-source feature toggle package
Building a tiny GraphQL API using Next.js
With the release of Next.js v9, API routes are easier than ever
Gatsby & Tailwind CSS
Learn how to use the popular React framework with Tailwind CSS
next.js & Tailwind CSS
Learn how to use the popular SSR React framework with the utility-driven Tailwind CSS framework
create-react-app & Tailwind CSS
Learn how to use the popular React boilerplate app with the utility-driven Tailwind CSS framework
Update default Bus binding in Lumen 5.2
Detailed steps on how to override the default Bus in Laravel's Lumen 5.2
Secure Headers for Laravel
Presenting laravel-secureheaders, a Secure Headers wrapper for the Laravel framework
I Built A Thing Once and People Liked It
How to deal with the fallout of building a semi-successful product
Multiple Laravel Homestead boxes side-by-side
How to develop/test on different versions of PHP using Laravel's Homestead
Getting started with Laravel & Otto
Learn how to spin up a Laravel site using HashiCorp's new Otto platform