Be Honest With Your Projects

You're starting a new project. Awesome! 🎉 New projects are exciting. You have the idea. You have an execution plan in mind or on paper. You're starting to gather some necessary prerequisites. But do

Building In Public: Kickoff

Today I kick off building my first product in public. The product: a direct-to-consumer retail product business, selling customizable "on this day"-style artwork printed to various mediums. The primary goal: to create

January 2021

January. The month when we push the reset button, set new goals for the year, and turn up the heat here in Wisconsin (the low tonight is -15ºF 🥶). How did January 2021 go

Magic Call Methods & Static Context in PHP

PHP's dynamic nature makes it an extremely flexible language. It can also mean confusion if you don't understand the inner workings and/or logic behind the "magic". Today, I learned an intriguing thing

Hashed Passwords Using Symfony's AliceBundle

When using AliceBundle [https://github.com/hautelook/AliceBundle] for fixtures in my Symfony project, I ran into an issue creating hashed passwords for users. Some things I tried based on brief research that