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🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Choose your hard. Have a listen:
Choose your hard
Michael and Jake open with retro arcade serendipity (a Mortal Kombat...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Controllers and Middleware, Grok vs. Claude, and Developer Value. Have a listen:
Controllers and Middleware, Grok vs. Claude, and Developer Value
Jake and Michael dive into a wide range of topics, from coding practices...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: LawnHub, Saloon, and Salesforce. Have a listen:
LawnHub, Saloon, and Salesforce
In this episode, Michael and Jake catch up on life and code. They talk...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Soccer terror, conference swag, and Omarchy (btw). Have a listen:
Soccer terror, conference swag, and Omarchy (btw)
In this episode, Jake and Michael catch up on life, family, and...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Laracon recap, eleven stations, and Laravel meetups. Have a listen:
Laracon recap, eleven stations, and Laravel meetups
In this episode, Michael and Jake reflect on their recent time at...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Laracon, controller middleware, and permissions. Have a listen:
Laracon, controller middleware, and permissions
In this episode, Michael and Jake kick things off with some Laracon...
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July 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Using Laravel's `rescue` helper? Make sure that you set the report flag to false, otherwise the exceptions you're rescuing will still bubble up to your observability tooling.

Here's how @dyrynda.au is using it to handle dates
July 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The @laravel.com framework is a fantastic example of drawing a line in the sand on what the framework does for you, and what tools it affords you to do what you need yourself.
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Nothing says you're busy like saying "I'm busy", but it's such a default, generic answer and no matter how hard we try, it's still the best we can come up with!
June 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Flavours of busy, restrained features, and variable static views. Have a listen:
Flavours of busy, restrained features, and variable static views
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the nuance of being “busy”,...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Liquid glass, video thumbnails, and children growing up. Have a listen:
Liquid glass, video thumbnails, and children growing up
In this episode, Jake and Michael reflect on parenting, discuss Apple's...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Stealth grills, metric takeover, and selecting conference talks. Have a listen:
Stealth grills, metric takeover, and selecting conference talks
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Jake's new stealth grill, his...
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May 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Constant interfaces, nested input, and array access. Have a listen:
Constant interfaces, nested input, and array access
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss using interfaces as a...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: Laracon AU, queued batches, and leveraging AI. Have a listen:
Laracon AU, queued batches, and leveraging AI
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the ramp up of Laracon AU...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of North Meets South Web Podcast: New setups, Saloon SDKs, and configuring Horizon. Have a listen:
New setups, Saloon SDKs, and configuring Horizon
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new recording gear,...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM