Tom Erbe
tomerbe.bsky.social
Tom Erbe
@tomerbe.bsky.social
Full time senior developer for an EdTech SaaS using Laravel. Freelance Laravel and Statamic developer under my Grizzly Pumpkin brand - https://grizzlypumpkin.com
After a bit of a hiatus from my BulmaJS project, I've set out a plan for a V1 release now that the Bulma CSS library has a V1 (for quite some time now!).

I'll be prioritising maintenance, bug fixes, and compatibility issues, but may be a sprinkle of new features too.

github.com/VizuaaLOG/Bu...
Road to V1 🥳 · Issue #158 · VizuaaLOG/BulmaJS
Hey everyone 👋, I've been wanting to complete some more work on this project, especially as it appears to still be getting used. Unfortunately, my time is not as free as it once was, and I personal...
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August 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Working on a couple of projects this weekend, and wanted to incorporate some motion. @gsap-greensock.bsky.social allowed for a very nice animation with little code, going to be using this one for my site redesign, I only touched the surface! Also tried AOS for some simpler entry motion 👌 #webdesign
June 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
📖 Finally picked up Tobias Petry's Indexing Beyond the Basics book. #database indexes have always been the thing I felt I knew enough to get by, but always felt it was a weakness I needed to learn more about. Really good so far, the diagrams are also very useful!

👉 goodindexes.com
A complete book dedicated to database indexes
Indexes can be easy. I promise.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Did you know you can use custom Eloquent pivot models to level-up your belongs to many relationships? This works well for more complex table structures where your pivot tables are a full record in their own right 👇

tomerbe.co.uk/articles/piv...

#laravel #laraveleloquent #php #pivot #database
Pivoting to Eloquent Pivot Models
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March 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've been working on a new address lookup feature for a client project the last few days, more specifically.

The front end is Blade with Vue for more complex experiences, so I have a Vue component implementing the UI for those screens.

The admin uses a little Livewire/Alpine.

#laravel #livewire
January 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A few weeks ago, I experienced some weird behaviour with a WordPress database's size. This isn't something I've experienced before (I don't typically use WordPress either) so thought I'd complete a write-up for it 👇

tomerbe.co.uk/articles/dia...

#wordpress #investigation #database
Diagnosing a WordPress database skyrocketing to 17+GB in hours
Follow me as I diagnose a client's WordPress website with a database that is around 400MB, regularly increasing on disk to over 17GB within hours.
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December 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM