alistaircol / alistaircol

Hello 👋

I am a full stack software engineer

I specialise in server-side development. I like cloud native tech and to automate everything possible.

• Full stack software engineer, strong in PHP with Laravel. TDD all the way.
• I'm also very interested in DevOps and automation - self-host a bunch of services.
  • Comfortable with docker, terraform and ansible.
• I am always keen to learn, sometimes I write about my journey in learning new things. You can see recent posts below or everything at my technical blog.

Overview

I have exposure and experience with the following concepts, methodologies, technologies, and frameworks:

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Recently

Use git feature to 'hide' local changes of a Dockerfile which installs xdebug

Use git update-index --assume-unchanged to remove local changes of a Dockerfile from the staging area in a repository, and use (an ignored) docker-compose.override.yml to configure xdebug.

^{docker xdebug git} 

Basic Cognito user pool with login/logout integration in Laravel, with users/system clients

A relatively basic Laravel integration with an Amazon Cognito user pool with two clients. The first client for web users will be used to initiate (from Laravel) login/logout on Cognito’s hosted UI with email/password. The second client will be for system users, which will generate tokens with email/password through API instead of hosted UI. Finally, a simple console command to decode/verify web and system users’ JTWs from the user pool’s JWKS.

^{laravel cognito terraform} 

Adding asynchronous search to a hugo blog

Learn how to add asynchronous search to a hugo blog with alpine.js and fuse.

^{hugo alpine fuse} 

Create a GitHub workflow to run PHP linters, tests, and generate coverage report

Create and configure a GitHub workflow to run PHP QA tools (e.g. phplint, phpcs), and then run unit and feature tests (e.g. php artisan test, phpunit), and finally generate a code coverage report or some other artifact.

^{laravel github phpunit} 

Send a templated WhatsApp message through Twilio in Laravel

Send a message template containing emoji from Twilio in Laravel.

^{laravel whatsapp twilio} 

Consume raw SQS messages from another application with Laravel's queue

Easily consume arbitrary raw AWS SQS messages produced by another application in your Laravel application’s queue with a Job and queue configuration.

^{laravel aws sqs} 

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