ollieread
@ollieread.com
Software architect, and developer educator. Primarily working with #php and #laravel. Currently working on @sprout.ollieread.com. Big fan of #multitenancy
My god Pterodactyl and its supporting functionality is so bad. There's a new CVE every other week it feels like.
STACKFLAG@stackflag.bsky.social · last mo.CVE-2026-52855 - wings Wings, a server management tool, accidentally shares sensitive information with users who can control certain settings. This could allow unauthorized users to access… Too many irrelevant or confusing CVEs? Use stackflag.com #wings #pterodactyl #Golang #CVE #infosec
I'm pretty confident that I've found a way to make Sprout support the following data-isolation approaches: ✅ Separate instance ✅ Shared instance ✅ Separate schemas ✅ Partitioning ✅ Discriminator ✅ Row-level-security In ANY combination, with different approaches per tenant! #multitenancy #laravel
This may quite honestly be the longest and most in-depth article I've ever written. Prepare yourselves for a brain dump of all data-isolation strategies for multitenanted web applications!
When reading a detailed piece of content for a complex topic, something that's quite long, how do you prefer to consume it? One big long page, or broken up into chunks? I'm not convinced the article format is working, especially with the #multitenancy stuff I'm writing.
It's been a while, but I've posted a new article on my somewhat updated site! This one is all about getting Laravels `composer run dev` command to work with Laravel sail. #laravel #laravelsail #docker ollieread.com/articles/com...
Composer Run Dev and Laravel Sail - ollieread.com
If, like me, you're a user of Laravel Sail for some of your Laravel projects, you'll have probably noticed that the default 'composer run dev' command that ships with Laravel, just won't work for you...
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I'm spending some time fully documenting the changes in Laravel version 13, 13.1 and 13.1.1 as a proof of concept. Ultimately, I'd like to provide detailed information about what is actually happened for each version. #laravel #opensource
I'm currently working on Sprout 2.0, which will have multi-database and domain support, as well as a whole host of additional supporting features! #laravel #multitenancy
Ever wanted to know how to make your custom classes work with implicit route bindings in #laravel? Without them being models? Or explicitly bound? Or are you just curious about how it all works? Check out my latest article! ollieread.com/articles/lar...
Laravel's Route "Model" Binding | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
One of Laravel's arguably most used features has to be route model binding, where a model instance with its data will be resolved based on a route parameter. But did you know that this functionality i...
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My newest article is live! This is the most complex so far, and it's primarily informational. In it, I have a look at the different ways you can manually resolve services/dependencies in Laravel, and what the actual differences are. ollieread.com/articles/man...
Manual Service Resolution in Laravel | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
There are many different ways to manually resolve services in Laravel, with a handful being covered in the docs, though there is a difference in each one. In this article we're going to look at the d...
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This week's article is all about #laravel middleware priority, having a look at the functionality not mentioned in the docs! There's more available to you than you know! ollieread.com/articles/lar...
Laravel Middleware Priority | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
In this article we're going to look at middleware priority, which is something that is briefly mentioned in the documentation, but isn't fully documented.
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This week's article is all about #laravel middleware priority, having a look at the functionality not mentioned in the docs! There's more available to you than you know! ollieread.com/articles/lar...
Laravel Middleware Priority | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
In this article we're going to look at middleware priority, which is something that is briefly mentioned in the documentation, but isn't fully documented.
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So, I'm writing a JWT auth package for Laravel, and I've decided to first build a JWT generator package for Laravel. This is 1-2 hours work, and it's a POC which should work for any JWT generation in Laravel. github.com/ollieread/la... #laravel
New #laravel article released today! This one is all about an undocumented and hidden feature of Laravel, one that lets you easily register decorators for services! ollieread.com/articles/dec...
Decorating Services in Laravel | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
In this article we're going to look at one of Laravel's hidden and undocumented features, which allows you to decorate services that are resolved through the service container.
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New #laravel article released today! This one is all about an undocumented and hidden feature of Laravel, one that lets you easily register decorators for services! ollieread.com/articles/dec...
Decorating Services in Laravel | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
In this article we're going to look at one of Laravel's hidden and undocumented features, which allows you to decorate services that are resolved through the service container.
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I've just published my new article on "Request-derived context", an architectural pattern that I put together to define the process we use in modern web applications to retrieve request-based context. ollieread.com/articles/int...
Introducing the Request-derived Context Pattern | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
This article introduces the Request-derived Context pattern, a formalisation of a common but often unnamed process in web applications: extracting and resolving contextual information from incoming HT...
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I've just published my new article on "Request-derived context", an architectural pattern that I put together to define the process we use in modern web applications to retrieve request-based context. ollieread.com/articles/int...
Introducing the Request-derived Context Pattern | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
This article introduces the Request-derived Context pattern, a formalisation of a common but often unnamed process in web applications: extracting and resolving contextual information from incoming HT...
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After MUCH delay, I've finally completed the documentation for the service overrides that ship with Sprout. #multitenancy #laravel sprout.ollieread.com/docs/1.x/ser...
Service Overrides: Core Concepts - Sprout - Multitenancy for Laravel
Feature rich, flexible, and easy to use multitenancy package that integrates seamlessly with your Laravel application
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I have never identified with someone as much as with @tsoding.bsky.social when he talks about experimenting in order to understand something better: Timestamp: youtu.be/SbUvlZeKSwk?...
I tried a $100 IDE for BASIC in 2025
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I'm so much more interested in learning how things work as opposed to what they're useful for. It's, uh, not my most marketable trait lol
There's now a follow-up article that includes a solution for possible memory issues, as well as a Laravel Octane-specific option! #laravel #laravel-octane #identity-map ollieread.com/articles/man...
Managing the Memory Usage of the Laravel Eloquent Identity Map | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
In my previous article, I introduced a minimal identity map for Laravel Eloquent. In this follow-up, I'll show you how to better manage the memory usage of the identity map, and prevent memory leaking...
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ollieread@ollieread.com · last yr.Want to add an identity map for your Eloquent models in your #laravel application? There's an article for that! ollieread.com/articles/a-m...
This man has never written Go. We must protect him. We have it in our power to keep at least one pure programmer!
danielroe@danielroe.dev · last yr.I've never written rust. 🦀 ... nor go (which I'd very much like to try), nor a native phone app. and I'm sure that only scratches the surface of things I don't know! I try to be okay with that. plus, it means there's always more fun stuff to learn or explore. roe.dev/ama #ama
One day, I'll figure out a way to combine my expertise in building web applications, with my fondness for Minecraft and/or modding it.
If it looks like malware and smells like malware, it’s probably malware This makes me want to uninstall all of the meta apps
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last yr.Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
