Matthew Poulter
@matthewpoulter.co.za
⚙️ Engineering Manager at VCSW
🛠️ Laravel (VILT/RILT, Filament)
🌍 South African living in the Netherlands
🎺 Trombonist (why is there no trombone emoji?)
🏃 parkrun enthusiast
https://pinkary.com/@mdpoulter
🛠️ Laravel (VILT/RILT, Filament)
🌍 South African living in the Netherlands
🎺 Trombonist (why is there no trombone emoji?)
🏃 parkrun enthusiast
https://pinkary.com/@mdpoulter
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Matthew Poulter
@matthewpoulter.co.za
· Oct 27
Okay, I think it’s finally time for one fewer empty profile! Let's see where this goes...
Thinking about building a monitoring tool for Laravel's chained jobs. Similar to how Horizon lets you monitor batches (progress, failures, etc.)
April 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Thinking about building a monitoring tool for Laravel's chained jobs. Similar to how Horizon lets you monitor batches (progress, failures, etc.)
Wet jeans and a 2 hour trip home are not a good combination 😫
December 7, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Wet jeans and a 2 hour trip home are not a good combination 😫
Really enjoyed the Triceratops exhibition on display @naturalis.bsky.social! Well worth a visit if you find yourself nearby...
December 3, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Really enjoyed the Triceratops exhibition on display @naturalis.bsky.social! Well worth a visit if you find yourself nearby...
The problem with having lots of things to do is that it's very easy to keep yourself busy doing unimportant things.
December 2, 2024 at 9:40 PM
The problem with having lots of things to do is that it's very easy to keep yourself busy doing unimportant things.
Can confirm 👇
#chatgpt works very well for generating alt texts for your images. In this case it was a sunrise instead of a sunset but that's still super helpful for me. Besides the time it saves me, it can be quite a bit of work thinking about how to describe the details on the image.
December 2, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Can confirm 👇
It's been a weekend of delayed trains and good food 😄
December 1, 2024 at 6:05 PM
It's been a weekend of delayed trains and good food 😄
I enjoyed completing the first #AdventOfCode challenge on the train today. A new experience coding on a phone, but it made the travel time fly by! adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
I enjoyed completing the first #AdventOfCode challenge on the train today. A new experience coding on a phone, but it made the travel time fly by! adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
Always worth waking up a little earlier on a crisp, wintery morning like today 🧣
November 30, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Always worth waking up a little earlier on a crisp, wintery morning like today 🧣
Started using Figma for some flowcharts and so far it's been very helpful as we brainstorm and plan out the steps for a new service with the team 👍
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Started using Figma for some flowcharts and so far it's been very helpful as we brainstorm and plan out the steps for a new service with the team 👍
Never more thankful for our tech stack than after discussing the challenges of hiring COBOL developers to maintain a legacy system at another company 😅
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Never more thankful for our tech stack than after discussing the challenges of hiring COBOL developers to maintain a legacy system at another company 😅
Going down a rabbit hole of frying pan buying advice 🍳
November 18, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Going down a rabbit hole of frying pan buying advice 🍳
Never would have guessed that Strava would become my favourite social media platform!
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Never would have guessed that Strava would become my favourite social media platform!
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
- sales assistant
- research assistant
- maths and science tutor
- marketing manager
- videographer
- robotics coach
- sales assistant
- research assistant
- maths and science tutor
- marketing manager
- videographer
- robotics coach
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
- door-to-door vacuum sales
- touring musician (technically got paid for this)
- line cook
- prepress at a printing press
- dishwasher
- call center tech support
- door-to-door vacuum sales
- touring musician (technically got paid for this)
- line cook
- prepress at a printing press
- dishwasher
- call center tech support
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
- SAT coach
- retail associate
- front desk at gym
- phlebotomist
- clinical lab tech in surgical path
- help desk technician
- non profit program director
- SAT coach
- retail associate
- front desk at gym
- phlebotomist
- clinical lab tech in surgical path
- help desk technician
- non profit program director
November 12, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
- sales assistant
- research assistant
- maths and science tutor
- marketing manager
- videographer
- robotics coach
- sales assistant
- research assistant
- maths and science tutor
- marketing manager
- videographer
- robotics coach
Always appreciate a kind email from a government agency asking you to please stop accidentally DDOSing their server 😅
November 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Always appreciate a kind email from a government agency asking you to please stop accidentally DDOSing their server 😅
As if email DNS management isn't confusing enough, I just learned that there's a hard limit on SPF DNS lookups 🤯
November 7, 2024 at 10:48 PM
As if email DNS management isn't confusing enough, I just learned that there's a hard limit on SPF DNS lookups 🤯
There are a lot of things to criticise Microsoft Teams for, but translated live captions really make multi-language meetings a lot easier!
October 31, 2024 at 10:00 AM
There are a lot of things to criticise Microsoft Teams for, but translated live captions really make multi-language meetings a lot easier!
Annual "gosh, it's dark already" time of year ⌚
October 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Annual "gosh, it's dark already" time of year ⌚
TIL you can fake a subset of jobs in your Laravel tests. Very handy!
Docs: laravel.com/docs/11.x/qu...
Docs: laravel.com/docs/11.x/qu...
![test('orders can be shipped', function () {
Queue::fake([
ShipOrder::class,
]);
// Perform order shipping...
// Assert a job was pushed twice...
Queue::assertPushed(ShipOrder::class, 2);
});](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spcpv6tscqv3cwymqiabkeav/bafkreiclvza257j2tybhnhs7nqrzqt2bva7ntks3j24nlzhaoqoj4fssaq@jpeg)
October 28, 2024 at 3:51 PM
TIL you can fake a subset of jobs in your Laravel tests. Very handy!
Docs: laravel.com/docs/11.x/qu...
Docs: laravel.com/docs/11.x/qu...
Okay, I think it’s finally time for one fewer empty profile! Let's see where this goes...
October 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Okay, I think it’s finally time for one fewer empty profile! Let's see where this goes...