Writing & projects
Notes on Laravel, side projects, and the occasional rabbit hole.
Dockerizing a Laravel Octane application
It is now possible to self-host Vigilant!
Vigilant
Open source and self hostable all-in-one monitoring tool for websites.
Reusable Charts with Laravel Livewire
For my project GPMetrics I need charts to display data. In this blog article I will explain how I implemented these using ChartJS and Laravel livewire in a way that they are reusable.
Your Laravel Horizon's unique jobs may never run
With Laravel Horizon and unique jobs you should be aware of the trim setting in your configuration. If you do not configure this correctly or do not take it into account it could cause your unique jobs to never run!
F14 Tomcat Pinball Machine
Doing some upgrades on a 1987 pinball machine
Pixel Art Frame
Playing GIF's of arcade and pinball games on dot matrix displays using an ESP32
Concert Trackr
I often go to concerts and I wanted a way to track which concerts I am going to and which I've been to.I created a website called Concert Trackr to do this for me
Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 4 - Control panel
Only one thing left, the control panel!
Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 3 - Power, PC, monitor and sound
In this part of the arcade cabinet built we are going to connect the power, put the PC in the cabinet, add the monitor and sound. When this is done the cabinet will be playable! So beware, I don't know when the next part is coming, I might be too busy playing ;)
Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 2 - The cabinet
Now that I got my design it is time to built the cabinet itself. I am not a good woodworker, I just document my journey here so please keep that in mind. If you're serious about building an arcade cabinet I'd suggest you read and watch many tutorial like this, everyone does it a little bit different.
Building an Arcade Cabinet Part 1 - Planning
When I was 16 I built my first arcade cabinet, it wasn't a nice cabinet and way too big for my room at the time. I've always said: If I buy a house, I'll build an arcade cabinet for in my living room.That time has now come, I've got a house, now just the arcade cabinet.