Dan Newns. Developer. Writer. Speaker.
11+ years building production Laravel at Jump24 - one of the UK's most respected Laravel agencies. I write weekly about PHP, tooling, and the community that shaped my career.
Latest articles.
Laravel Expressive: Typed Objects for Eloquent
I've been a developer now for a long time and over the years I've had the pleasure of being able to use different frameworks to build different applications. From CodeIgniter, Zend through to CakePHP and of course Laravel.
Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications.
Here's a scenario we encounter regularly at Jump24: a client has a legacy application - perhaps built in CakePHP, CodeIgniter, or even a custom framework - and they want to add automated browser testing. The catch? They don't want to pollute the existing codebase with test dependencies, and frankly, the application wasn't built with testing in mind.
Fatherhood, First Talks, and Finally Trusting Myself: 2025 in Review
If you'd asked me at the start of 2025 what the year would look like, I don't think I could have predicted just how much would change. Some years are about big career moves or business milestones. This year was about something far more important.
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