“Thinking in Livewire” at PHPxADL
Learning Livewire needed a shift in how I pictured an application, and this talk shares the mental model that helped me connect its parts and simplify my development workflow.
4 Sep 2026
2 min read
“Livewire, Eloquent and extending Statamic 6” at PHPxMEL
Following the initial website build, this meetup talk adds visitor interactions and database-backed content, showing how Livewire, Eloquent and Runway can work alongside Statamic.
13 Sep 2025
2 min read
“Design to Statamic 6 in 40(ish) minutes” at PHPxMEL
Revisiting the Leaf website demo with Statamic 6 gave me a chance to build from a Figma design, exploring the alpha’s new features while setting up an editable homepage.
12 Sep 2025
2 min read
“Design to Statamic 5 in 40 minutes” at PHPxADL
Starting with a Figma design, my PHP Adelaide talk builds a Statamic 5 homepage from scratch, introducing the structure, configuration and content editing behind a working website.
8 Aug 2025
2 min read
“The Invisible Developer” at Laracon AU 2024
Taking the Laracon AU stage to talk about anxiety, depression and isolation meant sharing a deeply personal story, and confronting the gap between how I appear and how I feel.
21 Nov 2024
6 min read
“Building maintainable websites with Statamic”
Sharing lessons from our Statamic projects at the Laravel Worldwide Meetup gave me a chance to explore the structures, reusable code and habits that make websites easier to maintain.
24 Sep 2024
2 min read
“Blueprints, Fields and Fieldsets in Statamic”
A cinema website gave me a practical way to introduce Statamic’s content structure, building movie details with Blueprints, Fields and Fieldsets at PHP Adelaide.
2 Aug 2024
1 min read
“Statamic for Laravel Devs” at Laracon AU 2023
My Laracon AU 2023 talk paired a live Statamic demo with lessons from our development workflow, showing how content management can fit inside an existing Laravel app.
14 Dec 2023
3 min read
How Tiny helps me deliver the best content authoring experience
Years of customising TinyMCE have given me plenty of favourite features, and my Joomla Day talk covered how those choices help clients write, format and manage their own content.
13 Sep 2019
15 min read
