Web Development

William Beeler

Light Cycles v0.0.1-pre-alpha released!

I previously started a new website, Labrahedron, however, I’ve moved that over to my portfolio in recent days. The purpose of my portfolio is to showcase my technical projects and various releases for current projects that I’m working on. I’m excited to let you know about the Light Cycles game that I’m working on, using …

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Scripture Parsing – A unique coding problem, pt. 1

Apparently, about 85% of the world is religious, so this may not be such a unique problem after all, but for a lot of folks this may appear to be a bit of a unique problem for PHP development, or coding in general. That problem is parsing a Scripture reference. Now, there’s other uses for …

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Using Mailhog on a local Mac development environment with Laravel Valet

Creating an efficient local development environment is a must for any developer. One essential tool for testing email functionalities without spamming real mailboxes is Mailhog. Today, we’ll explore how to integrate Mailhog into a Laravel Valet setup on a Mac, ensuring that you can catch, view, and debug email messages generated by your applications locally. …

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Why I use Laravel Jigsaw for flat file work

In the past I’ve used the static site generator system known as Laravel Jigsaw. I typically deployed my site to Github and use Github Pages as the hosting provider. There’s a lot of reasons that I find Laravel Jigsaw useful (besides the fact that I’ve used it at work for years). Markdown Support It allows content creators to write in …

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Christmas Traditions around the World – Three.js Project

Several years back I was working for a company in North Carolina, and one of our clients (a Christmas Tree company) needed an interactive project for attracting visitors to their website. So they contracted with us to make a fun interactive Christmas world map. I was given a PSD file and left to my own …

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