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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

TechBikers 2016

When I'm not making stupid jokes on Twitter, or in a bar, or making stupid jokes on Twitter from a bar, I'm usually riding bikes. I do this because exploring is a hobby, and the adrenaline of going life-threateningly fast is addictive. Sometimes, I ride much

Why Care About PHP Middleware?

Recently there has been a lot of buzz about HTTP middleware in PHP. Since PSR-7 was accepted, everyone and their friend Sherly has been knocking out middleware implementations, some of them stunning, some of them half-arsed, and some of them rolled into existing frameworks. HTTP Middleware is a wonderful thing,

PUT vs PATCH vs JSON-PATCH

A question that is asked with increasing regularity in the APIs You Won't Hate Slack Group is one which has been asked for years, but does not always have a good answer. The question is: What is the different between PUT and PATCH, and when do I use

Loudly Ignoring How CoCs Work

Paul Jones recently wrote an article called An Object Lesson in Conduct Enforcement. The title starts off factually inaccurate, and it goes downhill from there. Sadly Paul didn't ask either party if they wanted their names launched into the spotlight. Nobody has. I write this not to continue

Why Is Everyone Outraged?

There have been about twenty articles I want to write about equality in tech, and they all end up crossing over into one big mess. I'm going to start unpicking these articles into a series, and I want to start by asking this question. Is everyone really offended?

Lessons Learned Running a Dropshipped T-Shirt Company

Made in Production has been something that my BFF Zack and I have been working on for a while. We had the idea to start selling super-niche programming t-shirts in 2013, we finally got the store up and running on some janky Python in 2014, then shut it down after

HTTP/REST API File Uploads

File uploads are one thing that always feel rather complicated, and working out how to handle this in an API doesn't make life easier. For many programmers, this has been abstracted away behind the HTTP standard, HTML and convenient features in languages like PHP, that populate a $_FILES