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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.

Misconceptions about tree planting

Misconceptions about tree planting

As somebody relatively new to woodland creation and restoration, I have been learning quickly thanks to being surrounded by experts in various fields. Before having a chance to listen and learn from those long involved in tree-planting and reforesting, I thought I knew more than I do now. I thought

2022 in Review: Restoring Ancient Woodlands, Vanlife, Bad Bikes, and Green Tech

2022 in Review: Restoring Ancient Woodlands, Vanlife, Bad Bikes, and Green Tech

It’s been another weird and wonderful year, and I wanted to reflect on that in a post. In the last few months of 2021 I quit my full time contract with Stoplight, which had been the end of a fantastic run of making the world of API design a

Only You Can Bring Modern OpenAPI Bundling to JavaScript

If you're familiar with OpenAPI you're probably familiar with "Bundling", also known by some as "Resolving" or "Dereferencing", "External Inlining"... there's a lot of names for this, but basically we are talking about pulling all the

Global Namespace Collision Detection in PHP

Namespaces have existed in PHP since version 5.3 to avoid two classes with the same name from different parts of the codebase conflicting with each other. Before namespaces you'd either hope it wasn't an issue, or name everything something horrendous like Acme_ModuleName_DirectoryName_ClassName.

Checking Extensions on Laravel Sail and Vapor

One of the Protect Earth API volunteers was looking into using Laravel Excel to add "Download CSV" functionality to Protect Earth's amazing new Laravel Nova-powered backend to finally replace Airtable, and they said "It needs the GD extension, which I don't think Sail

OpenAPI v3.1 Resources for Tooling Developers

OpenAPI v3.1.0 has a bunch of great changes, solving problems like the subtle differences between JSON Schema objects and OpenAPI Schema objects, and adds support for Webhooks. Upgrading tooling can be tricky, but this should be a lot easier than the jump from v2 to v3.0. To

Going bike nomad (and nearly dying repeatedly) fixed my burnout!

Going bike nomad (and nearly dying repeatedly) fixed my burnout!

In the middle of 2018 in NYC I was going through some rough burnout. I’d been working my ass off at a corporation I’d panicked into after two startups prior had gone bankrupt. I was refactoring a huge API ecosystem which was a house of cards, built on