As a Yorkshire native, it makes me very happy to be invited to PHP Yorkshire and to speak about pull requests!
View A Meritocracy of Pull Requests on Notist.
Text Markup to PDF with rst2pdf
I’m an accidental maintainer of a python project: it’s rst2pdf which is a brilliant tool that I use for all my slide decks and other documents.
Intro to OpenAPI Spec
Describing your API opens the door to wonder and magic – and documentation of course. This talk is from the Tool the Docs room at FOSDEM.
Christmas Poetry Reading with Text-to-Speech
I had a fun time trying out the SSML features and teaching the Nexmo Text-to-speech feature to answer an incoming call and read me a poem :) https://www.nexmo.com/blog/2018/12/05/christmas-poetry-reading-using-text-to-speech-dr/ (includes playable recording)
Voices of the Elephpant: SunshinePHP 2019
A lovely chance to chat with the one and only Cal Evans on the Voices of the Elephpant podcast about the upcoming SunshinePHP conference.
Sending SMS from PHP with Failover
Nexmo has some new messaging APIs and I created a tutorial to show you how to use them from PHP using Guzzle (we don’t have library support for it yet, it’s so new!):