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Using Message Signatures to Ensure Secure Incoming Webhooks

Nexmo Blog, June 2019

Blog post on the work blog showing how having a message signature helps to secure your incoming webhooks. After all, you’re running an open endpoint on the internet! It’s good to be sure that the data you receive is coming from where you think it is coming from … https://www.nexmo.com/blog/2019/06/28/using-message-signatures-to-ensure-secure-incoming-webhooks-dr

Handling Webhooks with Laravel

Laravel Live, June 2019

How lovely to be able to meet up with the Laravel community again – and in London, which is easy travelling. They were a great audience for this webhooks talk and asked great questions too, what a win!

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Design-First is better than API-First

PHP[TEK], May 2019

My ideas around API design are always growing and changing, but I’ve definitely gone from API-first, to Docs-first, to now Spec-first when I work with APIs. I took the opportunity to cover some of the design choices for starting a new API project from scratch, and some of my favourite approaches to common problems.

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API Tools You May Enjoy

PHP[TEK], May 2019

OK so it had a more strongly-worded title but that was not my idea :) I loved having a quick run through my favourite tools for the PHP[TEK] audience!

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A Meritocracy of Pull Requests

PHP Yorkshire, April, 2019

As a Yorkshire native, it makes me very happy to be invited to PHP Yorkshire and to speak about pull requests!

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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.