Paul Conroy

Agentic commerce is one of those phrases that is currently doing a lot of work.

Welcome to the USA In May 2026 I made my first trip to PHP[tek], and my first trip to Chicago.

In May 2026 I had the pleasure of speaking at phpday in Verona.

Stripe Session 2026 In May 2026 I made the trip back to San Francisco for Stripe Sessions.

If we're running a business on Stripe, chances are we've got a few different payment flows in play.

I was recently getting ready for a demo.

That's a wrap on Dutch PHP Conference for 2026!

In February 2026, I had the privilege of speaking at ConFoo in Montréal - my first time at the conference, and my first time in Canada.

Migrating billing systems sits right at the intersection of "absolutely critical" and "terrifyingly risky".

The Tailwind CDN is a fantastic tool for rapid prototyping.

In November 2025, I spoke at Build Stuff in Vilnius about creative defences against scrapers, phishers, and digital opportunists.

Expanding your online business internationally is easier now than it has ever been.

When watching videos on YouTube, I often toggle the playback speed to run slightly faster than normal.

TL;DR Google quietly removed the &num=100 parameter that SEO tools used to load 100 results per page.

As part of my day job, I spend a fair bit of time on LinkedIn, and have the app installed on my phone.

It's a rite of passage which will happen to most devs at one point or another.

Lately we've been receiving a number of warnings from Google about sites we operate: Google has been notified that your site allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others, and violates applicable copyright laws in your region.

Recently I was working on a side project, EverythingIsShowbiz.com, a mostly-vibe-coded transcript search engine for the "What Did You Do Yesterday?"

Anyone who has spent a non-trivial amount of time on the internet will recognise the following scenario.

In early June, I had the please of giving a talk at the International PHP Conference in Berlin.

When working on presentations for various conferences, I often use Google Slides.

In May this year I had the pleasure of speaking at the CyberWiseCon / DevDays Europe event in Vilnius, where I delivered a new talk for the first time, Digital Cat & Mouse: Strategies to Outsmart Scrapers, Phishers & Thieves.

Back in the mid-2000s, I was working at a very popular property website in Ireland.

Stripe Sessions, Moscone Center In May 2025, I travelled to Stripe's product conference, Sessions, in San Francisco.

Efficient video encoding has meant that sharing video files in formats like mp4 or webm has become increasingly-popular.

Chrome is an ever-green browser, meaning that the application is constantly being updated.

I've always believed the best way to really understand a technology is to push it in stupid, impractical directions and see what breaks.

Recently I returned to an old Node app that runs on AWS Lambdas.

In March 2025 I was lucky enough to get the change to present at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam.

Tools like Ollama make running large language models (LLMs) locally easier than ever, but some configurations can pose unexpected challenges, especially on Linux.

Filament is a great time-saver when building out admin functionality in a Laravel app.

When developing with Laravel, Pest is the modern choice for testing.

Cloudflare Workers provide a powerful way to run serverless JavaScript code on Cloudflare's edge network, placing your logic closer to your users without requiring dedicated servers or additional infrastructure.

In this article, we'll cover how to create a simple and free RESTful JSON API, using Google Sheets as a data source.

I had a fantastic time at the International PHP Conference (IPC) in Munich last week.

Recent updates to Ubuntu 24.04 led me to regular lose my wifi connection.

In June 2024, I had the pleasure of speaking at the PHPers Summit, in Poznan, Poland.

Since the GDPR came into being, we've all become familiar with cookie banners on our favourite websites.

Domain name renewal can be a pain in the backside.

> composer test Metadata found in doc-comment for method MyTest::it_loads_user_ok().

PHP UK is a vibrant, welcoming, developer conference which I have enjoyed attending many times in the past.

Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is an important part of ensuring account security.

When developing APIs, idempotency is an important concept to be aware of.

Recently I was building out a multi-tenant API using Laravel, and ran into a problem with my tests.

I had a great time recently speaking with Liz Moy on Decrypt, the developer podcast from the folks at Evervault.

When it comes to enhancing engagement on articles, having video content available can be highly effective.

Value objects are a very effective tool to improve the quality of your application, as well as the readability of your code.

Unlocking additional payment flows is a game-changer for businesses of all sizes.

When publishing content online, attracting readers to your content is critical.

As developers, we often find ourselves working with collections of data in our projects.