I'm Josh Embling, a senior software engineer based in Wales, and a freelance tech consultant for small and large enterprises across the UK.
I mainly work with Laravel and modern PHP, but I'm also useful with React Native, React and TypeScript.
Should you want to work with me, feel free to get in touch.
19th December 2025
Laravel PHP BladeIf you are using Blade with Prettier, 99% of the time it does a great job of formatting your files. Occasionally though, you may run into some issues...
18th December 2025
LaravelReally simple .gitignore that works for most starter Laravel projects.
Take it away:
/.phpunit.cache
/node_modules
/public/build
/public...
17th December 2025
Laravel PHPHow awkward is it when you dd() something in Laravel and then you start clicking through every arrow/chevron to expand the contents of each object....