Portfolio

I've created a lookup sheet to check the values of pixels and rem with Tailwind width and font sizes: https://talltales.xyz/tw-sizes I hope it will prove useful.

Over the weekend I produced a really simple website made of just links to help people settle in when moving to Portugal. Although I could have made it super simple and just used HTML, I decided to ...

Just completed the 'Modals with the TALL Stack' course on Laracasts. This was a comprehensive course on creating modals using Alpine and/or Livewire.

Just finished the Alpine.js Essentials course on Laracasts. It was a great introduction to Alpine and finishes with a comprehensive todo build. https://laracasts.com/series/alpine-essentials

I've added a quick Laravel tip on TALLTales.xyz: How to Use a Named Route in a Blade View. Whenever I want to do this I can never remember the syntax and I've never been able to find it in the docs...

Completed BeyondCode's Knights of the Flexbox Table, a CSS/Tailwind flex box adventure! This is a great way to learn or brush up on your Flexbox skills.

The story so far .. after moving from being a SAS data analyst into web development with VB.NET in the early 2000s, I moved over to PHP around 2010. Around 2019, when a long term contract had ended...

Published a new tutorial on TALL Tales called 'Adding a Custom Error Page in Laravel'. This tutorial clearly lays out the steps you need to either publish the existing Laravel error pages and edit ...

Launched my new profile website at sarahsibert.net. It's a simple one page website with basic information and links on but it's built in Laravel so that I can expand at a later date if I choose to.

Started the Build a Voting App on Laracasts. The course uses the TALL Stack to create a voting app. The finished app should have the ability for users to create ideas, vote and comment on them, sor...

Joined Polywork!

Relaunched an updated website for AEZA, an animal charity in the Algarve, Portugal. The site is built on WordPress using the Divi theme. The website uses the WPML plugin for translations and has 4 ...

I wrote a new blog post for my site TALL Tales entitled "How to Show Existing Value in Dropdown". This tutorial shows you how to have a select dropdown on a form automatically showing the existing ...

Wrote the post - "How to Create a Contact Form and Send from Mailgun on Forge" - for my blog TALLTales. This is a tutorial for adding a Contact Form to your Laravel 8 application.

Launched TALLTales.xyz, a blog about learning the TALL Stack: Tailwind, Alpine, Livewire and Laravel.

'Attended' (watched) the first ever Alpine Day.

Created the ASD Polywork badge!

Created my first OSS package for Astrotomic. It's call Git-Author and creates the GitHub author email by username.

I joined the Astrotomic Open Source Organisation as a co-maintainer. https://astrotomic.info

Set up as a self employed web developer in Portugal.