Who Am I?

Hey! I'm Thomas Erbe

I'm a software developer, serial tinkerer, and aspiring writer.

I'm a full-time Laravel developer, previously working in marketing.

I enjoy developing tools, software, and websites. Along with trying new technologies. I regularly have ideas for new projects, some of which I'm trying to build.

Featured

Projects

Project

Content Writing

Trying to get into a habbit of writing about things I've learnt, experiences I've encountered and other related things.

Project

Content Tracking App

Hobby project to track watch lists, "to play" lists, and any other tracking. Planned to be self-hostable and open source.

Project

BulmaJS

Library for Bulma to add the additional JavaScript scripting for components that need it. Writting in vanilla JavaScript.

Latest

Articles

Investigation

Diagnosing a WordPress database skyrocketing to 17+GB in hours

Follow me as I diagnose a client's WordPress website with a database that keeps skyrocketing its size on disk to over 17GB (about 17x) within hours.

December 19th, 2024

DEVLOG

Content Tracking App: Decisions, decisions, decisions...

In this first post about a contact tracking app I'm working on, I talk about the difficulty of making decisions on tech stacks and designs!

June 16th, 2024

Servers

Getting DDoSed by a bot...

Did you think a site would get DDoSed by a bot? Nor did I until I spent hours investigating intermittent outages and corruption on a client site.

June 9th, 2024

Servers

Updating My Server To Ubuntu 22.04, Caddy 2, and PHP 8.3

I encountered a couple of issues during my server house-keeping and wanted to document the process for others and myself

May 19th, 2024