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.

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Projects

Project

Grizzly Pumpkin

My freelance brand where I build high-quality Laravel based applications, websites, extend functionality of existing products, and provide a range of maintenance and hosting packages.

Project

Content Writing

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

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Articles

Laravel

Pivoting to Eloquent Pivot Models

Custom pivot models can be used to streamline the management of many-to-many relationships, where the pivot table containing additional related columns. They also unlock most of the featured available on standard models, but on your pivot table.

March 25th, 2025

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