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Calibrating my new Ender 3 Neo

22 March 2023

I purchased an Ender 3 Neo a few months ago and wanted to share my calibration steps and Cura settings that has results in some very good prints!

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Laravel

Re-useable Eloquent Model Filters

13 March 2022

Filters are a tricky thing to get right, and I haven't found the perfect solution yet, but reusable filter classes is close and proved to work very well for rapidly building filters for models.

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Optimising your JavaScript Bundle
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Optimising Your JavaScript Bundle Size

06 December 2021

Front end bundle sizes can quickly spiral out of control. It's good to take a breather and re-evaluate what libraries you're pulling in. I did this recently, lets look at the process I followed.

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Filtering Carbon Period For Flexibility And Performance

28 November 2021

I recently needed to work on a slot based booking system at work. This system needed to accept a few parameters and return "slots" of time where that user is available. I managed to do this in a flexible way by making use of Carbon's CarbonPeriod class and filters. Lets take a look!

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