Duncan McClean

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  • The good old days... 11 Oct 2026 Remember the good old days when you'd sit down, open your editor, put on some music and write code? Maybe you'd copy from StackOverflow every now and then, but for the most part, it was you, hands on keyboard, writing e…
  • Best Before 2 Oct 2026 Have you ever shipped a backfill command or a temporary fix to production, and wanted to make sure you clean up after yourself one day? You could add a // TODO or a ticket to your backlog, but you know it'll be forgotte…
  • Setting up Satis on Laravel Forge 22 May 2026 We recently needed to set up Satis for private packages at work. For those not aware, Satis is effectively a static site generator used to serve private Composer packages. We could have used Private Packagist, but we op…

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  • Talking Statamic Podcast 10 Mar 2026 Michael LaRoy recently invited me onto the Talking Statamic podcast to chat all things Statamic 6, Cargo and Runway. I had a great time! You can listen on YouTube or in your favourite podcasting app.
  • Cargo 1.0 is out! 📦🚀 29 Jan 2026 Cargo is a comprehensive e-commerce addon for Statamic. It’s built for small to medium-sized businesses that want bespoke e-commerce sites, without the complexity and overhead of larger platforms. Cargo behaves like a f…
  • Year In Review 2025 13 Dec 2025 I haven’t written one of these in a while. I’m not much of a reflection person, but enough happened this year that it felt worth capturing. Work Statamic Work has been busy. We originally planned to ship Statamic 6 arou…
  • Statamic Meetup in Alkmaar 🇳🇱 13 Oct 2025 The other day I gave my first talk at the Statamic Meetup in Alkmaar, Netherlands. I was talking about building e-commerce sites with Cargo, my upcoming e-commerce addon for Statamic. I had a great time. Thanks again to…
  • Uses (September 2025) 6 Sept 2025 This post lists all the tools, services, and equipment I use day-in, day-out. I'll update this post whenever I make any major changes to my setup. If you want to see other people's setups, check out github.com/wesbos/aw…
  • Cargo is now in Alpha! 22 Aug 2025 It's been a long time coming, but Cargo is finally in alpha! 🎉 Cargo is basically a complete rewrite of Simple Commerce. It's been a massive amount of work, but I'm really happy with how it's turned out and I can't wai…
  • Configuring public access to Meilisearch on Laravel Forge 18 Jun 2025 Meilisearch is a super fast search engine that's easy to self-host on your own infrastructure, avoiding the need for another Saas subscription. If you're using Laravel Forge, setting up Meilisearch is super simple: Prov…
  • Demo: Using Laravel Reverb outside of a browser 📡 23 May 2025 I recently shared how I'm using Laravel Reverb outside of a browser to build a real-time webhook proxy.
  • Update on Cargo / Simple Commerce 23 May 2025 Cargo (the new version Simple Commerce) is basically done. 🛍️ I recently invited a handful of folks into the GitHub repo to help me test things before I make it publicly available. It's built on top of Statamic 6, so I…
  • Pair with me 🍐 7 Feb 2025 After pairing with Ben Holmen last week, I've decided to open up my calendar and take part in the "Pair-amid Scheme". I'm very much an introvert, so pairing with strangers is a little outside my comfort zone, but I'm ho…
  • The Future of Simple Commerce 20 Aug 2024 It's nearly been five years since I started working on Simple Commerce. It started out as a way for me to play around with the Statamic 3 Alpha, but slowly and surely grew into the most popular way to build e-commerce s…
  • Setting up Xdebug's profiler with Laravel Herd & PHPStorm 15 Jul 2024 Laravel Herd now has first-party support for profiling, without needing to change any Xdebug settings. See their documentation: https://herd.laravel.com/docs/1/advanced-usage/profiler I recently made the switch to Larav…
  • Simple Git Blame 2 Feb 2024 I've recently found myself going to the GitHub website multiple times a day to gather context on the code I'm looking at in my code editor. I looked at some VS Code extensions which allow you to view a "git blame" insid…
  • Select dropdown cells with Laravel Excel 22 Sept 2023 An application I work on automatically generates & sends an spreadsheet export, with a few fields pre-filled. The user can then populate the rest of the data and upload it back into the application. However, one of the…
  • Simple Commerce v5 released! 28 Apr 2023 I've just tagged the latest release of Simple Commerce, version 5. It includes a new concept of order & payment statuses, now supports Stripe Payment Elements out of the box, improves developer experience around buildin…
  • Using Torchlight with Statamic's Bard field 26 Sept 2022 Torchlight is a really awesome API for syntax highlighting. In the past, folks might have used libraries like Prism or highlight.js. These libraries work but they're not completely accurate. Whereas, Torchlight uses the…
  • Under the hood of the Duplicator addon 21 May 2022 Duplicator is by far my most popular Statamic addon, by downloads at least. And to be honest, it's probably one of my simplest. Duplicator registers a few actions: one for each of the 'things' you can delete - an entry,…

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  • Join me and the rest of the Statamic community at Statamic Summit in February. We literally bought out a whole castle for the week 🏰 14 Oct 2026
  • Wrote a little about how I miss the pre-AI days of putting on some music, opening my editor and just locking in to write code. AI has changed all that, and I'm not sure it's made me any happier. 12 Oct 2026 duncanmcclean.com
  • Just published Best Before, a package to make sure temporary code, like backfill commands, is deleted instead of hanging around for years. Plop #[BestBefore('2026-12-25')] on a class or a method and CI will fail once it's gone off. Like out-of-date milk! 🥛 2 Oct 2026

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  • Cargo 1.14.1 is out with a security fix for stores using Stripe or Mollie. Please update as soon as possible. 🔒 2 Oct 2026 github.com
  • Automatic Renewals have been a long time coming... and they're finally here! 🚀 You can enable renewals for Statamic & Cargo during checkout or from your account's licenses page. 17 Sept 2026
  • I released a few common feature requests for Cargo over the weekend! 📦 - Added support for "Free Shipping" discounts - Improved line item metadata support (it's now visible in the CP!) - cargo:install now publishes an "order shipped" email 14 Sept 2026
  • Ooh, what could I be building? 👀 8 Sept 2026
  • I guess I need to cleanup my worktrees! 8 Sept 2026
  • It's a small thing, but I've just added support for reordering models in Runway. It works exactly the same as reorderable collections — click "Reorder", move stuff about, then hit "Save". Released in v9.7.0 (https://t.co/8oF8FJE8Ix) 4 Sept 2026
  • Yay, my agents are all nice and organised now! 🎉 31 Aug 2026
  • On my way home from my 1st @laravellivedk in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 It’s such an awesome conference - would recommend going next year if you can! 22 Aug 2026
  • Great day 1 at @laravellivedk! 20 Aug 2026
  • Before releasing Cargo earlier this year, I thought I was gonna hire someone to help me keep up with bugs & feature requests. Today, I barely look at bug reports. I point Claude at the issue, it opens a PR, and after a quick review I ship it. 🚀 18 Aug 2026
  • Here's a sneak peek of what I've been heads down on for the last few months! 👀 7 Aug 2026 statamic.com
  • Glasgow's famous traffic cone made it into the featured image! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Erin tried one on too! 6 Aug 2026
  • I’ve landed in Boston! ✈️ Thought I’d visit Dunkin’s - my namesake coffee shop. 26 Jul 2026
  • You can now link to Runway models with Statamic's Link fieldtype, just like you can with entries and assets. 🔗 22 Jul 2026
  • I've added a Showcase page to the Cargo site featuring some of the real sites folks have built. If you've built something with Cargo, submit yours! 😄 18 Jul 2026 builtwithcargo.dev
  • This can't be good 17 Jul 2026
  • I've just added a "Watching online" option to filter out breaks and social events. 💅 13 Jul 2026

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  • New repobuiltwithcargo-offline 21 Oct 2026
  • simple-commerce — A simple, yet powerful e-commerce addon for Statamic. 21 Oct 2026
  • cookie-notice — A simple, lightweight cookie consent widget for your Statamic site. 20 Oct 2026

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  • guest-entries — Allow users to create, update & delete entries from the front-end of your site 20 Oct 2026
  • vue-component-debug — Adds HTML comments to the start and end of each Vue component. 17 Oct 2026
  • dotfiles — These are my dotfiles. 16 Oct 2026
  • statamic-cargo — Comprehensive e-commerce addon for Statamic. Build bespoke e-commerce sites without the complexity. 16 Oct 2026
  • best-before — Give temporary classes and methods a best before date, then fail CI once they've gone off. 16 Oct 2026
  • simple-git-blame — A Simple Git Blame command for VS Code. 13 Oct 2026
  • laracon-schedule 9 Oct 2026
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  • tether — Link local composer packages to your sandbox for local development. 5 Sept 2026
  • freeagent-mcp — Local, read-only MCP server for FreeAgent. Built on Laravel. 24 Aug 2026
  • post-release-comments — GitHub Action which comments on Issues and Pull Requests when they've been addressed within a release. 9 Aug 2026
  • pestphp-formdata-bug 16 Jan 2026
  • static-cache-manager — Clear your site's static cache from the Control Panel. 5 Dec 2025

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