Duncan McClean

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happiness

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…

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Anthropic

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builtwithcargo.dev

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SaaSinfrastructure

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…

I recently shared how I'm using Laravel Reverb outside of a browser to build a real-time webhook proxy.

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…

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…

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…

documentation

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…

developer tools

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…

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…

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…

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,…