Hey hey hey 👋

PHP developer of 17 years based in Sheffield, UK. PHP developer of 20 years if you count the Grand Theft Auto fan sites I was building while I was meant to be doing school work!

Currently building things for the Radio and Audio industry with Aiir. 📻

Side Projects

As a lot of developers do, I dabble with some side projects!

• Server and Website Management tools with ServerAuth. 🛠️
• Building static sites from markdown with Hosted.md. ☁️
• Converting html to pdfs with GeneratePDFs.com. 📈

Open source

These were scratching my own itch but I also have a couple of open source packages.

• Expressive response helpers for Laravel based APIs - mbarlow/laravel-response-helpers 👌
• Livewire Bell Icon UI for Laravel based user notifications - mbarlow/megaphone / Demo 📣

Outside of Tech

• Beautiful Wife + Daughter 👨‍👩‍👧
• Paintball 🔫
• Drums 🥁
• Wannabe Bassist / Guitarist 🎸

Socials

• https://bsky.app/profile/mikebarlow.uk
• https://x.com/mikebarlow (Although it will always still be Twitter to me)