Patrick O'Meara
@patomeara
CTO @maintainlyhq, father, @php_melbourne organiser, soda water enthusiast. Laravel | React | Expo. Yorta Yorta | Naarm
I’ve been really impressed with all things TanStack recently. I migrated across to router for the search param types, then added query. I’ll probably end up using form and table as well. Great documentation, amazing developer experience. Nice work @tannerlinsley and team.
I'll be presenting tonight at @phpxmel on Refactoring to Actions. We will look at making your code more focused, testable and reusable by using actions, specifically @lorismatic's Laravel Actions package I'll also be paying homage to @adamwathan's Refactoring to Collections
We are stoked to have Zach Jensz returning to share more frontend goodness. HTML and CSS Are Eating JavaScript Alive What used to take megabytes of JavaScript can now be done with a sprinkle of HTML and CSS—come get a taste of what’s possible. zachjensz.com
The next meetup is June 19th. Looking forward to getting the community together again. Thanks to our sponsors @maintainlyhq, OC House, @jetbrains and OK200. meetup.com/php-melbourne/…
Talk proposals are open for the June @php_melbourne meetup. We would love to hear about what you're working on or what you're interested in. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
I’m currently working on a @laravelphp feature I’ve wanted for a while. I’m interested to see if it scratches an itch for others as well. ❤️
Here is a little #Typescript utility type I reach for a lot. It's helpful in cases where a property is sometimes always defined. 😃

It's been a month since Laravel Cloud launched and a lot of us are seeing our first invoices It might have been higher than expected so I wanted to put together this video on 5 tips to save money on Laravel Cloud
Where was security on this one? Liberals are only allowed to be surrounded by friendly media aka Australian Media.
Are the wheels falling off the Liberal campaign?
Finally, Karan Katnani will be taking us through The Art of Problem Solving. Ever find yourself diving straight into code before fully understanding the problem? We'll walk through a simple but powerful approach to help solve real-world problems! meetup.com/php-melbourne/…
Next up we have @Alli_g83 coming back to present: Asynchronously Juggling with Symfony HTTP Client We will explore a little-known tool, the AsyncDecoratorTrait feature of the Symfony HttpClient component. meetup.com/php-melbourne/…
Here is the first speaker announcement for PHP Melbourne's March meetup. @simonhamp will be joining via video with Building NativePHP for mobile. A behind-the-scenes dive into the "magic" that allows us to run Laravel apps directly on mobile devices and access native features.
The next PHP Melbourne meetup is March 20. If you have a talk idea please submit it via the proposal form. Please share far and wide ❤️ 🐘 meetup.com/php-melbourne/…
👋@romalyt Scramble looks awesome! Is there plans to handle FormRequest classes?
As discussed in my talk at @php_melbourne, the current instructions in the docs to implement a custom @laravelphp notification channel is not quite right. I have created a PR to fix this: github.com/laravel/docs/p… And 9 more PRs to 10000!
This Thursday, in my talk, I will vote @php_melbourne attendees to the NBA All Star Game 2025 🤩. We will use an unconventional tech stack of PubSub, Firestore, Mailjet and Twilio.
Next week's @php_melbourne meetup will feature @Alli_g83 talking about @symfony's scheduler. Allison has presented at numerous conferences including SymfonyConf and @ApiPlatform Conf. Allison is a French Developer who is currently in Melbourne. Link to follow. Can't wait!