LCPT July: Showcasing Laravel Side Projects
Welcome to our July meetup!
This time around we'll be doing something a little different: Laravel side project showcases! We'll have three speakers giving lightning talks on their projects and what they've learned with them, that you might not always learn during your dayjob.
For this event we'll be graciously hosted by Sinov8 in Durbanville. On-street parking is available in the area.
Bring your best vibes and connect with peers!
If you'd like to become a speaker, sponsor, or help with the meetup, please reach out to us! www.laravelcapetown.co.za
The Speakers & Talks
John Roux, CTO & Staff Eng consultant @ RouxtAccess
From building startups to fixing the latest vibe coding security issues, John's been around the block with all things PHP. These days he spends his time working for fun startups and building reliable tech that scales without needing support, so that he can spend his time thinking about the next project.
(Disclaimer: he's known to be available for advisory work in a freelance capacity)
John's talk is about having fun solving problems:
Let's take a tour through one of his more active side projects as an example in how simple it really is to build something yourself and provide huge business value!
Jonathan Aspeling, Solutions Architect @ Amberstone
A unicorn Developer with a passion for solving business problems and mentoring promising & interesting people.
Jonathan's talk is on using Raspberry Pi for self-hosting Laravel projects:
We're looking at the ability to make use of your fast internet speed at home to self host projects. All from a little Laracasts course! How this helped strengthen essential skills in and around the Laravel ecosystem what with learnings on related technologies like Linux, Nginx, Github Actions, Cron, Docker, Raspberry Pi and more. How it increased appreciation for tools like Forge, Envoyer, Ploi, but also how the deeper understanding of hosting for more confidence with future projects.
Jason Tame, Tech Lead @ OfferZen
Jason Tame is a Tech Lead at OfferZen in Cape Town with 8+ years of full-stack development experience and a passion for mentoring developers and building high-performing engineering teams.
Jason's talk is on A recurring personal task scheduler app called Remi:
Built with Laravel, Inertia.js, React and Cloudflare Workers. The main learnings were around how to integrate more complex agentic workflows (orchestration, evaluations, human in the loop) with a Laravel app, using tools like PrismPHP, LangGraph, and Cloudflare Agent SDK.