Andy Hinkle

Software Developer

Andy Hinkle

Laravel developer and co-host of The Midwest Artisan podcast. I enjoy solving problems and writing clean, expressive code.

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Writing

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Building a Circuit Breaker for LLM Services in Laravel Auto-Ban Malicious IPs on Cloudflare with Laravel Does using the Circuit Breaker Pattern add too much noise? Display Your Public GitHub Contributions on Your Website Seek Out People Who Care Deeply

Speaking & Podcasts

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Buffalo Wings and Livewire Things

The Midwest Artisan Podcast

Buffalo Wings and Livewire Things

Nov 10, 2025 58 min

Claude Lied, Authorization Died, We Survived

The Midwest Artisan Podcast

Claude Lied, Authorization Died, We Survived

Sep 24, 2025 57 min

Keeping Laravel Elegant When Business Gets Messy

Laravel Worldwide

Keeping Laravel Elegant When Business Gets Messy

Aug 26, 2025

Open Source

laravel/framework

[12.x] Add typed getters on Cache

Jan 30
laravel/framework

[12.x] Add BackedEnum support for session keys

Jan 1
prism-php/prism

feat: backed enums for models

Dec 21
prism-php/prism

Allow `macroable` on base Prism class

Dec 21
laravel/docs

Clarify `local` disk path change in v12 upgrade guide

Jul 23