Andy Hinkle

Andy Hinkle

Laravel Developer

Hello there! 👋 I'm Andy Hinkle

A software developer from Indiana with over 10 years of experience specializing in Laravel, PHP, and TypeScript.

I'm a Senior App & Web Developer at Gray Loon Marketing Group where I work on a variety of projects ranging from custom web applications to mobile apps.

I'm co-host of the The Midwest Artisan Podcast where we talk about Laravel and all things web development.

Laravel
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
TailwindCSS
React Native
AWS
Livewire
MySQL
Git
Figma
Redis

Recent Posts

Going Hard as Possible in 2025

It’s 2025, and I’m done holding back.

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Avoid Abstraction Until It's Clearly Necessary

We're often drawn to best practices like code reuse, separation of concerns, and maintainability. But there's a fine line between...

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Laracon 2024, a Recap

Let me take you on a little journey, starting with my arrival in Dallas. This was my fourth Laracon—from taking...

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Recent Talks / Podcasts

Do you write down methods in your migrations?

Do you write down methods in your migrations?

In this episode of The Midwest Artisan, we discuss the debate to write down methods in your migrations, Queue Serialization,...

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Nightwatch and Chill

Nightwatch and Chill

In this episode of Midwest Artisan, we discuss Laravel Nightwatch, Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion, DTOs, and practical...

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Validate Everything

Validate Everything

This week we discuss the common occurrence of over-engineered abstractions, digging into post-request logic without losing our minds, analytics, and...

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Contact

If you have any questions or inquiries, please feel free to contact me at chat@andyhinkle.com. Alternatively, you can reach out to me on Twitter at @andyhnk.