Imran Hussain

Right, they're down. Where was I? Coding in the 9pm to midnight window as a dad of two

Every evening at about half eight I do the same thing. Bath, teeth, two stories (one of which is always the same dinosaur book, I could recite it in my sleep and sometimes do), one glass of water, one second glass of water, "Dad there's a noise", and then finally, around nine, quiet. I come downstairs, open the laptop and say out loud to nobody, "right, they're down, where was I." The answer, for about the first…

Stripe webhooks in Laravel: verify, queue, return 200, and stop double-fulfilling orders

Kids are asleep, so here's the webhook setup we've been running on an ecommerce client for two years. It came out of a Black Friday where we shipped some lucky customers two of everything. Not Cashier, plain stripe-php, because the client has a custom checkout. Why webhooks go wrong Stripe retries a webhook if you don't answer with a 2xx quickly, and it keeps retrying for up to three days. If your handler does the…