This article describes a TDD (Test Driven Development) approach to implement a Finite State Machine (FSM) using PHP+Laravel. However, such method is general and could be used in the programming language of your choice.

My system is safe, it uses encryption. You heard/said this from time to time. Sure, but why and how is it safe? Do you really know this?

More than once I needed to render a laravel view as a downlodable file. This task could be easily accomplished

I released on GitHub a PHP library for querying and editing data on the Tado Thermostat System. It is integrated in Laravel 5.x for quick setup in this excellent framework.