Marty Friedel
Marty Friedel

Hello, I'm Marty

I build things on the web.

I am a full-stack Laravel and Statamic web developer, landscape photographer, Lego fan, video gamer and group exercise instrutor living in Adelaide, Australia

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Thoughts, ideas, tutorials and practical guides on Statamic, Laravel, Livewire and more.

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I'm the Head Code Monkey and co-founder of Mity Digital, an Australian Laravel Partner agency.

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Outside of work, you'll find me teaching Les Mills classes and sharing my love of group fitness.

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I speak about web development, mental health and life as a developer.

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Being seen A few sincere congratulations after my first City to Bay got me thinking about the communities I’m part of, and how genuine encouragement can help us feel seen and valued. 22 Sep 2026 4 min read
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“Thinking in Livewire” at PHPxADL Learning Livewire needed a shift in how I pictured an application, and this talk shares the mental model that helped me connect its parts and simplify my development workflow. 4 Sep 2026 2 min read
Blade
Adding support for Blade form field snippets in Statamic Publishing Antlers form snippets into a Blade-based site felt inconsistent, so I contributed an update that makes the generated templates follow the site’s configured language. 15 May 2026 3 min read
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Using the Dictionary fieldtype in your Statamic front end forms A form’s dropdown options don’t need maintaining by hand, and Statamic’s Dictionaries can bring application data into the form while keeping submission emails meaningful for their recipients. 14 May 2026 5 min read
AI
AI froze, and I coded: why developer experience matters A day when AI produced nothing reminded me why development experience still matters, and how useful it is to keep writing, learning and understanding code yourself. 10 Apr 2026 4 min read
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