The evolution of a PHP object throughout the years
This is just a fun little post I wrote because I wanted to visualise how my data transfer objects have evolved over the years.
# August...
Jul 29th 2021
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stitcher.io
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when...
Jul 27th 2021
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freek.dev
We don't need runtime type checks
Do you want to make a guess about when I last encountered a TypeError in one of my projects? To be honest, I can't remember, so it's probably...
Jul 26th 2021
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stitcher.io
Would you like some optimism or realism with your estimate, sir?
I've already made quite a lot of project estimates in my programming career. In these last three years, I've been estimating (and building) lots of features for one specific project....
Jul 23rd 2021
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stitcher.io
Use Blink to execute something once and only once
Our Blink package is marketed as a caching solution to memoize data for the duration of a web request. Recently, we came upon another use case for the package:...
Jul 22nd 2021
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sebastiandedeyne.com
PHP 8.1: before and after
The release of PHP 8.1 will be here within a few months, and once again there are many features that get me excited! In this post I want to...
Jul 16th 2021
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stitcher.io
Adding backlinks to a GitHub wiki
Backlinks, or bi-directional liks, are becoming table-stakes for productivity apps since they’ve been popularized by Roam. It’s a simple concept: when you create a link from page A to...
Jul 16th 2021
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sebastiandedeyne.com
Rethinking with events
I'm working on a new feature for our Spatie website: I'm adding a lightweight form of gamification for our ±10.000 users.
Here's how it works: every time a...
Jul 14th 2021
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stitcher.io
An event-driven mindset
I'm working on a new feature for our Spatie website: I'm adding a lightweight form of gamification for our ±10,000 users.
Here's how it works: every time a...
Jul 14th 2021
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stitcher.io
How to render markdown with perfectly highlighted code snippets
When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect. Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses...
Jul 13th 2021
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freek.dev