Choosing a frontend framework
A question I've gotten a few times after my talk or sharing Svelte by Example is which frontend framework I'd choose these days. Here's the good news: these days...
Jan 29th 2024 sebastiandedeyne.com

Generating status badges using PHP
Recently, we introduced a nice new feature to Oh Dear: status badges. A status badge is a beautiful SVG that shows the uptime status of your site. Here’s...
Jan 27th 2024 freek.dev

Why did my email bounce?
The differences between a soft and hard bounce.
Jan 26th 2024 mailcoach.app

Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production
Recently, people started talking about a malware called “Androxgh0st” specifically targeting Laravel apps. In a recent edition of Securing Laravel, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote a good explanation of how it works....
Jan 22nd 2024 freek.dev

A mini package to calculate public holidays in a country
We released a mini package called spatie/holidays that can calculate the public holidays of a country. ou can get all holidays for a country by using the get...
Jan 17th 2024 freek.dev

Calculate which days you don't have to work!
We released a mini package called spatie/holidays which helps with calculating the public holidays of a country.
Jan 17th 2024 vanpachtenbeke.com

Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF
Last week, we released a new package called Laravel PDF that allows you to transform Blade views into PDFs. Under the hood, Chromium is used to perform the transformation....
Jan 16th 2024 freek.dev

Cleverness
From The Tao of Pooh: Remember when Kanga and Roo came to the Forest? Immediately, Rabbit decided that he didn't like them, because they were Different. Then he...
Jan 11th 2024 sebastiandedeyne.com

My interview questions when hiring a front-end / back-end / whatever developer at Spatie
I just read this nice blog post that contains a few tips on how to interview a Laravel developer. When hiring someone at Spatie, I usually tend to get...
Jan 10th 2024 freek.dev

Flare ❤️ GitLab
An introduction to the Flare GitLab integration! Read more
Jan 10th 2024 freek.dev