A package to quickly send Slack alerts in a Laravel app
Our team has released a small package called spatie/laravel-slack-alerts. It can be used to send a message to Slack quickly. In this blog post, I'd like to share why...
Jan 21st 2022 • freek.dev

A better error page for Symfony applications
Ignition is the most beautiful error page for PHP apps. Yesterday, we launched a new major version of Ignition - you can check out all the details in
Jan 19th 2022 • freek.dev

Dealing with dependencies
This post was originally sent to my newsletter. I've written a lot about PHP 8.1 these past months. Not just about the release itself, but also about how important...
Jan 19th 2022 • stitcher.io

Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP, got a major redesign
I'm proud to share that our team has released a new major version of Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP. It has been redesigned from the...
Jan 18th 2022 • freek.dev

"It's your fault"
I read an intriguing blog post yesterday. It's an old one dating back to 2008, titled "Even if a function doesn’t do anything, you still have to call it...
Jan 15th 2022 • stitcher.io

Twitter home made me miserable
This post was originally sent to my newsletter in November, 2021. I wanted to share it here as well, just to hear some more thoughts. Two months...
Jan 14th 2022 • stitcher.io

How I plan
I love getting mail. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that by now. I received a mail today from Muhammad, asking me a question...
Jan 13th 2022 • stitcher.io

PHP in 2022
It's the fourth time I'm writing a yearly "PHP in 20XX" post, and I must admit I've never been as excited about it as this year: we've seen awesome new...
Jan 11th 2022 • stitcher.io

Laravel Blade & View Models
A view model represents data for a specific view or page. In its simplest form, a view model is a plain PHP object with a bunch of (typed) properties.
Jan 10th 2022 • sebastiandedeyne.com

PHP version stats: January, 2022
It's that time again: my biyearly summary of which PHP versions are used across the community. It's been 6 months since my previous post and during that time
Jan 10th 2022 • stitcher.io