"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

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

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

A recap of 2021
Now that we are in the final days of 2021, let's take a look back at that stuff my team and I did in 2021. On a personal...
Dec 23rd 2021 • freek.dev

Using MySQL `order by` while keeping one value at the end
The other day I needed to sort a dataset in MySQL and ensure one value was always at the end. I never fully understood how order by works, so I...
Dec 16th 2021 • sebastiandedeyne.com

How we improved Flare in 2021
The main goal of Flare is to be the best error tracking for Laravel applications. When we launched Flare, we offered a lot of niceties like decompiled Blade views, solutions...
Dec 15th 2021 • flareapp.io

Fixing the dreaded "'pcre2.h' file not found" error when installing imagick
Whenever I upgrade PHP, I seem to have troubles installing imagick. This command pecl install imagick always results in an error "'pcre2.h'...
Dec 14th 2021 • freek.dev