When I lost a few hundred leads
Before you start… Some readers have reached out to me and talked about solutions to the technical problems described in this post. I'd like to make clear that...
Nov 29th 2020 • stitcher.io

My current setup (end 2020 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to...
Nov 28th 2020 • freek.dev

Announcing Blogs for Devs
Index 01 – Intro 02 – Content is King 03 – The Stack 04 – Your Audience 05 – Interaction...
Nov 28th 2020 • stitcher.io

What's new in PHP 8
PHP 8 was released on November 26, 2020. You can download it here. It's a new major version, which means that there are some breaking changes, as well...
Nov 26th 2020 • stitcher.io

Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
I'm creating a four-part mini-series on YouTube about generics in PHP: what they are, how we can use them today, and what's possible in the future....
Nov 26th 2020 • stitcher.io

A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes...
Nov 24th 2020 • freek.dev

PHP 8: the null safe operator
If you've used the null coalescing operator in the past, you probably also noticed its shortcomings: null coalescing doesn't work on method calls. Instead you need intermediate checks, or...
Nov 17th 2020 • stitcher.io

Automatically generating your Laravel morph map
Polymorphic relations in Laravel are a very cool feature! You can create a model like Comment and link it to models like Post and Article. Such a link can...
Nov 16th 2020 • rubenvanassche.com

Automatically generating your Laravel morph map
Polymorphic relations in Laravel are a very cool feature! You can create a model like Comment and link it to models like Post and Article. Such a link can...
Nov 16th 2020 • rubenvanassche.com

Media Library Pro makes uploading files to a Laravel app a breeze
I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a...
Nov 12th 2020 • freek.dev