Using composer patches
When you use software that is open source, you'll sometimes run into issues or small bugs that have already been fixed by the community in a PR or an issue,...
Feb 3rd 2021
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rias.be
A mail driver to quickly preview mail in Laravel apps
Using our laravel-mail-preview package, you can quickly display mails that are sent by your Laravel application in your browser. Today, we've released v5 of the package. In this blog post,...
Jan 28th 2021
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freek.dev
Simplifying service providers in Laravel packages
In almost every Laravel package, there is a ServiceProvider class responsible for registering bindings package resources such as config files, views, migrations, ... While preparing a workshop that I...
Jan 25th 2021
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freek.dev
Comparing DNS records on two nameservers
We've all been there: you've just manually copied 30+ DNS records from one server to another and you're about to press the metaphorical red button by updating the domain's nameservers....
Jan 25th 2021
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alexvanderbist.com
A storm in a glass of water
I just read a post about PHP 8 that I couldn't just silently ignore. If you want to read it first, go check it out.
With a fitting...
Jan 20th 2021
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stitcher.io
If it were up to me
If it were up to me, I'd change a thing or two about PHP.
Of course, I don't have anything to say about PHP's development, and that's ok. I still...
Jan 13th 2021
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stitcher.io
Websites should be more like Star Wars
I have to admit I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan, but I can enjoy one of the movies from time to time. Whenever I watch one there is one...
Jan 10th 2021
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stitcher.io
Switching between PHP versions with Laravel Valet
Since PHP8 was released we've started upgrading all our projects to PHP 8, the things we can do with attributes, union types and other new features made us desire to...
Jan 8th 2021
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rubenvanassche.com
Switching between PHP versions with Laravel Valet
Since PHP8 was released we've started upgrading all our projects to PHP 8, the things we can do with attributes, union types and other new features made us desire to...
Jan 8th 2021
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rubenvanassche.com
Introducing Ray: a debugging tool for pragmatic developers
I'm proud to announce the immediate release of Ray, a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. Ray is a dedicated window to send dumped values to. It...
Jan 7th 2021
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freek.dev