Announcing our secret project
These past few months, my team and I have worked on something that we think will be very usefull for PHP and Laravel devs. At 14:30 CEST you can see me...
Jan 7th 2021 • freek.dev

Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS
When playing around with a load testing tool and Laravel queues I started noticing a weird pattern: every 22 dispatched jobs, there would be a 5 second delay on all...
Jan 4th 2021 • alexvanderbist.com

jq
I rediscovered jq the other day, a little command line tool to format, read, and transform JSON from the command line. Jq falls into one of my favorite categories of...
Jan 4th 2021 • sebastiandedeyne.com

How to be right on the internet
The internet is a wonderful place. It's full of knowledge, it enables us to stay close to family and friends, and sometimes there are people who get under your skin...
Dec 31st 2020 • stitcher.io

A recap of 2020
What a year this has been. I guess that in January, nobody suspected that we'd got ourselves a worldwide pandemic on our hands. For many people, 2020 has been a pretty...
Dec 21st 2020 • freek.dev

Using Laravel Blade with Statamic
Statamic v3 has added support for other template languages in addition to their own "Antlers" templating language. Recently when creating a new website for one of our clients,...
Dec 21st 2020 • rias.be

Using Laravel Blade with Statamic
Statamic v3 has added support for other template languages in addition to their own "Antlers" templating language. Recently when creating a new website for one of our clients,...
Dec 21st 2020 • rias.be

Consistency
There are two bike stalls near my apartment. One is right in front of the door, the other around the corner. The one in front of the door is closest,...
Dec 18th 2020 • sebastiandedeyne.com

Refactoring the mailcoach codebase to domains
I'm currently working on the next major version of Mailcoach, a package that allows you to send e-mail campaigns using your Laravel app. The package is already quite big, and...
Dec 17th 2020 • freek.dev

Installing Blackfire on Laravel Vapor
Over at Flare we're dealing with a lot of traffic on just one endpoint backed by AWS Lambda. Our base approach here is "store first, process later" (later meaning just...
Dec 17th 2020 • flareapp.io