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Out of the box, Laravel comes with the ability to generate "signed" URLs. These URLs have a hash in their query string that verifies that the URL was not modified.

At Flare, we use these signed URLs to add action links in mail notifications. The action links allow users to snooze and resolve errors right from the mail without having to be logged in. Pretty convenient!

My buddy Dries Vints noticed a slight drawback. He got a mail from Flare that contains these action links. A few hours after the mail arrived, he clicked one of the action links. This is what he saw.

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Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.

Typically, you would only add routes that are necessary for the users of your app. Something that I have been doing for a long time is to create a routes file, called dev.php, with routes that can help with app development.

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PHP is a fantastic language that has seen many cool improvements over the past few years. What you may not be aware of is that only a very few people can work on the language itself. This is obviously not healthy and hopefully this situation will improve in the future.

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Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach

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In this stream my colleague Brent and I continued our conversation about the foundations of event sourcing. This time we showed a shopping cart that we've built using Laravel and event sourcing.

If you're interested in learning more about event sourcing, be sure to check out our upcoming course on using event sourcing in Laravel.

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Our team released a new package called spatie/fork. Using this package you can easily execute multiple pieces of code concurrently.

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Some best practices and tips for composing high quality pull requests when contributing to open source projects.

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Let's dive into some of the design considerations you might make when designing abstractions that reach over a network.

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All models are wrong but simple models are more wrong than complex ones. Simple models are more appealing, easier to teach and spread and apply. Because of that, they can bring value faster, and they can cause harm faster.

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My colleague Seb quickly explains how to use chokidar

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This is a very nice talk given by Eric Evans at DDD Europe 2018. He argues that sometimes try to solve a problem, without reaching to existing solutions, might provide good insights.

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PHP has several over 30 functions at the moment that make use of special OPCodes or otherwise inlined to improve performance.

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Stefan Zweifel created a nice workflow to automatically merge dependabot PRs when all tests pass

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Here's the recording of Laravel Wordwide Meetup #8. My guests for this edition were Kai Sassnowski talking on the importance of DB indexes, and Sebastian De Deyne on how to use Vite in Laravel.

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Last week, my colleague Ruben and I launched a major new feature at Flare: there's a new integration with GitHub that makes it possible to:

• create a GitHub issue directly on a Flare error
• associate a GitHub issue with a Flare error by mentioning a Flare URL in the GitHub issue
• automatically resolve an error on Flare when you close the GitHub issue
• automatically close a GitHub issue when you resolve an error in Flare

In this stream, Ruben and I will show you how you can use this integration and how it works under the hood.

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With the launch of the Inertia Vue 3 0.3.0 release, however, the boilerplate required to create forms was drastically reduced.

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Distributing speaking time can be tricky when meeting face to face, but it is usuallly worse in virtual meetings. Especially those spanning long distances.

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I do want to point out that print debugging has one critical feature that most step-based debuggers don't have: you can see program state from multiple time steps all at once.

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In this video we'll take a look at how large chunks of output can be tested in Mailcoach using snapshots.

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I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.

In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.

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