Typescript is changing how I write code
Link – – evertpot.com
A nice example by Evert Pot on how you can make static analysers do their work better.
Read more [evertpot.com]
How to write exceptionally good exceptions in PHP
In this video, which is part of the mailcoach video course, I show how I like to write my exceptions.
At the time of writing this post, we're running a contenst where you can win a free mailcoach license.
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Adding Commits to Someone Else's Pull Request
Link – – tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
When getting an open source pull request, sometimes you'll need to make a change before merging. Here's how to do that.
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How to refactor complex if statements
Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯
if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
This video is part of the Mailcoach video course. It contains many more videos on how to write clear code. You can use this coupon code to get a nice discount of $10.
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Laravel Tail can now tail remote logs
laravel-tail is one of my favourite packages. When installed in a Laravel app it can be used to tail the log file. To tail a log file locally, you just have to issue this command: php artisan tail and it'll start tailing the latest log file (so it works for both daily and single log files). Any line…
Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
Migrating to PHPUnit 9
Link – – thephp.cc
Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit, walks us through some history and design decisions for PHPUnit.
Read more [thephp.cc]
laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released
Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.
Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.
A PHP package to execute commands via SSH
Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.
AWS VPC for Software Engineers
Link – – blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu
This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.
Read more [blog.deleu.dev]
Calculate the Carbon output of your website
Link – – www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent
How is your website impacting the planet?
Read more [www.websitecarbon.com]
Manage Docker containers using PHP
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.
Capturing the World in Software
Link – – blog.jessitron.com
Very nice post by Jessica Joy Kerr on the benefits and tradeoffs of event sourcing.
We can get a complete, consistent model of a small piece of the world using Event Sourcing. This is powerful but expensive.
Read more [blog.jessitron.com]
Introducing Yarn 2
Link – – dev.to
A good overview of new things Yarn has to offer.
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I wrote 1 blog post every day for 2 years. Here's 5 things I learned about SEO
Link – – flaviocopes.com
Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.
Read more [flaviocopes.com]
Enums without enums in PHP
Link – – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.
Read more [stitcher.io]
PHP: Past and Future
Link – – blog.krakjoe.ninja
Joe Watkins compares the execution speed of PHP 4 against PHP 8. It's amazing how far PHP has come.
Read more [blog.krakjoe.ninja]
I hate regex
Link – – ihateregex.io
A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works
Read more [ihateregex.io]
Mailcoach's (lack of) JavaScript stack
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel
Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.
One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.