Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

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Unique jobs and reserving resources on the queue

Link – Dec 1st 2022 – timacdonald.me

Tim MacDonald wrote a nice post on how to handle duplicate requests.

Dynamically Generating Thousands of OG Images for a Viral Twitter Campaign

Link – Nov 30th 2022 – www.netlify.com

Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.

Always use [closed, open) intervals

Link – Nov 29th 2022 – fhur.me

A good tip by Fernando Hurtado

The making of the WWSD videos

Original – Nov 28th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…

We've made another WWSD Video

Original – Nov 22nd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

🏎️💨 Here's another WWSD video to promote the 50% discount we'll have today on Laravel Comments and Media Library Ppro. All other spatie product are discounted 30%.

Spatie's Black Friday sales have begun

Original – Nov 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

We made a fun intro video to celebrate our Black Friday sales.

TLDR: All Spatie products are discounted 30% for a week, Mailcoach is discounted 50% only today.

Laravel and PHP developers to follow on Mastodon

Original – Nov 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn't come to that.

Through years of curating people to follow, I've built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That's why I've already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.

Spatie WWSD 2022

Original – Nov 17th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

We've made a fun video to announce Spatie's Black Friday sales. Have a look!

Introducing PHP 8.2: all new features and changes

Original – Nov 15th 2022 by Ruben Van Assche – 9 minute read

PHP 8.2 will be released on 8th December 2022, and is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.

Queue workers for serverless Laravel applications

Link – Nov 15th 2022 – workerless.run

With Workerless you can configure the maximum concurrency across multiple queues and control the queue prioritization on AWS. This tool and beautiful website was created by Mohamed Said.

The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas

Link – Nov 14th 2022 – blog.nateliason.com

Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it.