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

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Oh Dear 2.0 has been launched

Original – Oct 3rd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 27 minute read

I'm proud to announce that we have launched a redesigned Oh Dear. If you're unfamiliar with Oh Dear, it's the best all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. You can register for a 10-day free trial.

You can help us spread the good news by upvoting us on Product Hunt, or retweeting our launch tweet.

In this blog post, I'd like to share what Oh Dear can do for you, how we've rebuilt various parts, and give you an overview of the technology behind the service.

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Use a view instead of a complex Eloquent query in your Laravel application

Link – Oct 3rd 2022 – tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström

What is a database view, and how can we use it to make our code cleaner?

Using a datalist instean of a dropdown in your forms

Link – Oct 1st 2022 – tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström

Have you ever had a huge list of values that the users needs to scroll through to get to the item they wanted, you know the classic Country dropdown, and for me who lives in Sweden will have to scroll through a load of countries to get to the desired one.

Writing Wordle In JavaScript

Link – Sep 30th 2022

A nice video tutorial by Bert De Swaef.

My process for writing the freek.dev newsletter

Original – Sep 29th 2022 – mailcoach.app

My team and I are currently working on the hosted version of Mailcoach Cloud, which now is in public beta. Using the Markdown capabilities of Mailcoach and its API, I can easily create new editions of my own newsletter.

Introducing LiteFS

Link – Sep 29th 2022 – fly.io

The good people at Fly.io have but together a way to use SQLite in a distributed way.

Upcoming Livewire v3 Features and Changes

Link – Sep 28th 2022 – laravel-news.com

I'm very excited for Livewire v3. The new features look amazing!

How to Get Better at Customer Interviews

Link – Sep 27th 2022 – userlist.com

Some good advice by Michele Hansen

Critically Engaging With Models

Link – Sep 26th 2022 – verraes.net

Our worldviews are grown from other people’s models. How do we control what models we let in?

A package to manage dynamic servers

Original – Sep 26th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-dynamic-servers.

This package can help start and stop servers when you need them. The prime use case is to spin up extra working servers to help you process the workload on queues.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Six New'ish HTML Tags You Can Use Right Now

Link – Sep 23rd 2022

Jeffrey Way of Laracasts showcases some nice HTML goodness.

The self-fulfilling prophecy of React

Link – Sep 21st 2022 – joshcollinsworth.com

Some critical thoughts about React. I think the criteria used to determine if React is the right tool, can be used to think critical about your favourite framemework / piece of software.

Is it a DTO or a Value Object?

Link – Sep 20th 2022 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback explains the difference.

Exploring Laravel Stubs

Link – Sep 19th 2022

Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.

I shall define this only once

Original – Sep 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's my talk on our popular Laravel Data package, which I gave at Laracon Online earlier this week.

Using CLion with php-src

Link – Sep 18th 2022 – dev.to

Ben Ramsey explains how can start working on PHP's source code using JetBrains' C IDE.

Named arguments

Link – Sep 18th 2022 – sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleage Sebastian digs named arguments in PHP. As do I!

How to filter outgoing emails in Laravel

Link – Sep 16th 2022 – ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use event listeners to stop outgoing emails just before they're sent.

Granular interfaces

Link – Sep 16th 2022 – sebastiandedeyne.com

As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.

The “It's Just Like...” Heuristic

Link – Sep 15th 2022 – verraes.net

Why feeling that you understand a new idea, is a sign that you didn't.