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A recap of 2023

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At the end of each year, I usually write a full recap of everything I’ve done throughout the past 365 days.

This time, the recap will be much shorter as this year contained more days I’d like to forget than days I’d like to remember. Due to strain caused by events happening in my personal life, I’ve been struggling finding energy to do things I want to do well.

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New major versions for spatie/image and Laravel Media Library have been released

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

We’ve released a new major version of spatie/image, v3. This package makes it very easy to manipulate images using PHP.

At the same time, we’ve also released a new major version of spatie/laravel-medialibrary. This is a powerhouse package that can associate all kinds of files with Eloquent models. The latest version of this package now uses spatie/image v3 under the hood for manipulating images.

In this blog post, I’ll explain why we made new major versions and how they can be used.

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Caching Strategies In Laravel

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When it comes to caching, we have to balance performance gains with increased cost of complexity and infrastructure. In our latest post, we talk through a few different caching strategies and approaches so you know the best caching tool for any situation.

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