A newsletter to keep up-to-date with Livewire
Link – – livewire.run
This is a great newsletter run by Liam Hammett. Here's the latest edition, so you know what you're getting into.
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How we added favicons to our site list
Link – – ohdear.app
I really like the simplicity of our solution.
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Stay up to date with all things Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript.
Follow me on Twitter. I regularly tweet out programming tips, and what I myself have learned in ongoing projects.
Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer.
Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.
Rest assured that I will only use your email address to send you the newsletter and will not use it for any other purposes.
Emphpathy
Link – – 24daysindecember.net
In this post Derick Rethans ask maintainers and users to have empathy for each other.
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Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.
Link – – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.
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Splitting a large Laravel Livewire Component
Link – – www.csrhymes.com - submitted by Chris Rhymes
Splitting up a large Laravel Livewire component into more manageable and maintainable chunks
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When I lost a few hundred leads
Link – – stitcher.io
Everybody makes fuckups. When you do, don't be ashamed, just try to learn from it.
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Building the Imagick PHP extension from master
At the time of writing there is no version of Imagick compatible with PHP 8. Fortuntely, the version on the master brach of the Imagick repo seems to work.Here's how you can use it. Clone the repo somewhere on disk Follow the steps mentioned here to create the extension. cd <directory of cloned…
My current setup (end 2020 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
What's new in PHP 8
Link – – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Here's a rundown of all the shiney new features.
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Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
Link – – stitcher.io
Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.
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A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons
Link – – www.sarasoueidan.com
Another nice post by Sara Soueidan.
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Custom attributes in PHP 8
Link – – blog.jetbrains.com
The ArrayShape one is pretty interesting.
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Exclude linting & formatting commits when running Git blame
Link – – tekin.co.uk
As of Git 2.23 there is a way to configure a list of commits for git blame to ignore.
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Modern PHP cheat sheet
Link – – front-line-php.com
This cheat sheet offers handy snippets that demonstrate cool stuff you can do with modern PHP
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Dealing with null
Link – – front-line-php.com
Here's an excerpt taken from Front Line PHP where different strategies to handle null are explained
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Performance improvements in Xdebug 3
Link – – php.watch
Developed by Derick Rethans, Xdebug 2 is the current stable version. Xdebug 3 had its first RC release out just a few days ago, and this post benchmarks the performance improvements in the new version.
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On Exactitude in Technical Debt
Link – – www.oreilly.com
Technical debt is not simply a measure of the specific work needed to repay the debt; it is the additional time and effort added to all past, present, and future work that comes from having the debt in the first place.
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The 6 Stages of Spam Protection
Link – – laracasts.com
Jeffrey Way shares the strategies he uses to combat spam on the Laracasts forum.
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Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently
Link – – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon
I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.
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