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Konstantin Kudryashov, one of the speakers at the upcoming Full Stack Europe conference, makes the case for sharing new insights early.

When you build new feature as a team, and it requires a lot of new learning, do not hoard new knowledge in your head. Instead, incrementally commit each unit of learning into working code. Hide that partial logic behind a feature flag. The feature would be incomplete, but work-in-progress outputs will expose meaningful and demonstrable progress. To increase team’s awareness of outputs, add links into the feature tracker or documentation.

Read more [stakeholderwhisperer.com]

It's funny that even something as simple as a blog app is never finished. One and a half years ago, I did a significant update my moving my blog from WordPress to a Laravel app. In August of last year, I also ditched my custom admin section in favor of Nova. Even though not that much time has passed, it was time for a refresh of the entire blog.

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My colleague Brent offers some insights on a big project we're currently working on at Spatie.

The month May marks the first year anniversary of a client project I've been working on at Spatie. I thought it useful to share some statistics with the community, and give you a feeling of what a "real life web project" might look like.

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Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.

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Here's a talk by Mark Seeman that explains the differences between object oriented and functional programming.

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Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.

Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.

https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html

EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.

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Here's the keynote DHH gave at RailsConf 2019

You can also read the entire piece here.

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🔥💡 Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?

Ever wondered what "hydrate" means? I've been there. Then I realized it's just a fancy word for filling an object with data.

In this Eloquent Builder example, Laravel fills a new collection object with models from an array. pic.twitter.com/D5t0EVnksM

— Christoph Rumpel 🤠 (@christophrumpel) May 17, 2019

I always knew the browser was pretty smart about dealing with what I thought was incomplete HTML, but I didn't know the HTML5 spec actually defined a bunch of tags as optional 🤯

Google actually recommends writing your HTML this way:https://t.co/t3fu98s5IM pic.twitter.com/v2RAr5Whl9

— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) May 18, 2019

You know `firstOrFail`, `firstOrCreate`, etc in @laravel

There's also a simple `firstOr` that will run a callback if not found pic.twitter.com/q7QmPR1y1S

— Jeff Madsen (@codebyjeff) May 19, 2019

Jonathan Reinink wrote another awesome post on how to handle a complicated query.

I was asked recently how to calculate multiple totals (aggregates) in Laravel in the most efficient way. For example, maybe you have an email subscription service and want to display various totals based on your subscribers

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At the Clarabridge Developers blog, Toon Daelman wrote a good post on how to improve your exceptions.

You've made it to this post thinking "Why do we still need to talk about Exceptions?". Well, they're used everywhere in OOP codebases, but sometimes they're used in a way that make debugging a bit difficult. Let's look at some ways to make debugging exceptions a bit more fun!

Read more [engagor.github.io]

📣 PSA: <title> tags matter (especially for people browsing the web with screen readers)

ICYMI: https://t.co/g7IdUkEjiQ pic.twitter.com/ANIjMZUMDN

— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) May 28, 2019

? Laravel quick tip

Use ->map->only on Eloquent collections to pluck multiple attributes pic.twitter.com/z3c1sOox9J

— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) May 21, 2019

In this video Jason McCreary creates a PR that adds a null driver to our laravel-newsletter package.

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In a new blogpost, Sebastian De Deyne compares Vue syntax with React syntax.

This post is a succinct rundown of most Vue features, and how I would write them with React in 2019 with hooks.

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When a request comes in your app will return a response. To create that response, your application has to do some work. Most likely queries will execute. This all takes some time. Wouldn't it be nice if the same request comes in, we can return the response the application has constructed previously?

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laravel-validation-rules is a package that contains handy custom validation rules that are being used in various client projects we made at Spatie. Last week I added a new validate rule called Delimited to the package.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we added it and how it can be used.

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In an awesome post, my colleague Brent explains that PHP is in a very good state nowadays. If you dismissed the language previously, now is a good time to take another look.

PHP managed to evolve quite a bit since the 5.* days. Today I'm addressing the people who are either not programming in PHP anymore, or are stuck in legacy projects.

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Matt Allan explains why using an offset is slow when used on large datasets.

It turns out it’s easy to page through results without using offset. All we have to do is keep track of the last ID we saw, then filter the results so we only fetch rows we haven’t seen.

Read more [mattallan.me]