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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.

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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.

The Forty-Year Programmer

Link – Sep 14th 2022 – codefol.io

A brilliant post by Noah Gibbs with some good insights in what it means to be a developer and the things you should focus on.

A step-debugger for the PHP AST

Link – Sep 13th 2022 – matthiasnoback.nl

A cool new tool by Matthias Noback.

You might not need `useRef` for that

Link – Sep 12th 2022 – flareapp.io

According to the React maintainers, React developers reach for the useEffect hook too quickly. It is far from the only hook with many naive usages. Why won't we go through my favorite example of an incorrect usage for useRef?

Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale

Link – Sep 9th 2022 – fly.io

Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!

Sign your Git commits with 1Password

Link – Sep 8th 2022 – blog.1password.com

A great way to go about signing git commits.

Customising Laravel's URL signing key

Link – Sep 8th 2022 – dyrynda.com.au

How to swap Laravel's URL signing key is not documented, but luckily Michael wrote a good post on it!

Creating installer commands for Laravel packages

Original – Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

One of the joys of using packages in the Laravel ecosystem is how easy they are to install. Packages can be pulled in using Composer, and Laravel will automatically discover them.

In this post, you'll learn how to easily add an install command, making it even easier for package users to start using a package.

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