Read-only web apps
If you’re about to build a web app and you’re pretty sure it requires JavaScript, why not pause and consider whether you can provide a read-only version.
Read more [adactio.com]
Why talking to users is a must for every product team
We can’t possibly build products that are useful, let alone delightful, if we don’t frequently talk to the people who’ll use it.
Read more [www.markhamsq.com]
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Dreaming of nested properties in PHP
My colleague Seb has an interesting though on a future PHP feature.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
How we use CSS custom properties to customize your newsletter archive original
Here's an interesting technique that we use in Mailcoach.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Laravel Envoy - Automate the boring stuff
– blog.oussama-mater.me - submitted by Oussama Mater
Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.me]
Rust for PHP developers
A good introduction to Rust given by Nuno at the PHP UK Conference this year.
Fibonacci Agile Estimation
The Fibonacci sequence is one popular scoring scale for estimating agile story points
Read more [www.productplan.com]
Interface Default Methods: a PHP proposal
Brent explains a nice potential addition to PHP.
Sending a request with HMAC SHA256 signature using Postman
Here's how my colleague Ruben managed to do this in Flare.
Read more [rubenvanassche.com]
Thoughts on event sourcing: Replaying events
I don’t believe in the promise of cheap replays in event sourcing. They come with a cost, but can be very useful for the right problems.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Testing mails in Laravel using Ray
In this post, you'll learn how Ray can help you preview emails in your local environment and how it can simplify the process of developing and testing email workflows in Laravel.
Read more [myray.app]
Build Your Own Template Engine in PHP - Rendering & Echo
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Let's take a look at how you could build your own template engine in PHP.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Introducing laravel-backup-restore
– stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
Do you create automated backups of your database? Are you sure they work? laravel-backup-restore is a new package than can help you verify the integrity of your backups.
Read more [stefanzweifel.dev]
Ray is the best home for your Next.js debugging output
– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Debug logging is difficult in Next.js. In this post, we'll provide a solution to this issue.
Read more [myray.app]
Locality of Behaviour
– htmx.org
Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.
Read more [htmx.org]
Visualising Laravel and Horizon metrics using Prometheus and Grafana original
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.
Use ray()->trace() to figure out where a call came from original
An important problem of a programmer's productivity is finding his way through the code. A good project structure and your IDE can get you a long way, but sometimes it’s not enough.
Read more [myray.app]
Flare 2.0 has been launched! original
These past months, we've been busy redesigning our entire service. We're very proud to launch it today.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Flare and Ignition now offer AI-powered solutions original
Today, we're adding AI-powered solutions to Flare. This means we can suggest a solution for almost any error: the AI will likely suggest a helpful suggestion for most errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Using Laravel queues with other languages
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Utilize the best parts of any language to perform work for your Laravel app! Any language can and push and pull jobs to/from Laravel queues. Here's how.
Read more [fly.io]
