– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
This post discusses three equitable design considerations to avoid creating unintentional barriers and cultural or social biases for potential users.
Read more [tighten.com]
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
This post discusses accessibility design considerations that will help users with disabilities successfully use and navigate your website or application.
Read more [tighten.com]
Join 9,500+ smart developers
Get my monthly newsletter with what I learn from running Spatie, building Oh Dear, and maintaining 300+ open source packages. Practical takes on Laravel, PHP, and AI that you can actually use.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. You can also follow me on X.
"Freek’s newsletter is one of the best ways to stay updated with the Laravel and PHP ecosystem. It consistently highlights useful packages, tools, and ideas from the community, especially the amazing work coming from Spatie. As a Laravel developer building SaaS and web platforms, I find it extremely helpful to discover practical tools and insights that improve my development workflow."
Livewire is an amazing piece of technology. It is extensively used in two products I work on: Oh Dear and Mailcoach Cloud.
In this post, I'd like to show you a simple technique where Livewire can help to improve your initial page load time significantly.
Google Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.
Our newest package, spatie/lighthouse-php makes it easy to run Lighthouse using PHP. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
– rias.be
A pretty cool use case for Laravel Envoy.
Read more [rias.be]
Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.
If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this video we're having a look at the Query Builder, and how to use it correctly.
We're optimizing our performance by a. lot of request time, models loaded and memory used.
Read more [youtu.be]
I'm proud to share that we've released two new packages: spatie/laravel-mailcoach-mailer (for Laravel apps) and spatie/mailcoach-mailer (for all other PHP based apps).
Using these two packages, you can send transactional mail through Mailcoach Cloud.
In this blog post, I'd like to share how you can use these packages and how they work under the hood.
– www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman
Each call to the builder will modify the underlying pending request. Every modification, another link in the chain, that will be sent, finally, with get().
Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]
I use all of these on freek.dev as well :-)
Read more [dominik-geimer.com]
Here's how we use the Shadow DOM to ensure layout from page doesn't affect the layout of a component.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
– youtu.be - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun
What declarative programming is, and how to include more of it in your PHP code base.
Read more [youtu.be]
Tim MacDonald wrote a nice post on how to handle duplicate requests.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Fascinating read by Aaron Francis on how he used Netlify to generate dynamic OG images.
Read more [www.netlify.com]
– fhur.me
A good tip by Fernando Hurtado
Read more [fhur.me]
We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…
🏎️💨 Here's another WWSD video to promote the 50% discount we'll have today on Laravel Comments and Media Library Ppro. All other spatie product are discounted 30%.
We made a fun intro video to celebrate our Black Friday sales.
TLDR: All Spatie products are discounted 30% for a week, Mailcoach is discounted 50% only today.
I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn't come to that.
Through years of curating people to follow, I've built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That's why I've already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.
