How to Get Better at Customer Interviews
Some good advice by Michele Hansen
Read more [userlist.com]
Critically Engaging With Models
Our worldviews are grown from other people’s models. How do we control what models we let in?
Read more [verraes.net]
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A package to manage dynamic servers original
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-dynamic-servers.
This package can help start and stop servers when you need them. The prime use case is to spin up extra working servers to help you process the workload on queues.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Six New'ish HTML Tags You Can Use Right Now
Jeffrey Way of Laracasts showcases some nice HTML goodness.
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
Some critical thoughts about React. I think the criteria used to determine if React is the right tool, can be used to think critical about your favourite framemework / piece of software.
Read more [joshcollinsworth.com]
Is it a DTO or a Value Object?
Matthias Noback explains the difference.
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
Exploring Laravel Stubs
Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.
I shall define this only once original
Here's my talk on our popular Laravel Data package, which I gave at Laracon Online earlier this week.
Using CLion with php-src
– dev.to
Ben Ramsey explains how can start working on PHP's source code using JetBrains' C IDE.
Read more [dev.to]
Named arguments
My colleage Sebastian digs named arguments in PHP. As do I!
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
How to filter outgoing emails in Laravel
– 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.
Read more [ralphjsmit.com]
Granular interfaces
As a system evolves, abstractions should arise from current needs, not future possibilities.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
The “It's Just Like...” Heuristic
Why feeling that you understand a new idea, is a sign that you didn't.
Read more [verraes.net]
The Forty-Year Programmer
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.
Read more [codefol.io]
A step-debugger for the PHP AST
A cool new tool by Matthias Noback.
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
You might not need `useRef` for that
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?
Read more [flareapp.io]
Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale
– fly.io
Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!
Read more [fly.io]
Sign your Git commits with 1Password
A great way to go about signing git commits.
Read more [blog.1password.com]
Customising Laravel's URL signing key
How to swap Laravel's URL signing key is not documented, but luckily Michael wrote a good post on it!
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Creating installer commands for Laravel packages original
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.
