Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

We've made another WWSD Video original

Nov 22nd 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

🏎️💨 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%.

Spatie's Black Friday sales have begun original

Nov 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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.

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Laravel and PHP developers to follow on Mastodon original

Nov 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

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.

Spatie WWSD 2022 original

Nov 17th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

We've made a fun video to announce Spatie's Black Friday sales. Have a look!

Queue workers for serverless Laravel applications

Nov 15th 2022 – workerless.run

With Workerless you can configure the maximum concurrency across multiple queues and control the queue prioritization on AWS. This tool and beautiful website was created by Mohamed Said.

Introducing PHP 8.2: all new features and changes original

Nov 15th 2022 by Ruben Van Assche – 9 minute read

PHP 8.2 has been released. It is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.

The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas

Nov 14th 2022 – blog.nateliason.com

Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it.