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Learn how to use Laravel Spotlight to supercharge your web application with an easy-to-use command palette that your users will love.

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Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design

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In the second part of this stream, I'll walk you through the inner workings of our new spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable package.

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In the first part of this stream, my colleague Seb explains how spatie/laravel-google-fonts works under the hood.

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Sebastian made a pretty interesting package to self host Google Fonts

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Here are the update stats on PHP usage (Jordi passed the baton to my colleague Brent)

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PHP Contributor Larry Garfield walks us through a couple of neat ideas and RFC's for PHP he's been working on. I would very much welcome a pipe operator in PHP.

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Anna Filina shares how she goes about organizing small functions.

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In this article Lennart Carstens-Behrens explains a very impressive PR he recently submitted at the Laravel repo.

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Sarah Dayan throughouhly explains the differences between utility classes and inline styles

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Here's a nice list of JS niceties that is available natively in modern browsers

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Claudio Dekker runs you through the GitHub action he created to automatically handle code styling issues at Laravel

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There's no shame in stopping a project if it turns out it isn't worthwhile to continue working on it.

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Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.

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Erika Heidi created a nice solution to generate and update cover images on your Twitter account. In this blog post she explains it all.

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Lisi Hocke on the challenges she faced the past few months during the pandemic. At the end of the post, she gives a few list of recommendations you can try to prevent a burn out.

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We talk about cleverness as if it’s Just Bad, such as “clever code is harder to debug”. That’s going too far. Cleverness can lead to faster, safer, even clearer code.

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Alex explains how we use Satis to give users of paid Spatie products access to private repos.

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Matt Stauffer on how to minimize Vue's impact on the Core Web Vitals?

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My colleague Brent shares some thoughts on possible improvements to handling config values.

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