Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
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Migrating to PHPUnit 9
Link – – thephp.cc
Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit, walks us through some history and design decisions for PHPUnit.
Read more [thephp.cc]
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laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released
Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.
Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.
A PHP package to execute commands via SSH
Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.
AWS VPC for Software Engineers
Link – – blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu
This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.
Read more [blog.deleu.dev]
Calculate the Carbon output of your website
Link – – www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent
How is your website impacting the planet?
Read more [www.websitecarbon.com]
Manage Docker containers using PHP
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.
Making password managers play ball with your login form
Link – – hiddedevries.nl
Here's how to let password managers recognise your login form and let you use their features on your fields.
Read more [hiddedevries.nl]
Capturing the World in Software
Link – – blog.jessitron.com
Very nice post by Jessica Joy Kerr on the benefits and tradeoffs of event sourcing.
We can get a complete, consistent model of a small piece of the world using Event Sourcing. This is powerful but expensive.
Read more [blog.jessitron.com]
Introducing Yarn 2
Link – – dev.to
A good overview of new things Yarn has to offer.
Read more [dev.to]
I wrote 1 blog post every day for 2 years. Here's 5 things I learned about SEO
Link – – flaviocopes.com
Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.
Read more [flaviocopes.com]
Enums without enums in PHP
Link – – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.
Read more [stitcher.io]
PHP: Past and Future
Link – – blog.krakjoe.ninja
Joe Watkins compares the execution speed of PHP 4 against PHP 8. It's amazing how far PHP has come.
Read more [blog.krakjoe.ninja]
I hate regex
Link – – ihateregex.io
A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works
Read more [ihateregex.io]
Mailcoach's (lack of) JavaScript stack
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel
Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.
One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.
The Wall of Technical Debt
Link – – verraes.net
Mattias Verraes explains a method for making technical debt visible and negotiable.
Read more [verraes.net]
EventSourcery: a free video course on event sourcing
Link – – eventsourcery.com
A few years ago Shawn McCool recorded a very nice video course on event sourcing. He recently made the entire course free to watch.
Read more [eventsourcery.com]
Building Mailcoach
Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.
Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.
In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.
Laravel Mixins Tips
Link – – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
Some tips when dealing with lots of macros in Laravel, and composing them into mixin classes elegantly.
Read more [liamhammett.com]