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Yan Cui explains a feature called "Provisioned concurrency" that Amazon recently launched

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Did you know that the null coalescing assignment operator in #PHP 7.4 can be used to make memoizing stuff a little more clean? pic.twitter.com/SWWJEXQBLx

— Brent (@brendt_gd) January 16, 2020

In the age of internet tracking, more users are turning to blocker software for protection. Sara Bin shares some tips to improve your website's UX for these users—and everyone else!

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My colleague Brent explains everything that's coming in PHP 8. Union types alone will make it a worthwile release.

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This article is the result of my 8 years of experience with PhpStorm and my best settings that make you a faster developer and let you focus more on the important things.

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A good overview on how to import stuff in the JavaScript world.

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Mohammed Said wrote a good explanation of what Laravel Airlock brings to the table.

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Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.

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🕵️‍♂️ Just discovered "->optional()" in $faker for my Laravel factories.

Check it out.

Did you already know about this? pic.twitter.com/MrVETY7i3f

— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) January 18, 2020

From time to time I need to remove all history from a GitHub repository, for instance right before releasing a package I've worked on in private. Sometimes I don't want people to see all mistakes I've made along the way :-).

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Bernd Ruecker talks about how determine the right level of consistency in distributed applications.

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Evan You explains the principles behind the changes coming in Vue 3.0

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Julia Evans explains how parties like Facebook can follow you around the web.

In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know what products you’ve looked at online! I’m using Facebook as an example in this blog post just because it’s easy to find websites with Facebook tracking pixels on them but of course almost every internet advertising company does this kind of tracking.

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For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.

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Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.

As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.

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TIL: in @laravelphp blade you can pass data up the main layout you are extending #laravel #php pic.twitter.com/IEWYHv0uyE

— Sidrit Trandafili (@strandafili) 23 december 2019

Emma Bostian demonstrates some lesser known HTML elements.

HTML is a powerful markup language which can be used to give our web applications structure and provide powerful accessibility benefits, but only when used appropriately. Thus, today we’ll discover ten HTML elements you might not have known existed in the hopes that you can create more accessible, and structurally-sound web applications.

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⚗️ One of the most common integrations developers struggle to test is Guzzle. Fortunately, it has a `MockHandler` you can set up to return predefined responses.

Since it uses the existing `Client` and `Response` objects, there's no need to change your implementation. pic.twitter.com/Ui2Zyqj2Lt

— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) 23 december 2019

Sara Soueidan shares valueable insights on the importance of accessibility.

A few years ago I didn’t know what the term “accessibility” meant. I built Web sites that were partially inaccessible because I didn’t know better. Fast forward to today, I know enough to be able to write, speak and run workshops on accessibility, helping others build more a accessible and inclusive Web. Much like everyone else in our field, I am still learning. But since I started, I learned a lot of valuable lessons and core values that drive my work today. Here are a few of them.

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In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API by using pending objects. We'll take a look at how subscribers can be created in Mailcoach. As a bonus I explain how jobs are dispatched using a pending object in Laravel.

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