AWS VPC for Software Engineers
– 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
– www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent
How is your website impacting the planet?
Read more [www.websitecarbon.com]
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Manage Docker containers using PHP original
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
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
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
– 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
Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.
Read more [flaviocopes.com]
Enums without enums in PHP
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.
Read more [stitcher.io]
PHP: Past and Future
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
A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works
Read more [ihateregex.io]
Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel original
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
Mattias Verraes explains a method for making technical debt visible and negotiable.
Read more [verraes.net]
EventSourcery: a free video course on event sourcing
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 original
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
– 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]
The end of cold starts at AWS Lambda
Yan Cui explains a feature called "Provisioned concurrency" that Amazon recently launched
Read more [lumigo.io]
Memoizing stuff in PHP 7.4
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
Read more [twitter.com]
Developing Blocker-Friendly Websites
– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
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!
Read more [tighten.co]
New in PHP 8
My colleague Brent explains everything that's coming in PHP 8. Union types alone will make it a worthwile release.
Read more [stitcher.io]
