In a new post David Hemphill argues that you sure can (re)build something that already exists. I fully agree.
Some folks ask this rhetorically, implying there's no good reason when something similar already exists. They ask this question with a smug grin and think they've got you.
Read more [davidhemphill.com]
Mattias Geniar explains all the ways an IP address can be written.
Most of us write our IP addresses the way we've been taught, a long time ago: 127.0.0.1, 10.0.2.1, ... but that gets boring after a while, doesn't it. Luckily, there's a couple of ways to write an IP address, so you can mess with coworkers, clients or use it as a security measure to bypass certain (input) filters.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
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At the Laracon US conference in New York, Taylor Otwell released Laravel Vapor, a new platform for serverless hosting backed by AWS services.
You can watch the presentation below.
In an older but still relevant post, Jeff Atwood shares why you shouldn't use boolean parameters and how this translation to UI.
Read more [blog.codinghorror.com]
Mohammed Said wrote some thoughts on FOMO that resonate with me.
It's a constant pressure on me, and I can imagine how hard it can be on people newly joining the career. In my early days it wasn't that bad, things weren't moving that fast, but nowadays it's crazy.
Read more [themsaid.com]
Scary stuff.
US BlackHat 2018 proved that is possible to obtain RCE from a PHAR package, moreover, by tweaking its binary content, it's possible to disguise it as a full valid image, bypassing security checks.
Read more [www.nc-lp.com]
You can think of algebraic effects as resumeable try catch blocks ?. In a new post on his blog React dev Dan Abramov explains the concept.
Read more [overreacted.io]
Liam Hammett explains how you can use the trap command to stop multiple bash process in one go.
Sometimes when working on a project, I’ll always want to run a handful of commands at the same time, some of which may return when they’re done, others might be long-running, like watchers or services actively exposing ports. This is something that might seem simple to do with a basic Bash script at first, but what if your script has multiple processes running side-by-side and you want to be able to stop them all at once too?
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Christan Stettler wrote an interesting post on why domain events and event sourcing should not be mixed up.
Event sourcing and domain events can of course be used both at the same time, but should not influence each other. The two concepts are used for different purposes and should therefore not be mixed.
Read more [www.innoq.com]
Pro-tip: set custom prefixes for your local, staging and production environments using the Tab ReTitle Chrome extension ?
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) July 15, 2019
Never accidentally debug the wrong tab again! https://t.co/hRfaKesKwL pic.twitter.com/DU1llvdpQd
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Christoph Rumpel wrote an honest lookback at the launch of his book. I takes courage to publish a post like these. Well done!
Exactly 365 days ago, I released my first ebook. I always wanted to share my experiences about it, but I never felt comfortable enough to do so. The project didn't turn out as expected, and I felt embarrassed. It's time to finally reflect it and to overcome my fears.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
? In @laravelphp you can customize validation error messages in a form request ? pic.twitter.com/8XFUeuqFOT
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) July 10, 2019
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? Desktop always a mess? This little script tells macOS to not render desktop icons at all, so ~/Desktop is just another folder and your wallpaper is always unobstructed. pic.twitter.com/GjsmbrZ4c4
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) July 15, 2019
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Earlier this year we released v2 of laravel-event-sourcing. This package is probably the easiest way to getting started with event sourcing in Laravel. A significant feature of v2 was the addition of aggregates.
Today we released another new version of the package that adds test methods. These methods allow you to verify if the aggregate behaves correctly. In this post, I'll show you an example and explain how the test methods are implemented.
These test methods were inspired by the awesome testing methods Frank De Jonge made in his Eventsauce package.
Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent.
It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 tweets, 9 Slack messages, and 4 telegrams. All of which alerting me my SaSS product had sent 3,625 email messages to 1,544 users overnight. I am Jack's cold sweat. ?
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
And if you're a @laravelphp user wondering how you can use this feature, you can easily extend the query builder to support this. ?
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) July 16, 2019
Gist here: https://t.co/Wuavz0v7p9 pic.twitter.com/Vy6NJdJbcx
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The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus. At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don't like the fact that it pulls in a lot of JavaScript to make it work. It's also not the prettiest UI. I've recently replaced Disqus comments with webmentions. If you reply to, like or…
Matthew Rocklin reminds us that sometimes you shouldn't extract code.
However, there is also a cost to this behavior. When a new reader encounters this code, they need to jump between many function definitions in many files. This non-linear reading process requires more mental focus than reading linear code.
Read more [matthewrocklin.com]
Nicolas Beauvais wrote a nice blogpost on how he went about adding support for internationalization to his app.
When working on web applications, translation strings are typically stored in the backend of your app while they’re mostly used in the frontend. This is the main challenge because you need to communicate the translations from your backend to your frontend code.
Read more [nicolas-beauvais.com]
At the Oh Dear blog, my colleague Mattias explains how to use our service to verify that your site is still online after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
