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Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it’s certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you’re an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming.

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Misconceptions about HTTP caching for APIs abound. Here is a little thread that covers a bunch of them.
1. "Caching API responses is WRONG, using caching for performance is a crutch and the endpoint should just be fast.

— Crashy McCiderface (@philsturgeon) October 10, 2018

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In a new post on his blog Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant explains the Integration Operation Segregation Principle, which is programmerspeak for splitting your code into nice little testable bits.

As you can see the Integration Operation Segregation Principle is just a long and complicated term to describe something very simple. This all might seem like a lot of work, but it’s worth it. Your code and especially your tests will thank you later

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Marcel Pociot recently created a Nova tool for Honeybadger. On their blog Marcel gives some interesting details on how it was created.

In the last weeks, I've been working with the team from Honeybadger on a custom resource tool to add Honeybadger error tracking output to Laravel Nova. It's a great addition to Nova and allows the developer to easily get access to error tracking information that, for example, is associated with specific users.

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It's perfectly fine if your controller doesn't extend anything#php #laravel pic.twitter.com/GVLYNDhvWE

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 27 september 2018

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Patrick Brouwers is doing an awesome job creating a quality Laravel package to integrate with Excel. The newest version can import Excel files.

Laravel Excel 3.0 was released a while ago and completely redesigned the architecture behind exports. Our next target was to do the same paradigm shift for imports. Development took some time, because we wanted to get it right from the start.

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In a new post on her blog Jessica Mauerhan has some good examples on the various types of test doubles.

Did you know that a Mock is only one type of a test double? Most of us use the word “mock” to mean any kind of test double, but there’s actually five different types. It really can help you understand what you’re trying to accomplish with your test if you know a little bit more what you’re doing with your test doubles, so this article will explain the kinds of test doubles, when you use them, how you use them and why.

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In a new blogpost, Evan You, the creator of Vue, outlines the changes and new features coming to the next major release of Vue.

There are greatly improved tools that could enhance our workflow, and many new language features that could unlock simpler, more complete, and more efficient solutions to the problems Vue is trying to solve. What’s more exciting is that we are seeing ES2015 support becoming a baseline for all major evergreen browsers. Vue 3.0 aims to leverage these new language features to make Vue core smaller, faster, and more powerful.

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Developers can now instruct browsers to control whether cookies are sent along with the request initiated by third party websites - by using the SameSite cookie attribute, which is a more practical solution than denying the sending of cookies.

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? #LaravelTip You can override the validationData method on your custom FormRequest class if you need to modify the request data _before_ it's validated against. #laravel pic.twitter.com/GoVw93sSrD

— Glenn Kimble Jr (@GlennKimbleJr) September 8, 2018

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Jake Bathman, developer at Tigthen Co, wrote a new blogpost explaining what Laravel's APP_KEY environment variable is used for.

In this post, we'll talk about what APP_KEY does and doesn't do, some common misconceptions about its relationship to user password hashing, and the simple steps to changing your APP_KEY safely without losing access to your data.

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Now that Laravel Nova can be installed via composer, we can run tests for Nova packages and projects on Travis CI. My friend Marcel Pociot explains how.

This is great news, as this does not only simplify updating Laravel Nova, but it also allows Nova tools/package developers to add continuous integration to their projects! But there is still a problem: we do not want to provide our Laravel Nova credentials in our open source repository. But how can we solve this?

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In an older but still relevant blogpost, Ondřej Mirtes, the author of PHPStan, explains the difference between union types and intersection types.

One of the headlining features of PHPStan 0.9 is the introduction of intersection types. Since this is a very useful feature that helps us understand the code much better, but the terminology is largely unknown and mysterious to the PHP community, I decided to write up and compare these two kinds of compound types.

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? Writing that extra line that just has a return statement to return an object in my Vue component's data() method feels really bad every time.

(Not to mention that data() is a method, not just an object ?)

So I found a way to trim 2 lines using arrow functions ? pic.twitter.com/Qmlil4mqHD

— wetbread (@DCoulbourne) September 20, 2018

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Nikola Poša did some light research on what features PHP developers are craving for to be added in PHP 8. Seems like I'm not the only one that wants arrow functions and generics.

It's been over two months since I started a research on Twitter about the things that developers would like to be added or improved in the next major PHP release. It had a surprisingly long reach, inspiring developers, prominent experts, community representatives to express their opinion through more than a hundred responses.

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Limiting breeds creativity.

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#Laravel tip of the day: in Eloquent Query Builder, you can specify "as" to return any column with a different name, just like in plain SQL query. pic.twitter.com/r7xGm50lDL

— Povilas@LaravelDaily (@DailyLaravel) September 25, 2018

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In a new blogpost Troy Hunt explains why you shouldn't bother buying an EV certificate anymore.

That's it - I'm calling it - extended validation certificates are dead. Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), but their usefulness has now descended from "barely there" to "as good as non-existent". This change has come via a combination of factors including increasing use of mobile devices, removal of the EV visual indicator by browser vendors and as of today, removal from Safari on iOS

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