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Remy Sharp, a well known JavaScript developer, published a cool list of standard CLI tools replacements.

I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.

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Surprised no one knew about that, but did you know you can do this? pic.twitter.com/OfJ7udnHFe

— Mohamed Said? (@themsaid) 15 augustus 2018

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I thought everyone knew/did this but was told it was a pretty ?tip by @calebporzio.

So behold! Cleaner #vuejs binding events on <a> tags!#hottip pic.twitter.com/Q0Hd4VoY5M

— Jack McDade (@jackmcdade) 29 augustus 2018

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The people at Kinsta published a nice overview of all changes coming to PHP 7.3 which will be released in December.

In this post, we’ll provide an overview of the features and changes that we personally consider most relevant. But you can always check the full list of features, changes and bug fixes in PHP 7.3 upgrade notes and PHP 7.3 Requests For Comments.

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Nick Basile, UX instructor at Lambda school, write a good practical tutorial on creating custom Nova actions.

In my last post, we started building a simple CRM using Laravel Nova. It was pretty complete when we left it, but I think we can add a few more features and explore the rest of what Nova has to offer. In this walkthrough, we'll take a look at how to use Nova's Actions and authorization.

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Dads in Dev is a podcast run by Andrew Del Prete and Nova co-creator David Hemphill. Their latest episode contains some interesting tidbits on the creation of Laravel Nova: where the idea came from, how it was developped, how it's different from other admin panels, some thoughts on the early access...

http://www.dadsindev.com/54a0a0c1

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My colleague Brent explains how you can easily work with MySQL views in Laravel.

MySQL views are a way of storing queries on the database level, and producing virtual tables with them. In this post we'll look at why you want to use them and how they can be integrated in Laravel with Eloquent models.

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Here's another awesome blogpost by my collegue Seb. In this one he explains why you should and how you can create an explicit Vue component API.

When refactoring your UI to components, always keep in mind that props and events are your components public API. Just like when you're modelling your application's domain, try to keep things explicit. Props and events should be enough to tell the outside world everything it needs to know about a component's behavior.

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Here are some good reasons why you shouldn't use a first name and last name field.

The structure of a name is not the same across cultures. Users who visit your site will consist of a broad range of people from different countries. Your name field should be culturally inclusive so that no one struggles to fill out your form. With most things in life two is better than one. But when it comes to name fields one is better than two.

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On Basecamp's Signal v. Noise blog Claire Lew warns about the dangers of wanting to be nice all the time.

Now I’m not advocating for us to be mean. Disrespectful or dismissive leaders help no one. Rather, I’m calling for us as leaders to loosen our grip on “being nice.” To stop wanting our team to like us all the time. To let go of the expectation that every single interaction with our team should feel good. ... When we’re preoccupied with seeming popular instead of fair, when we optimize for pleasant conversations instead of honest ones — we hurt our teams.

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Ross Tuck makes the case that not all code is equal.

Most teams follow the Broken Window Theory, fearing even a single tradeoff starts the slide down a slippery slope. This can reduce discussion (read: dissension) in the short term but leads to arbitrary compliance or worse. ... Deciding on a level of quality isn’t like deciding on a coding standard, you can’t have an off-the-shelf-always-okay answer. Quality is the place to have nuanced discussions.

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How about this? pic.twitter.com/JkKVBgfOtZ

— Dave Yoakum (@dawiyo) 1 August 2018

You can even write it shorter as User::latest()->value('name');

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Till Krüss released a cool Alfred workflow to easily search the docs. Here it is in action.

Behind the scenes it uses an Algolia index to retrieve the results. I've been only using it for a day and I can't image how I could have lived without this so long.

https://github.com/tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs

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Laravel Shift is a service that can help upgrade a Laravel app. The creator of the service, Jason McCreary, published some interesting statistics on the Laravel apps that were upgraded by the service.

At the time of this writing, Shift has upgraded over 8,500 Laravel apps. Every time a Shift runs a log file is created. Initially, these log files were for debugging. A way for me to not only offer support, but log events that let me know how I might improve the services.

Read more [jason.pureconcepts.net]

At Laracon US 2018 [Taylor Otwell] introduced Laravel Nova, a very shiny admin panel for Laravel applications.

I’m thrilled to announce the newest member of the Laravel ecosystem: Laravel Nova. Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. We’ve sweat the small details and carefully crafted Nova to not only look great, but to be a joy to work with.

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In season 3 of the Laravel podcast Matt Stauffer interviews people in the Laravel community. I had the pleasure of being the guest on the latest episode.

You can listen to the entire thing here: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/db8ee53b

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Following is a list of the world's top 100 websites by Alexa rank not automatically redirecting insecure requests to secure ones. You'll then find the top 50 sites by country underneath that. The data is driven by Scott Helme's nightly crawl and is explained in detail in the launch blog post for this project.

https://whynohttps.com/

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