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An ESLint plugin I wrote for linting PHP files. Aims to provide a better linting experience than PHP CodeSniffer.

Read about how you can verify that a URL is a signed URL in your Laravel tests.

Open source CLI tools for developers.

Learn how to reduce your database queries by passing an instance of "Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder" to the "whereIn" method of your queries.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I'll walk you through how to customize your pagination and us the total amount of results even though you're using pagination.

It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull. Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

Learn about how to use asymmetric property visibility (added in PHP 8.4) to define different visibility levels for reading and writing properties in PHP.

In this video, I walk you through how to access your device’s battery status using the Navigator Battery API in JavaScript

Learn how to format monetary values in JavaScript using the "toLocaleString" method and "Intl.NumberFormat" object.

Read about how to use the new `Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\AsUri` cast (added in Laravel 12.17) to cast Laravel model properties to instances of `Illuminate\Support\Uri`.

In this episode, we're reviewing, installing, and testing spatie/laravel-one-time-passwords. A Package by our dear friends from SPATIE, that allows you to send One Time Passwords. The Package also comes with a built-in Livewire Component for us to use all the magic. Or you could use the bits and pieces to craft your own flow.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at the cases function on Enums.

How to configure Horizon to process jobs on a worker server with Ploi.

In this episode we're reviewing, installing and testing burtds/laravel-vatnumber-checker. A Laravel package that interacts with the VIES API, created by Bert De Swaef. (Yes, that's me...)

Tools for the modern developer.

Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.

Enable GitHub Actions to connect to your AWS EC2 instance via SSH

After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.

In this article, we'll explore using Laravel's Context facade to elegantly scope Eloquent relations at runtime. This technique lets you define relationships that are scoped based on contextual information, leading to cleaner, more maintainable code.