Streamlining YouTube Integration: Icon Techniques & Best Practices for Optimised Video Loading

– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Adding video to a site is often a great way to increase engagement. However, it's not unusual to start dropping YouTube embeds all over the site then to get a nasty surprise as page load speeds start to suffer! How can we let users know that video is available, and then serve it in a performant, SEO-friendly way?

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Managing production environment variables for Laravel deployments

– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

"Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone" unless managed right in your Laravel deployment! For Flare, we explored alternative solutions to the classic .env files deployed with every Laravel application. We looked at deploying the .env file using Ansible, using config servers, the env:encrypt command, and eventually git-secret, to keep our production environment variables safe and sound.

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