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My recap of the year 2022.

Read about how you can improve your skills as a developer by delving into packages' code and the Laravel framework's code.

You just have to try Rector. Heck, let the tests break, just run it.

These books will help you learn more about PHP in detail and make you a better software engineer overall.

This post discusses accessibility design considerations that will help users with disabilities successfully use and navigate your website or application.

This post discusses three equitable design considerations to avoid creating unintentional barriers and cultural or social biases for potential users.

Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME

A short look at 2022.

Here, we will be looking at one of the hidden features of Laravel. This hidden feature is Responsable Interface. With the help of this interface, we can remove unwanted duplicate code from the controller.

In this video we're having a look at the Query Builder, and how to use it correctly. We're optimizing our performance by a. lot of request time, models loaded and memory used.

Each call to the builder will modify the underlying pending request. Every modification, another link in the chain, that will be sent, finally, with get().

A file manager tool and field for Laravel Nova. Beautifully designed, and customizable, this tool will provide a plug'n'play solution for your file management needs.

Laravel 8 introduced an HTTP Client which is a simple wrapper around the famous PHP Guzzle library. It works great out of the box, but here are some additional statistics that you can get out of every request and response.

This article talks about the benefits and trade-offs between session-based vs token-based authentication approaches. Additionally, it shares some of the best practices you should deploy for authenticating users.

This article describes the stack and setup I use to run integration tests for my WordPress plugin. It is based on Lando + InstaWP (and PHPUnit, Guzzle, WP-CLI, and a few other tools), which allows to run the same tests locally during development (against Lando) and on GitHub Actions just before merging the PR (against InstaWP)

What declarative programming is, and how to include more of it in your PHP code base.

Livewire 2 can have public properties manipulated by the user, but how? Livewire 3 will prevent this... but until then??

In this wvideo we're setting up softDeletes by default in our project by exporting the stub files used to create models and migration files and changing those stubs to our needs.

PHPScraper now supports fetching and parsing of XML sitemaps, RSS-feeds and static search indexes. This helps to aggregate context such as URLs for further crawling. The documentation contains the typical use-cases.