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As I look back over what’s almost a decade in software development, there are some things I wish I’d started doing sooner. This is the advice I’d give my younger self, who has just landed their first professional software development job.

Laser Stack is local Laravel development stack powered by docker like Laravel Sail and multi-project like Valet. Aims to be small and fast. It's opinionated: it does not support everything under the sun but you can customize the container to suit your needs. It supports macOS, WSL2 (Windows) and Linux and it needs docker. Laser has a shell script around docker-compose as an interface to it, it exposes all docker-compose commands and extends it with it's own subcommands and recognizes which project you want to use by the current directory when you call `laser artisan` for example. More on https://github.com/sdbruder/laserstack

After using Laravel Forge for years, it is time to look for something different. I came across Ploi, which offered more features that I wanted to use. But, how did I migrate my servers to Ploi?

This tutorial walks through how to set up your Laravel application to use Zapier to post tweets.

Learn how to deploy your Laravel application without any down-time using Github Actions. This technique works for almost any application (Symfony, WordPress, you name it).

Understand what method overloading truly means in PHP

This post recreates the example from the Laravel documentation that states how Laravel Forge uses atomic locks in its core. It shows the true power of atomic locks as well as job middleware and how to combine it.

This post is about understanding Mass Assignment in Laravel Eloquent ORM.

Make unit testing in PHP simpler again.

A simple Color object for PHP packages and applications.

Mini-tutorial to demonstrate a simple approach on how to use cookies with AlpineJS

Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem (in PHP).

A guide how to optimize webfonts with Glyphhanger by subsetting.

WordPress holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. A GraphQL server can have its own opinionatedness, prioritizing some behavior over another. Can the WordPress philosophy be carried out in GraphQL? If so, how? This article explains how the GraphQL API for WordPress plugin establishes a bridge between the two paradigms.

The Laravel.io Pastebin has been redesigned from scratch using TailwindCSS & UI and features a new Dark mode, improved syntax highlighting and a copy button. The source code is completely open source.

Function as a Service can make building and maintaining applications easier. Unfortunately, Lambda is slow and painful to work with. Faasd is a great alternative explored here.

Here are 5 simple Laravel tips and tricks that you can start applying and using in your Laravel applications right now!

This Article shows how to create a configurable package using configuration hooks

Want to render HTML to PDF using the latest CSS features? In this post I'll show you how to do that with Chrome in Docker and Laravel

The simplest unit testing library for all things PHP.