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I recently quit my job and went self-employed. Here's a breakdown of how it went, and things I'd change

This package allows you to add default sorting column to your eloquent model.

Accessing the web from PHP can done easier. PHPScraper is an opinionated wrapper around some great PHP libraries.

Back in 1785, a Frenchman named Valentin Haüy founded the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris…

Why and how we refactored to Livewire polling and replaced the event-driven WebSockets approach.

I wrote a short bit about the new release for Blade Icons and its new features.

A Twitter megathread with clean code tactics for Laravel.

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to set up a custom Artisan command and how to calculate the execution time of that command.

In this video we discuss seeders, query scopes, and continue to use tdd to drive out some options for filtering our list of entries.

Keeping code organized, readable, and maintainable is tough, and there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Separating your features into dependencies is a good first step for most applications, resulting in cleaner code without the huge complexity cost of a microservice architecture.

Learn how to apply changes to database tables in production

6 improvements on Laravel Nova that you might not be aware about

A blog post about the latest release of the Laravel FFMPEG package.

And common errors you might stumble upon while trying different methods.

Takes a look at using Statamic v3 alongside a Laravel SaaS, how it stands up and how to structure the files so it works a la WordPress.

In this video we'll use eloquent mutators to format some of our properties (and drive out that change with unit tests). We'll also make some changes to our bootstrap UI by adding a dropdown menu.

JSON-RPC 2.0 this is a simple stateless protocol for creating an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) style API. It usually looks as follows:

If you have a PHP or a Laravel based application, there was a time wondering where the users are coming from, and that’s is so important when it comes to marketing.

How modern PHP is managed

In this video we'll revisit the "type" column on our entries, and restrict an entries "type" to a given list of categories.