Spatie's Black Friday Deals
Like every year, we have some Black Friday discounts at Spatie. We made fun video about it.
In this section you can read posts I've written myself.
Creating my new album "Kind"
This blog post will be a little different. I'm not going to write about programming as usual. Over the past few months, I have worked on my new album titled "Kind". You can listen to it on these platforms:
In this blog post, I'll share how this album was made from conception to release.
Stay up to date with all things Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript.
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On all these platforms, regularly share programming tips, and what I myself have learned in ongoing projects.
Every month I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer.
Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.
Rest assured that I will only use your email address to send you the newsletter and will not use it for any other purposes.
Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022
Last year at Full Stack Europe we had two great keynotes by two amazing speakers: Jeremy Keith and Kevlin Henney. We're very happy that we can share the recordings with you.
Next month, we'll have a new edition of Full Stack Europe, you can purchase your tickets here. We have an excellent line-up featuring Justin Jackson, Una Kravets, and people that work at companies like Meta, Google, Netlify. If you're familiar with the Laravel community, you'll also probably recognize Kai Sassnowski, Tobias Petry, and a few others! Hope to see you at the conference!
Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML
In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.
To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.
We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage
Original – – flareapp.io
Some fancy tricks are being used to achieve this.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails
Whenever Oh Dear detects something wrong with your site, it can send you a notification. We have multiple channels available: Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and many more. The most popular channel our users use is just simple mail.
Behind the scenes, Oh Dear uses Postmark to send emails. Postmark will inform us whenever a notification mail results in a hard bounce. A hard bounce means that the mail won't be delivered. The most common reason for this is that the mailbox doesn't exist (anymore). This can occur when somebody changes jobs, and the work email address no longer exists.
Watch my Laracon US talk: Enjoying Laravel Data
Here's a recording of my talk that I gave Laracon US in Nashville a week ago.
How to display a subscription confirmation message with CSS
Original – – mailcoach.app
Here's a cool think you can do using the :target selector
Read more [mailcoach.app]
How we use CSS custom properties to customize your newsletter archive
Original – – mailcoach.app
Here's an interesting technique that we use in Mailcoach.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Visualising Laravel and Horizon metrics using Prometheus and Grafana
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-prometheus. Using this package, you can send all sorts of metrics (user counts, subscription counts, queue workloads) around your Laravel to Prometheus and visualize the historical trends using Grafana.
Use ray()->trace() to figure out where a call came from
Original – – myray.app
An important problem of a programmer's productivity is finding his way through the code. A good project structure and your IDE can get you a long way, but sometimes it’s not enough.
Read more [myray.app]
Flare 2.0 has been launched!
Original – – flareapp.io
These past months, we've been busy redesigning our entire service. We're very proud to launch it today.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Flare and Ignition now offer AI-powered solutions
Original – – flareapp.io
Today, we're adding AI-powered solutions to Flare. This means we can suggest a solution for almost any error: the AI will likely suggest a helpful suggestion for most errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
A Laravel package to quickly see which HTML is rendered by which Blade view
I'm happy to share that we have released our latest package, spatie/laravel-blade-comments.
This package can add comments to your rendered HTML output. For each Blade view that was used to build up the response, it adds start and ending comments.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup: Introducing Laravel Splade - Quick Wins in Laravel
Here's the recording of the Laravel Worldwide Meetup which was held last week.
Saying goodbye to WIP commit messages
There are two kinds of developers: those that write commit messages and value a repo's history and those that don't. I'm in the latter camp: most of my commit messages just read "WIP", much to the chagrin of some of my colleagues. I've tried to change my ways, but I just can't get into the habit of writing good commit messages.
But now I have a solution: I use the power of AI to write my commit messages for me. In this blog post, I'll show you how I did it.
Automatically clear Ray when running tests via PHPUnit or Pest
Original – – myray.app
Learn how to automatically clear Ray's screen when running a test
Read more [myray.app]
Laravel Analytics v5 with support for GA4 has been released
We've released a new major version of our Laravel Analytics package. The most important new feature of this release is the support for GA4.
Skipping tests conditionally in Pest
In this blog post, I'd like to show the easiest way to skip tests conditionally in tests. Using the simple technique, which can be used for other things besides skipping tests, you can make your tests much more flexible.
Discovering PHP's first-class callable syntax
When looking at recent changes in the Laravel framework, I saw some PHP syntax that I didn't see before. Because I've been working with PHP for over 20 years and have a firm grasp of the language, I was surprised to see new syntax for the first time.