How to upgrade to PHP 8.2 on Mac (and Laravel Valet) original
Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.
If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.
Originals — posts I've written myself.
Sending transactional mail using Mailcoach in a Laravel app original
I'm proud to share that we've released two new packages: spatie/laravel-mailcoach-mailer (for Laravel apps) and spatie/mailcoach-mailer (for all other PHP based apps).
Using these two packages, you can send transactional mail through Mailcoach Cloud.
In this blog post, I'd like to share how you can use these packages and how they work under the hood.
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Using the shadow DOM as a better iframe original
Here's how we use the Shadow DOM to ensure layout from page doesn't affect the layout of a component.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
The making of the WWSD videos original
We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…
We've made another WWSD Video original
🏎️💨 Here's another WWSD video to promote the 50% discount we'll have today on Laravel Comments and Media Library Ppro. All other spatie product are discounted 30%.
Spatie's Black Friday sales have begun original
We made a fun intro video to celebrate our Black Friday sales.
TLDR: All Spatie products are discounted 30% for a week, Mailcoach is discounted 50% only today.
Laravel and PHP developers to follow on Mastodon original
I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn't come to that.
Through years of curating people to follow, I've built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That's why I've already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.
Spatie WWSD 2022 original
We've made a fun video to announce Spatie's Black Friday sales. Have a look!
Introducing PHP 8.2: all new features and changes original
PHP 8.2 has been released. It is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.
Laravel Mailcoach v6 has been released with a new UI and lots of improvements original
We're proud to announce that we have released v6 of the self-hosted version of Mailcoach.
If you have an active license, you'll be happy to know that this is a free upgrade. If you don't have a license, you can purchase it here.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about the new features of this shiny new version.
Introducing the Mailcoach SDKs for PHP and Laravel original
You can now easily consume the Mailcoach API in your app using our SDK.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Automatically restart Horizon when local PHP files change original
We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-horizon-watcher. This one can automatically restart Horizon after any code change.
In this post, I'd like to share why we've built and how you can use it.
🚀 Mailcoach Cloud is now available: affordable email marketing for bloggers, Artisans, and entrepreneurs original
We're proud to announce that Mailcoach Cloud has been launched. Using Mailcoach, you can create beautiful email campaigns, set up drip campaigns (or any email automation), and send transactional emails.
Mailcoach works well, whether your email list has 5 or 500 000 subscribers (yes, Mailcoach has been used for lists of that size), or even more. And thanks to our sharp pricing, Mailcoach is the most affordable solution compared to our competitors in most scenarios.
Privacy-minded people will appreciate that open- and click tracking is off by default. And to people that require full GDPR compliance, we can proudly say that everything is hosted on EU servers owned by EU companies.
If you decide to subscribe, you can use this coupon code for one month free: ONEMONTHFREE. You can help us get the word out, by retweeting our launch tweet, or upvoting us on Product Hunt.
In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've built Mailcoach, how you can use it, and how we have built it.
Let's dig in!
A Laravel package to add flags to Eloquent models original
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-model-flags. This one makes it easy to add flags to any model in your app.
In this post, I'd like to share why we've built it and showcase its usage.
My current setup (end 2022 edition) original
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
Providing faster support using auto-impersonation original
In the SaaS'es I usually work on (Flare, Mailcoach Cloud, Oh Dear), we've recently introduced an improvement to how we handle support. We call it "auto-impersonation".
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Automatically setup your favorite email provider in Mailcoach original
In Mailcoach Cloud and the upcoming v6 of the self-hosted version of Mailcoach, we've made it much simpler to connect an email-sending service to Mailcoach.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Using jobs instead of commands in the schedule of a Laravel app original
In a standard Laravel application, you can schedule Artisan commands in your console kernel. While that works for most projects, we took a different route in Mailcoach. Instead of scheduling commands, we're scheduling jobs.
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Oh Dear 2.0 has been launched original
I'm proud to announce that we have launched a redesigned Oh Dear. If you're unfamiliar with Oh Dear, it's the best all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. You can register for a 10-day free trial.
You can help us spread the good news by upvoting us on Product Hunt, or retweeting our launch tweet.
In this blog post, I'd like to share what Oh Dear can do for you, how we've rebuilt various parts, and give you an overview of the technology behind the service.
My process for writing the freek.dev newsletter original
My team and I are currently working on the hosted version of Mailcoach Cloud, which now is in public beta. Using the Markdown capabilities of Mailcoach and its API, I can easily create new editions of my own newsletter.
Read more [www.mailcoach.app]
