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? Four years of murze.be ?

4 years ago I started this blog as a tool to share interesting blogposts I found around the web. On each anniversary of my blog I published some interesting stats on the blog. This year is no different.

Between November 2017 and november 2018 this blog served 728 243 pages, a good increase compared to the 591 113 pageview from the previous period. There are 1 217 published posts, of which 195 I've written myself. The others ones are links to other blogs.

Last year in November I moved this blog from WordPress to a custom made Laravel app. A few months ago I removed the handcrafted admin section in favor of Laravel Nova. I'm really glad that I now have full control over my blog and not tied to WordPress anymore. I also opensourced the Laravel app. You can find the source code in this repo on GitHub.

These were the ten most visited posts of the past 12 months:

  1. My current setup (2018 edition)
  2. How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS
  3. Introducing our Nova packages
  4. Handling CORS in a Laravel application
  5. laravel-medialibrary v7 has been released
  6. Breaking Laravel's firstOrCreate using race conditions
  7. When empty is not empty
  8. Doing less
  9. A better way to register routes in Laravel
  10. Using Content Security Policy headers in a Laravel app

I do hope you still enjoy reading this blog!

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murze.be turns three original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Three years ago I started this blog to share my bookmarks and interesting links with fellow developers. Like on the previous anniversaries I'd like to share some cool statistics from the past 12 months. For the period spanning from end november 2016 until end november 2017 my little blog served 591…

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murze.be is two years old original

by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I'm happy to share that this blog now celebrates its second anniversary. Two years ago I started murze.be to share my bookmarks and interesting links I found with other developers. Along the way I started to write some articles of my own, mainly introductory posts to the now 100+ packages my team…

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This blog is one year old original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Exactly one year ago the very first post on murze.be was published. This blog was mainly started as a way to bookmark interesting links. Along the way I shared programming tips, talked a bit about learning and gave some background on the Spatie packages. It's been a fun ride and looking at the…

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