Posts tagged with best practices
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually not be the best way to achieve the goal they are set out to do.
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We've converted our PHP and Laravel coding guidelines into AI-friendly instructions so Claude Code and other AI agents can generate code that matches our established programming style.
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?
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Some interesting thoughts about caching.
Read more [buttondown.com]
The #[\NoDiscard] is a safety feature for PHP developers, making it easier to catch mistakes where ignoring a function’s return value could lead to bugs.
Read more [www.amitmerchant.com]
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
Read more [davestewart.co.uk]
say: complexity very, very bad
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Git notes are a powerful feature for adding metadata to commits, blobs, and trees.
Read more [tylercipriani.com]
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
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Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
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A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
Read more [benmckay.com]
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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Users don’t know what your product does, how to use it, or why they would use it. You need docs to explain this.
Read more [newsletter.posthog.com]
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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– liamduckett.com - submitted by Liam
A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.
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We've been using this solution in our projects as well.
Read more [darkghosthunter.medium.com]
Naming things is good skill to have for any programmer.
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Beware of "Other"!
Read more [devblogs.microsoft.com]
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to use the Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application. We'll also look at how to prevent your own custom Artisan commands from running using this trait.
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Pseudo-types like callable and iterable may seem convenient at first glance, but they introduce ambiguities and make code harder to analyze.
Read more [f2r.github.io]
