Talking about Laravel, Oh Dear, and AI
In this interview, I talk about Laravel, application monitoring, and how AI is changing the way developers work.
Oh Dear is now mobile-friendly
Every page in Oh Dear now works on mobile. Not just slapped-on media queries, but reworked layouts: a floating action button for navigation, dedicated mobile card views for monitor lists, scrollable tables with fade hints, and bigger touch targets throughout. Over 160 Blade templates were touched.
Read more [ohdear.app]
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Mattias Geniar on monitoring tools and AI in web development
My Oh Dear co-founder Mattias Geniar was a guest on the WP Legends podcast. They talked about how we built Oh Dear over the past eight years, common misconceptions about monitoring, and how AI is changing developer workflows.
The effects of the Cloudflare outage on Oh Dear
Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Exploring our new PHP SDK, built using Saloon
I've recently rebuilt the SDK for Oh Dear, and thanks to Saloon I had a great time downing so.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production original
Recently, people started talking about a malware called “Androxgh0st” specifically targeting Laravel apps. In a recent edition of Securing Laravel, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote a good explanation of how it works. The malware targets apps with APP_DEBUG set to true. When enabled, Laravel will give…
Read more [ohdear.app]
Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails original
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.
Create a Simple App Status Indicator
Here's how you can use Oh Dear to show the server status of your app right on your landing page.
Read more [blog.helpspace.com]
Making the best all-in-one monitoring tool even better
Our friends at Digital With You wrote a detailed case study on how they helped us redesign @OhDearApp They cover rewriting marketing text, choosing new colours, redesigning all pages.
Read more [digitalwithyou.com]
Behind The Scenes Of Oh Dear
In this sponsored talk given at Laracon India 2023, I demo all major Oh Dear features. After that, I share how the Laravel app behind Oh Dear is structured using domains.
The audio quality is not perfect, but it should still be understandable.
Lighthouse SEO monitoring is now available at Oh Dear
I'm very proud that we have added a new check to Oh Dear.
Read more [ohdear.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.
A preview of Oh Dear's upcoming redesign
One of our goals for this year is to bring the UI of Oh Dear to the next level. Behind the scenes, our team is working hard on a complete rewrite of our marketing website and app.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Implementing the design
Here's a new blog post by our designer Nick on how he's revamping the looks of Oh Dear.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Project setup
We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.
Read more [ohdear.app]
How we improved Oh Dear in 2021
Here's a recap of everything we did in 2021 to make Oh Dear the best all-in-one monitoring service.
Read more [ohdear.app]
You can now monitor your DNS records via Oh Dear
The past few weeks, I had a lot of fun coding up the new DNS check of Oh Dear. In this blogpost, you'll learn why you should monitor your DNS records and how Oh Dear makes this very easy.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Determining the start of the next business day in Oh Dear original
When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day).
In the evenings and weekends, our users might not want to receive repeated notifications. That's why we've added a nice human touch: all notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday.
In this blog post, I'd like to share some of the code that powers this feature. We'll focus on how the start of the next workday is calculated.
Why and how you should monitor scheduled tasks original
Oh Dear is the monitoring SaaS that my buddy Mattias and I are running. As you might suspect, our service can monitor the uptime of sites and SSL certificates' health. What sets Oh Dear apart from the competition is that it can also monitor performance and detect broken links and mixed content on any of the pages of your site.
Today, we added a new type of monitoring: scheduled tasks monitoring. Oh Dear can now notify you whenever one of your scheduled tasks has not run or is running too late.
You can get started monitoring your schedule today. We have a free ten-day trial. And when using this coupon code, you'll get 30% off on the first three months when subscribing: MONITOR-ALL-THE-THINGS.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce how you can use scheduled task monitoring in Oh Dear, and how it works under the hood. There were a lot of interesting challenges we had to solve. I hope you're ready to dig it.
How are users finding our SaaS?
After more than 2 years of building Oh Dear, I still struggle with the most fundamental question: how are users finding our application and where should we focus our marketing efforts to maximize that?
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
