Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

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Lessons from the last 12 months

Link – Mar 31st 2023 – themsaid.com

An important post by Mohamed Said.

Avoiding one-liners in PHP

Link – Mar 30th 2023 – localheinz.com

Focus on writing code that solves real problems, is well-tested, and is easy to maintain.

The End of Front-End Development

Link – Mar 29th 2023 – www.joshwcomeau.com

Josh Comeau argues that AI won't take away any front end jobs soon.

MySQL for Developers

Link – Mar 28th 2023 – planetscale.com

This is a fantastic course by Aaron Francis. I've already watched most of the videos, and I can tell you it's one of the best courses I ever saw.

Optimising Flare

Link – Mar 27th 2023 – flareapp.io

The laravel-data package is fantastic to work with, but it also adds a lot of complexity when outputting data. In this blog post, we will look at how we've improved the performance of the package and, thus, the complete Flare application.

Concurrent, Chunked, Multi-File Upload with Livewire

Link – Mar 27th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan

We easily upload multi-selected files with Livewire, in three ways: -All files in one request; -Each file in separate, concurrent requests; -and finally, each file in chunks!

Leverage Symfony VarDumper Component to Enhance your Dumps

Link – Mar 24th 2023 – jolicode.com

Let's take a look how we can extend Var Dumper to dump our objects, or some vendor objects, in a more readable way.

Collecting Time Video Metrics with Livewire

Link – Mar 23rd 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan

Easily share user-video interaction data from client to browser with Livewire!

Making the best all-in-one monitoring tool even better

Link – Mar 21st 2023 – digitalwithyou.com

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.

Blazingly Fast Markdown Parsing in PHP using FFI and Rust

Link – Mar 20th 2023 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

In this post, Ryan demonstrates how to use FFI and a lower-level language such as Rust to improve the performance of a critical path.

Make more things the same

Link – Mar 17th 2023

A nice refactor from Aaron Francis

I'm always on the lookout for a good "make more things the same" refactor and I just found one!

Make your life easy, make more things the same. pic.twitter.com/tQfnqSZ84u
— Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) March 8, 2023

Valet 4.0 is released

Link – Mar 16th 2023 – laravel-news.com

Valet is one of my favourite pieces of technology: I don't notice that I'm using it, still I use it every single day.

PHP wishlist: The pipe operator

Link – Mar 15th 2023 – sebastiandedeyne.com

This feature is high on my wishlist.

Discovering PHP's first-class callable syntax

Original – Mar 14th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

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.

Behind The Scenes Of Oh Dear

Link – Mar 13th 2023

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.

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