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20 years of Bram.us

www.bram.us

Bram has been running his excellent blog for 20 years now. Bram.us was the blog that inspired me to start with a blog of my own.

Highly recommend to check it every once in a while if you're into webdev (which I guess you are since you're reading this on freek.dev).

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A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application original

by Freek Van der Herten – 15 minute read

I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel application.

It offers many checks out of the box, and an easy way to create custom checks. When something is wrong, you can get a notification, or view the status on a dashboard.

The package also offers deep integration with Oh Dear, allowing for even more robust monitoring

I want to tell you all about it in this blog post. Let's go!

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A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.

alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"

With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!

For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.

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