What happens when you update your DNS?
Link – – jvns.ca
Julia Evans wrote a quick exploration of what’s happening behind the scenes when you update a DNS record.
Read more [jvns.ca]
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How to Patch a Package in Vendor, Yet Allow its Updates
Link – – tomasvotruba.com
Tomas Votruba explains how you can create composer patches.
Read more [tomasvotruba.com]
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Why AnyList Won’t Be Supporting Sign In with Apple
Link – – blog.anylist.com
AnyList explains in great detail why they made this decision.
Read more [blog.anylist.com]
Braille, and the evolution of software development
Link – – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
There are one or two parallels with the history of braille that Brent thinks we can learn valuable lessons from.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Hands-on with Portals: seamless navigation on the Web
Link – – web.dev
Wouldn't it be nice if users wouldn't see a blank screen when navigation to another URL? Portals allow you to preload the next page and transition to it with a nice animation.
Read more [web.dev]
Announcing the Laravel Worldwide Meetup
I'm happy to announce the official Laravel Worldwide Meetup. This monthly meetup will be streamed via YouTube. The first edition will be held on 14th July at 18:00 UTC.
There is a select group of people, sometimes jokingly referred to as "The Elite" that you often see speaking at Laracons and other events. Even though you will probably see some of these fine artisans on the stream, the main goal of this meetup is to introduce new speakers to the community.
Refactoring to Livewire polling
Link – – johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun
John Braun shares why and how he refactored to Livewire polling and replaced the event-driven WebSockets approach.
Read more [johnbraun.blog]
Abstract resources in Laravel Nova
Link – – stitcher.io
Bruno Falcao explains a nice strategy when creating resources in Nova
Read more [stitcher.io]
Enable early access Metal support for JetBrains IDEs
Link – – alexvanderbist.com
Project Lanai is a joint effort between JetBrains and Oracle that looks to solve performance problems by utilizing Apple's Metal API for rendering the application instead of OpenGL. My colleague Alex tried using it in PhpStorm
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Ordering database queries by relationship columns in Laravel
Link – – reinink.ca
Jonathan Reinink published another excellent blogpost on db performance.
Read more [reinink.ca]
25 Years Of PHP
Link – – www.jetbrains.com
To celebrate PHP's 25th birthday, JetBrains published a nice timeline that shows PHP's rich history.
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
Time to upgrade your monitor
Link – – tonsky.me
Nikita Prokopov shares some good insights on why having a good monitor is important. MacOS users: your fonts will look much better with font smoothing turned off.
Read more [tonsky.me]
How We Work (at Tailwind)
Link – – public.3.basecamp.com
Adam Wathan recently started hiring the first employees of his brand new company. On Basecamp he shared how they work.
Read more [public.3.basecamp.com]
Meetup time: discovering Laravel Workbench and Exploring Pest 0.2
Last week I held an online meetup. My two guests were JMac and Nuno Maduro. 00:00 Welcome 02:00 Exploring Laravel Workbench (JMac) 30:00 Introducing Pest 0.2 (Nuno Maduro) Show links Laravel Shift: https://laravelshift.com Pest: https://pestphp.com
Find your match with regex
At Full Stack Europe 2019 my colleague Alex gave an amazing talk on regex.
Debugbar vs Telescope Toolbar
Link – – barryvdh.nl
Barry Vd. Heuvel, the creator of Laravel Debugbar, compares Debugbar against Telescope.
Read more [barryvdh.nl]
Don't write your own framework
Link – – stitcher.io
My colleague Brent shares a story to illustrate why you shouldn't write your own framework.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Adding try/catch to Laravel collections
A few weeks ago, Jmac tweeted out an excellent idea. What if we could use try and catch in a collection chain?
Collections are the jam. Yet they leave me dreaming of more.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) June 1, 2020
Take this block that performs some custom validation logic by leveraging a value object constructor.
Collections definitely streamline it, but what if I could also chain the exception handling… 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4jj0uFgwWb
Meanwhile, Jmac and I did a few code pairing sessions to work on a possible implementation. We've added try and catch methods to the laravel-collection-macros package.
In this blog post, I'd like to share what you can do with these methods and how they work under the hood.
Introducing Blade UI Kit
Dries Vints was a guest on my stream. He shared his newest project, called Blade UI Kit.
Avoid false positives by utilising magic values in your tests
Link – – timacdonald.me
It can be very hard to spot a false positive within a test. So how do you avoid them?
Read more [timacdonald.me]