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Leaders, stop being so nice all the time

Link – – m.signalvnoise.com

On Basecamp's Signal v. Noise blog Claire Lew warns about the dangers of wanting to be nice all the time.

Now I’m not advocating for us to be mean. Disrespectful or dismissive leaders help no one. Rather, I’m calling for us as leaders to loosen our grip on “being nice.” To stop wanting our team to like us all the time. To let go of the expectation that every single interaction with our team should feel good. ... When we’re preoccupied with seeming popular instead of fair, when we optimize for pleasant conversations instead of honest ones — we hurt our teams.

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The Everybody Poops Rule

Link – – rosstuck.com

Ross Tuck makes the case that not all code is equal.

Most teams follow the Broken Window Theory, fearing even a single tradeoff starts the slide down a slippery slope. This can reduce discussion (read: dissension) in the short term but leads to arbitrary compliance or worse. ... Deciding on a level of quality isn’t like deciding on a coding standard, you can’t have an off-the-shelf-always-okay answer. Quality is the place to have nuanced discussions.

Read more [rosstuck.com]

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The Laracon US videos have been released

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Laracon US was held in July 2018 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. I had the pleasure of speaking at the conference. You can watch my talk on v7 of our medialibrary below. Though there isn't a playlist to hold them yet, you can view recordings of all other talks on the StreamACon…

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Introducing our Laravel Nova packages

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Introducing our Laravel Nova packages Laravel Nova is a beautiful admin panel that was first showcased at Laracon 2018 by Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. Using Nova building rich admin panels is a breeze. Nova was released today. Taylor was kind enough to give us early access to Nova shortly after…

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Announcing the Full Stack Europe conference

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

The past few months my buddy Dries and I have been preparing a brand new conference called Full Stack Europe. The conference will take place in the city of Antwerp somewhere in spring or early summer of 2019. With the conference, we want to welcome every type of developer, wether you identify…

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Laravel by the numbers

Link – – jason.pureconcepts.net

Laravel Shift is a service that can help upgrade a Laravel app. The creator of the service, Jason McCreary, published some interesting statistics on the Laravel apps that were upgraded by the service.

At the time of this writing, Shift has upgraded over 8,500 Laravel apps. Every time a Shift runs a log file is created. Initially, these log files were for debugging. A way for me to not only offer support, but log events that let me know how I might improve the services.

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Introducing Laravel Nova

Link – – medium.com

At Laracon US 2018 [Taylor Otwell] introduced Laravel Nova, a very shiny admin panel for Laravel applications.

I’m thrilled to announce the newest member of the Laravel ecosystem: Laravel Nova. Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. We’ve sweat the small details and carefully crafted Nova to not only look great, but to be a joy to work with.

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A few notes about the frontend of the renewed spatie.be

Original – by Willem Van Bockstal – 5 minute read

Before we moved in to our new offices in 2014, we quickly set up a temporary one-page website, initially only in Dutch. It lasted for 4 years and bursted out of its frames ever since, because… hmm … no priority, no time. A new site was like a running joke for a long time, until Laracon US 2018…

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A new website for Spatie: backend highlights

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read

For the first time in 4 years we completely redesigned our company website. We launched it today. The site is a simple Laravel app with some technical niceties. True to form we also open sourced the app, you can find the code in this repo on GitHub. In this blogpost I'd like you to give you a tour…

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Take a look into your Laravel views

Link – – github.com

Marcel Pociot, serial open source creator, released another cool Laravel package.

When your Laravel project grows, so do the Laravel views. Sometimes it might be hard to figure out, which part of the output HTML was rendered using which template. With this package, you can take a peek into your Laravel views and find out which template is responsible for which part of the output HTML.

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A new security header: Feature Policy

Link – – scotthelme.co.uk

Scott Helme, creator of both securityheaders.com and report-uri.com introduces a header to enable or disable certain APIs on a webpage.

Feature Policy is being created to allow site owners to enable and disable certain web platform features on their own pages and those they embed. Being able to restrict the features your site can use is really nice but being able to restrict features that sites you embed can use is an even better protection to have.

Read more [scotthelme.co.uk]

Objects should be constructed in one go

Link – – matthiasnoback.nl

In another cool blogpost, Matthias Noback explains a few best practices around newing up objects, illustrated with some great examples.

Consider the following rule: "When you create an object, it should be complete, consistent and valid in one go." It is derived from the more general principle that it should not be possible for an object to exist in an inconsistent state. I think this is a very important rule, one that will gradually lead everyone from the swamps of those dreaded "anemic" domain models. However, the question still remains: what does all of this mean?

Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]