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

How to build a simple HTML landing page using Tailwind CSS

Feb 21st 2021 – justinjackson.ca

Justin Jackson created a cool tutorial on how to create a basic landing page.

Flashing Banner Messages in Your Laravel Jetstream and Livewire Applications

Feb 20th 2021 – ryangjchandler.co.uk

Learn how you can use Jetstream's out-of-the-box banner component to show flash messages to your users.

Creating a Ruby Gem for Ray

Feb 11th 2021

Ruby veteran Chris Oliver explained to me the basics of how to create a Ruby Gem (aka a Ruby package) for Ray. After I explained how Ray works internally, he coded up the foundation of the package. You'll find the code in this repo on GitHub.

You can watch our entire live code session here:

Never Good Enough

Feb 11th 2021 – www.kai-sassnowski.com

Yesterday, Matt Stauffer on Twitter was very open on some mental health issues he is coping with. In response Kai shared this older blogpost which resonated with me.

Live coding new Ray features

Feb 11th 2021

In this stream, I live coded a neat little feature for Ray. We're going to create a proxy class to record calls and perform them later.

Determining the start of the next business day in Oh Dear original

Feb 8th 2021 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

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.

PHP-Doc in Blade-Views

Feb 8th 2021 – gummibeer.dev - submitted by Tom Witkowski

How to use PHP-doc tags for better autocompletion in Blade views.

Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet

Feb 8th 2021 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Testing emails can be a pain. Luckily, there are plenty of tools out there that can make the process a lot easier. Let me show you how to setup MailHog, a local development tool for testing emails.

Generate HTTPS URLs when running Laravel behind a proxy

Feb 8th 2021 – michielkempen.com - submitted by Michiel Kempen

What is the TrustProxies middleware and how can it help you generate secure HTTPS URLs, even when running Laravel behind a proxy?

Dealing with failed jobs

Feb 8th 2021 – luisdalmolin.dev - submitted by Luis Dalmolin

Blog post with some practical tips on how to deal with failing and failed jobs.

Cold Starts in AWS Lambda

Feb 8th 2021 – mikhail.io

Mikhail Shilkov explains what cold starts are and discusses some interesting benchmarks.

This article describes AWS Lambda—the dynamically scaled and billed-per-execution compute service. Instances of Lambdas are added and removed dynamically. When a new instance handles its first request, the response time increases, which is called a cold start.

When to add types and when to infer in TypeScript

Feb 8th 2021 – sebastiandedeyne.com

This is how Seb decides when or when not to explicitly add types in TypeScript.

Using composer patches

Feb 3rd 2021 – www.rias.be

When you use software that is open source, you'll sometimes run into issues or small bugs that have already been fixed by the community in a PR or an issue, but have yet to be merged and/or released. If you're impatient and need that fix now, composer patches can be a solution for this problem.

Full-Text Search with MeiliSearch and Laravel Scout

Feb 3rd 2021 – tighten.co

MeiliSearch is a simple self-hosted full-text search solution that's easy to integrate into a Laravel application–their team even maintains a Laravel Scout driver!

Using macros with Blade component attributes

Feb 3rd 2021 – twitter.com

💡 Advanced @laravelphp tip!

If you're using the $attributes variable in a Blade Component, you're using the ComponentAttributeBag class, which is macroable 😏

I wrote a macro to dynamically toggle classes by accepting an array, just like v-bind:class in Vue.js! #Laravel #PHP pic.twitter.com/Uis7hykv20
— Pascal Baljet (@pascalbaljet) February 3, 2021

Route based modals with Laravel, Inertia.js and Vue.js

Feb 3rd 2021 – larsklopstra.nl - submitted by Lars Klopstra

Modals can be a pain in the ass, but there's no way around them. I'm currently working on an application where we need them. Whilst working with Inertia.js and Vue.js we have many options available, let's have a look how I solved this issue.

How to post to Twitter from your Laravel app using Zapier

Feb 3rd 2021 – mattstauffer.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

This tutorial walks through how to set up your Laravel application to use Zapier to post tweets.

Making our Laravel test suite in Oh Dear ready for parallel testing

Feb 1st 2021 – ohdear.app

Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run the Oh Dear testsuite about four times faster.

Display real-time progress of batched jobs using Livewire

Feb 1st 2021 – twitter.com

Using @LaravelLivewire it is incredibly easy to display real-time progress of batched jobs! 🔥

Just drop in this simple trait & blade component and you're off to the races #hottip pic.twitter.com/I6K1zalzeJ
— Willem Leuverink (@gwleuverink) January 18, 2021

What's new in PHP 8.1

Feb 1st 2021 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

PHP 8.1 is currently in active development and will probably be released somewhere around the end of November 2021. We already know some features, changes and deprecations, so let's go through them one by one.