Introducing PHP Operators
Here's a fun little sideproject from my colleague Seb. This web app is built with Laravel, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Content is stored in Markdown files and loaded with our sheets package.
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Livewire and Inertia: how we love and use both at Spatie
If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.
Read more [spatie.be]
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Settling the File Structure Debate
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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Unorthodox decoration
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Everyone knows the classic decorator pattern—but have you met its duck-typed cousin? Discover how to extend Laravel behavior without interfaces, the clever way.
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Think of an Elephpant -
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
Find out how we can champion PHP as a community and help bring it to the attention of more developers
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Type Preferences
– liamduckett.com - submitted by Liam
A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.
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Laravel Observers vs Event Listeners: What’s the Difference?
– bert.gent - submitted by Bert De Swaef
If you’ve been working with Laravel for a little while, you’ve probably come across observers and event listeners. But what is the difference?
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DevOps With Laravel: Queues and Workers in Production
Marin Joo covers configuring Supervisor to manage worker processes, including defining commands, scaling, and logging. He also explores using multiple queues and prioritizing them to optimize worker usage.
Read more [martinjoo.dev]
Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
Impact, agency, and taste
Many of the most effective people I’ve worked with also do the most metacognition, i.e., reflecting on their own (and their team’s) work and thought processes, and figuring out how to improve them.
Read more [www.benkuhn.net]
Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions original
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance.
By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
A default runner on GitHub doesn't have that many cores, so you can't leverage parallel testing as good as in your typical local environments.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you a way of running your tests on GitHub, by splitting them up in small chunks that can run concurrently.
We use this technique at Oh Dear to cut down the running time of our vast testsuite from 16 minutes to only just 4. In this blog post all examples will come from the Oh Dear code base.
Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now: When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas
– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Stripe metadata is great for config, entitlements, and... DNS? This experiment takes one good API feature and stretches it into the worst possible infrastructure layer.
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Implementing Multitenancy in Laravel original
Here's the recording of the talk I did at this years Laracon India. In this talk, I show how we use our laravel-multitenancy package to make Mailcoach tenant aware. Enjoy!
A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel (inspired by Cloudflare)
– aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
Transforming and serving images from Laravel in a cache-friendly way.
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A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
Troy Hunt recently becaming the victim of phising. This proves yet again, that this can happen to anyone, not only non-technical people.
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Goodbye reCAPTCHA, hello Turnstile
We've been using this solution in our projects as well.
Read more [darkghosthunter.medium.com]
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
Michael Lynch, a software blogger, provides examples of his own successful posts and suggests strategies for promoting articles on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit.
Read more [refactoringenglish.com]
Using PHP as a (Terrible) Video Player
Don't use PHP for this. Still fun to do though
Read more [phpmemo.com]
Naming things is suddenly easier
Naming things is good skill to have for any programmer.
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
Real-Time Updates with Client-Side Visits in Inertia 2.0 - No Server Overload!
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Learn how you can update an Inertia.js page in real-time using client-side visits—without overloading your server, even with many users online. Laravel Echo, Laravel Reverb, and a new Inertia v2 feature make it simple and efficient.
Read more [www.youtube.com]