Calculate which days you don't have to work!
We released a mini package called spatie/holidays which helps with calculating the public holidays of a country.
Solving subdomain CORS issues on Laravel Herd
I have been a satisfied Valet user for the past four years, but my recent frustrations with Homebrew have led me to look into Laravel Herd.
A pixel-level image comparison with PHP
A new package release which uses Pixelmatch under the hood.
Publishing this website on Cloudflare
How I finally managed to finish and deploy a personal website instead of letting it end up in the digital graveyard with the others.
Accessing additional validation data in Laravel
Laravel's DataAwareRule interface allows us to access and utilize additional validation data
Semantic Commit Messages
See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.
Preemptive Pluralization
• swyx.io
Before you write any code — ask if you could ever possibly want multiple kinds of the thing you are coding. If yes, just do it. Now, not later.
Give it five minutes
I stumbled upon this great 10-year-old article by Jason Fried on giving someone else's ideas a chance. Think before reacting to keep a creative mindset.
Eloquent: manipulating large chunks of data
Laravel's data retrieval methods: get(), chunk(), and lazy(), compared through informal benchmarks. Understand memory and speed trade-offs.
Lazy Collections in Laravel
Laravel's LazyCollection class is a powerful tool that lets you process enormous amounts of data with very little memory.
Get started with Psalm on a long-living project
Static analysis like Psalm and Phpstan are increasing popularity in the PHP world. It gives us the ability to discover unknown potential bugs in our code without actually running it.