★ Easily switch PHP versions in Laravel Valet
Besides enjoying some greenfield work, we often have to work on legacy projects at Spatie too. Sometimes those projects don't run on the latest PHP version. …
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Web Design Weekly #336
Headlines Start Performance Budgeting If you’re building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical. For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live within them. (addyosmani.com) Hard Costs of Third-Party Scripts Dave Rupert shares some thoughts around the User …
My Laracon EU Conference Chatbot Recap
On the 12th of July this year, I released my first ebook/video-course called Build Chatbots with PHP . In the last chapter, you can follow me as I create a chatbot for a real client: The Laracon EU conference chatbot. A chatbot that was made to provide information about the Laracon EU conference on Facebook and …
Forge AWS VPC / Subnet Improvements
Beginning today, Forge now allows you to select the subnet that AWS servers should be place in when provisioning. This feature gives you more control over the network configuration of your Forge AWS servers. Previously, all AWS servers were placed in a “Laravel Forge” VPC with a default subnet that was configurable: …
Larastan: Discover Bugs in Your Code Before Running It
Larastan is a static analysis tool by Nuno Maduro built on top of PHPStan and focuses on finding errors in your Laravel code before running it. …
Significantly faster generation and training for AI-based audio systems
WHAT THE RESEARCH IS: A neural audio synthesizer that generates musical notes based on specific instrument, pitch, velocity (the force with which a note is played), and other inputs. Human evaluators assessed whether the notes the Symbol-to-Instrument Neural Generator (SING) creates seem natural — as if they were …
Early voting
It’s election season again, time to do our civic duty and vote for politicians that will work for us and carry our voice. It sure doesn’t feel that way anymore, hyperbole aside I always dread voting because of the long lines and it taking forever. The past two elections I’ve started early voting and it’s been so …
Create New Project Tasks
To add new tasks to our project page, we'll need to construct another form. This will give us the chance to once again discuss URI naming conventions, as well …
How NOT to Review a Pull Request
Examine the diff and comment on it, a line at a time That's not very constructive, Lorna. Do you have a bit more advice for us? Since you asked so nicely, yes I do! How to Review a Pull Request First, read the description. If there isn't one, close the pull request. You might need to go looking for an …
Host your own content
On a typical day when I see a link to an article with Medium in the URL, I tend to skip it and think the reason for this is subconsciously I don’t like how hostile Medium has been. A great example is this morning. I was checking my Twitter stream and seen someone I respect share a link to a Medium article. I read …
Maybe This Book Isn't For You
(Author note -- I am trying to do more blogging and less long Twitter threads.) Recently I had a very respectful conversation with someone who bought one of my books (The PHPUnit Cookbook ) and is not happy with the book. They have pointed out the things they don't like and believe are wrong, and finished off one …
Use the React Profiler for Performance
With React , building high performance web applications became very easy because of the framework's re-rendering on the JavaScript virtual DOM, which helps it …
★ Searching models using a where like query in Laravel
For a project I'm working on I needed to build a lightweight, pragmatic search. In this blogpost I'd like to go over my solution. Searching Eloquent models …
PHP, FPM, and Nginx
PHP We can see we have php 7.0 available out of the box: sudo apt-cache show php-cli Instead of using that, we'll start by installing the latest PHP 7.1, via the populate PHP repository. # Add repository and update local cache of available packages sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get …
Nginx
We'll see how to install Nginx from the official Nginx repository for Ubuntu servers.
PHP App Setup & Permissions
Composer First we installed Composer so we can get PHP dependencies: # Become user root sudo su # Pipe the composer installer to php, and pass the installer some flags curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer GitHub Next, we want to get a …
A Week of Symfony #616 (15-21 October 2018)
This week, Symfony 4.2 deprecated the kernel name and the usage of getRootDir() and kernel.root_dir . Meanwhile, the Form component added a new help_attr …
★ My current setup (2018 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor , font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions …
Time-Lapse of Creating the Laravel Newsletter
As I sat down to start to start working on this week issue of the Laravel newsletter I had the thought, this could be cool as a time-lapse, so I set up my phone on a little tripod, hit record, and went to work. After I finished I imported into iMovie added some free music I found online and pushed it to YouTube. …
1Password for 2FA
The common security precaution is to never reuse the same password and the only sane way you can do that is by utilizing a password manager. There are few different companies making these and even Apple has one integrated, and I recommend you use one of these. Especially with how prevalent hacks are nowadays. My …