A Week of Symfony #646 (13-19 May 2019)
This week Symfony continued polishing the upcoming Symfony 4.3 version with the addition of a cache to improve PropertyInfo performance . In addition, the …
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How I got AWS running inside Netlify
In a recent attempt to move away from Google analytics I wanted to be able to run the AWS command line tool from inside of Netlify's build process. Except it turns out it wasn't so easy to get AWS's environment variables in Netlify because Netlify have some undocumented reserved environment variables: …
We’re hiring a Director of Operations
Basecamp is hiring a director of operations to run the team responsible for all our technical infrastructure. Our suite of applications is served from a mix of …
Newcrafts 2019 Day 1
This week I attended and spoke at the Newcrafts conference in Paris. The following is a mix of notes and personal observations I wanted to share, centered around some of the talks I saw there. Romeu Romera: Bourdieu's Social theory and our work in tech I had never attended a talk by Romeu before. I really …
Add API Keys to Your Laravel Models with Laravel Keyable
Laravel Keyable is a package by Liran Cohen that enables you to add API keys to any model and associate incoming requests with their respective model. …
CSS Scan: The Fastest Way to Inspect and Copy CSS
CSS Scan is a super cool tool I've just learned about from Chris Nwamba . It allows you to inspect and copy CSS. It's definitely the fastest way I've …
React Starter: Adding Sass to Create React App Applications
Adding Sass is one of the first things most developers do when starting an application. Writing in plain CSS can be done, but Sass provides much more power …
Storing Jobs in the Database
If you don't have much control over the environment your application runs in, you might consider using the database queue connection. With this approach, …
PHP in 2019
In an awesome post, my colleague Brent explains that PHP is in a very good state nowadays. If you dismissed the language previously, now is a good time to take …
Making Laravel Scout Imports 64x Faster
Matt Allan explains why using an offset is slow when used on large datasets. It turns out it’s easy to page through results without using offset. All we …
Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems
On his blog, Mathias Verraes started a series of posts on patterns for decoupling in distributed systems. I'll link to just one of the posts here, but they're …
What is a binary tree and why would I ever want to reverse it
Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant helps you to answer this horrible interview question. You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews …
Introducting the Tappable trait to use 'tap' with any class
Recently Laravel introduced a Tappable trait. This blogpost explains what this trait allows you to do. As you might know, the Laravel framework comes …
New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking
Posted by Kurt Thomas and Angelika Moscicki Every day, we protect users from hundreds of thousands of account hijacking attempts. Most attacks stem from …
New in Symfony 4.3: Native password encoder
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #31140 and #31170 . Hashing passwords is one of the most critical parts of a good …
Join Fabien Potencier at Amsterdam PHP meetup on June 20th
We’re super excited to announce that Fabien Potencier , Symfony founder, will speak at Amsterdam PHP meetup on June 20th about “Developing Symfony …
A letter from a reader
Whenever we write a book, we include our email at the end so people can reach out and share their stories. With their permission, I’d like to share an email we …
PHP Insights
PHP Insights is the perfect starting point to analyze the code quality of your PHP projects. Carefully crafted to simplify the analysis of your code directly …
Google Fonts Now Supports font-display!
font-display is a CSS feature that allows us to control how we load fonts . Google Fonts are used by many websites (including Scotch.io) and up until now, …
Bash/Shell Autocompletion for Composer
The other day I opened up a PHP project that I hadn’t worked on in a while. No longer remembering which Composer Scripts I had defined for it, I needed to take a peek inside composer.json to see which ones were available to me. Then it hit me: why is there no autocompletion for composer available? Googling …