Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent.
It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 …
The comment section of this blog used to be powered by Disqus . At its core, Disqus works pretty well. But I don't like the fact that it pulls in a lot of …
Matthew Rocklin reminds us that sometimes you shouldn't extract code.
However, there is also a cost to this behavior. When a new reader encounters this …
Nicolas Beauvais wrote a nice blogpost on how he went about adding support for internationalization to his app.
When working on web applications, translati…
At the Oh Dear blog, my colleague Mattias explains how to use our service to verify that your site is still online after a deploy.
You can use our API to …
Jason McCreary wrote an epic blogpost on how to get started with tests in a Laravel app. I wish I could have read this when I started out with testing.
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A few weeks ago, my colleague Seb added webmentions to his blog.
I first noticed webmentions in the wild on Hidde de Vries’ blog about two years ago. Last …
Our team releases a lot of open source packages . All of our packages are well documented. For the smaller packages, we use a simple readme on GitHub. The …
Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer based in Sydney, investigates how to make Laravel tests run faster. Turns out you a lot can be gained by caching …
A nice little tip to clean up your code base from boolean flags (is_active, is_deleted, is_subscribed) is to switch to nullable timestamps instead. You remain …
Simon Kollross explains how to use our laravel-backup package to create an encrypted backup of your Laravel based app.
You should always encrypt backups of …
A nice insight by Basecamp engineer Jonas Downey.
Whatever ownership you have over an individual contribution is immediately forfeited the moment you …
In a new blogpost, my colleague Seb explains why you should and how you can use useEffect .
React recently introduced a new way to deal with side effects: …
Jordi Boggiano published a new round up of stats.
The push towards PHP 7.1 and 7.2 happened even faster than in the previous six months. The most required …
