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You can just do things like write actual, 100% home grown, hand rolled, no soy, artisinally-crafted SQL instead of using the Query Builder/Eloquent in Laravel. Sometines you have to, but when it really shines is when it is more efficient.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Ever go back to a branch, forget to rebase, and go into cardiac arrest when you think a major feature suddenly disappeared? Me neither.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

End of an era. After ~10 years of Homestead, I've moved to @ddev.bsky.social for development. I finally gave in to the weight of my test suite. Went from 5 minutes/run (in parallel) to 30 seconds. Still no plans for containers in prod.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Real talk for non devs wondering if they should get into coding. You probably can't code. However, as someone who can, I won't gatekeep you from trying. And, if you try earnestly and ask me questions, I will gladly share my knowledge with you.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

AOL had home pages you couldn't do much with. Curiosity led me to figure out how websites work. Then I fooled around in the business world for 20 years until it finally hit me that coding was a lot more fun than parroting corp speak for a living.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

8.3 years ago, we adopted @sentry.io and never looked back. Sentry has been a joy to use and fun to watch grow and expand over the years.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Writing gnarly queries with CTE's and temporary tables is the most fun I've had with MySQL in years. I don't get to write a lot of complex reporting, so today I'm especially thankful for having strong knowledge of SQL and MySQL. That background is the reason this has been such a joy.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

It's 3:50 AM. My canvas, the web. My brush, Laravel.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Laravel Pipelines can clean up a multi-step process and make your code more testable. @ashallendesign.bsky.social has a nice guide here: ashallendesign.co.uk/blog/laravel... The image shows a somewhat contrived example of refactoring to pipelines.

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments

A classic from @nunomaduro.bsky.social posted on Twitter: "Good software engineers are pragmatic, not dogmatic." Favor clarity over cleverness. Resist abstraction without reason. We benefit most when viewing these principles as flexible guides rather than incontrovertible truths.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Tip for solo devs I got from Caleb Porzio: Keep a PR workflow. Review your own code. I take this further by writing issues as though I'm the user. I then create a branch for the work. When I'm done and tests are passing, I review the changes, paying close attention to problems reported by my IDE.

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Classic #Laravel Tip: Tim MacDonald has a great post about returning something other than the Builder from a query scope. Check it out: timacdonald.me/query-scopes...

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished writing some tests. Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes!

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve just update the Laravel starter pack (with some great suggestions from @cmorrell.com). Lots of good people to follow here: bsky.app/start/did:pl...

submitted 161 days ago • 34 comments

Classic Tip: @michael.dyrynda.au posted back during the pandemic about speeding up code coverage reports by using pcov instead of xdebug. As brilliant now as it was then. t.co/aBZDRbbncT

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Cool news from my favorite IDE company, JetBrains. WebStorm and Rider are now free for non-commercial use! From now on, you can use these IDEs for learning, open-source project development, content creation, or hobby development for free. blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10...

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." -- Michael Dell Dream: ✔️ Framework: Laravel✔️ Guys! I'm gonna make it! 🎉

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Classic #Laravel Tip: Many things in Laravel are macroable. When you wish X could do Y, like why isn't there a ->last() method on the Query Builder (so you don't have to do ->latest()->first()), you can write a macro and make it happen.

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

"Efficient MySQL Pagination Using Deferred Joins". Come for the efficient pagination. Stay for the composite index education. aaronfrancis.com/2022/efficie...

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Classic #Laravel Tip: Scheduled tasks run sequentially in the order they are defined. To avoid long-running commands from causing delayed execution of subsequent tasks, either convert them to queued jobs or run those commands in the background. See: laravel.com/docs/11.x/sc...

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

feeling so hyped about php, laravel, the community, and all the web stuff lately—this whole combo has been on fire recently!

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to use #Twilio in your #Laravel applications, forget packages. Just create a service provider for the Twilio #php SDK. Here's a gist to get you started: t.co/xpigZjhlsz

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

If PHP is dead, how come #Laravel keeps growing?

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

Classic #Laravel Tip: The route() helper has a third parameter. If you pass false, it will return the relative url/path of the route.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

I really hope the migration from X to here takes hold and ALL of my #Laravel peeps make the move. I'm going to kick things off by posting a bunch of tips from the good old days.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments