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★ Introducing monthly playlists from team Spatie

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At Spatie, each one of our team members loves music. Scattered across our office are a couple of HomePods. Everyone in our team is free to stream his favourite music for others to hear (of course at an acceptable volume so everyone can still work).

This is a great way to discover music. In my mind, any automated algorithm that picks music for you is trumped what your friends and peers suggest to you.

Because of the pandemic, this way of sharing music with each other was lost. That's why our team will from now on create monthly playlists. The process is easy: every month we will choose a theme for the playlist and each team member picks two or three tracks.

The first theme is "Late Night Something" (it's not "late night coding" because not everyone on our team codes.

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Here's our playlist on Apple Music. And here is the same playlist on Spotify.

Here's at the Spotify embed so you can listed from your browser too.

I hope you'll enjoy these tracks as much as we do! I'm already looking forward to next month's playlist.

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★ Debug apps running on remote servers using Ray

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Earlier this year, we released Ray, a desktop app that allows you to debug faster. Instead of dumping values to the browser or console, Ray allows you to display debugging information beautifully in a dedicated window.

Since launch, Ray helps you debug local projects. Today, we're adding the most requested feature to Ray: the ability to connect to remote servers. All output of the ray() call, will be sent securely from your remote server to the local app via SSH.

Using this feature, you can quickly investigate problems on your production servers that you are unable to recreate locally.

In this short video you'll see a quick demo!

If you're not familiar with Ray yet, read this blogpost on why we created Ray and how you can use it. Do also check out the docs and promotional site.

Since launch, our team has added a lot of features. If you have any feature request or questions, let us now via the discussions tab on spatie/ray.

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