PHP
Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
Last week, I started using a M1 powered MacBook Air as my primary computer. It feels much faster that my previous 16″ MacBook Pro with Intel processor. Here’s a good post on how Apple made Read more…
PHP
Generating unique, random-looking voucher codes
Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how Read more…
PHP
A storm in a glass of water
My colleague Brent makes the case for targetting and uses the latest PHP version. Read More
PHP
A pragmatic introduction to event sourcing
Frank De Jonge recently give a very nice introdution to event sourcing. Here’s the recording If you want to know more about event sourcing, you’ll be happy to know that my team is creating a Read more…
PHP
Functional Programming is not weird: you just need some new patterns
Don’t be afraid of friction when learning new things. Read More
PHP
CORS Visualized
Let’s see what CORS is actually doing, and why it’s actually our friend. Read More
PHP
5 Simple Laravel Tips and Tricks
Here are 5 simple Laravel tips and tricks that you can start applying and using in your Laravel applications right now! Read More
PHP
Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS
My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis. Read More
Coding
What happened to the pipe operator
I just saw u/SaraMG‘s great pipe operator RFC. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator I believe it to be one of the finest additions to PHP in the last few years. Why didn’t it make it into the language? Never Read more…