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The “It's Just Like…” Heuristic
Why feeling that you understand a new idea, is a sign that you didn’t. Read more
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The Forty-Year Programmer
A brilliant post by Noah Gibbs with some good insights in what it means to be a developer and the things you should focus on. Read more
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You might not need `useRef` for that
According to the React maintainers, React developers reach for the useEffect hook too quickly. It is far from the only hook with many naive usages. Why won’t we go through my favorite example of an Read more…
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Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale
Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff! Read more
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Customising Laravel's URL signing key
How to swap Laravel’s URL signing key is not documented, but luckily Michael wrote a good post on it! Read more
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Creating installer commands for Laravel packages
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One of the joys of using packages in the Laravel ecosystem is how easy they are to install. Packages can be pulled in using Composer, and Laravel will automatically discover them.
In this post, you'll learn how to easily add an install command, making it even easier for package users to start using a package.
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Spawning workers based on queue workload
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%. Read more
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★ Getting information about all the models in your Laravel app
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I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new small package: spatie/laravel-model-info. Let's take a look at what this package can do.