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Creating a Ruby Gem for Ray
Ruby veteran Chris Oliver explained to me the basics of how to create a Ruby Gem (aka a Ruby package) for Ray. After I explained how Ray works internally, he coded up the foundation of Read more…
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Never Good Enough
Yesterday, Matt Stauffer on Twitter was very open on some mental health issues he is coping with. In response Kai shared this older blogpost which resonated with me. Read More
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Live coding new Ray features
In this stream, I live coded a neat little feature for Ray. We’re going to create a proxy class to record calls and perform them later.
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★ Determining the start of the next business day in Oh Dear
When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day). In Read more…
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PHP-Doc in Blade-Views
How to use PHP-doc tags for better autocompletion in Blade views. Read More
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Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet
Testing emails can be a pain. Luckily, there are plenty of tools out there that can make the process a lot easier. Let me show you how to setup MailHog, a local development tool for Read more…
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Generate HTTPS URLs when running Laravel behind a proxy
What is the TrustProxies middleware and how can it help you generate secure HTTPS URLs, even when running Laravel behind a proxy? Read More
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Dealing with failed jobs
Blog post with some practical tips on how to deal with failing and failed jobs. Read More
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Cold Starts in AWS Lambda
Mikhail Shilkov explains what cold starts are and discusses some interesting benchmarks. This article describes AWS Lambdaâthe dynamically scaled and billed-per-execution compute service. Instances of Lambdas are added and removed dynamically. When a new instance Read more…
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When to add types and when to infer in TypeScript
This is how Seb decides when or when not to explicitly add types in TypeScript. Read More