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freekmurze, 10 months ago to random

🔗 State Of Laravel Survey 2023
https://stateoflaravel.com/

freekmurze, 1 month ago to php

We have made it!

🥳 One. Billion. Downloads. 🥳

Our story: https://1billion.spatie.be

#php #laravel

RT = ❤️

freekmurze, 27 days ago to random

🔗 How we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon
https://flareapp.io/blog/how-we-stopped-a-ddos-attack-while-at-a-conference

freekmurze, 4 months ago to php

💡 TIL #PHP has a function that can calculate the bounding box coordinates of a string that’s rendered in a given font
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php

I’m using this function in an upcoming feature of Oh Dear: status badges. These badges are svgs with variable text (and length)

freekmurze, 2 months ago to random

🔗 Reducing PHP's CPU usage by nearly 40% by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04
https://ohdear.app/news-and-updates/reducing-phps-cpu-usage-by-nearly-40-by-upgrading-from-ubuntu-2004-to-2204

freekmurze, 11 months ago to random

🔗 Thoughts on event sourcing: Replaying events
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/event-sourcing/replaying-events/

freekmurze, 18 days ago to random

🔗 Primitive Obsession: what it is, how to spot it and, how to fix it!
https://acairns.co.uk/posts/primitive-obsession

freekmurze, 4 months ago to random

🔗 Is it time to ditch MySQL and PostgreSQL for SQLite?
https://onfold.sh/blog/is-it-time-to-ditch-mysql-and-postgresql-for-sqlite

freekmurze, 11 months ago to random

🔗 Read-only web apps
https://adactio.com/journal/20113

freekmurze, 9 months ago to php

🔗 Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance
https://www.deviaene.eu/articles/2023/why-prefix-php-functions-calls-with-backslash/
#php #performance

freekmurze, 8 months ago to php

The Symfony Ignition bundle has been tagged 1.0.0

This makes it easy to start using the best error page for #PHP in Symfony projects.

https://github.com/spatie/symfony-ignition-bundle

🙌 Thanks for your work on this GitHub user amacrobert

If you're a Symfony user and you're trying this, let me know how it goes!

freekmurze, 8 months ago to random

🎶 And now time or a different kind of release: I’m proud to share that my new album titled “Kind” is now available.

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/be/album/kind/1706583729
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3nFyyigKPTzp7rzYtK8fq4

In this post, I share in detail how this album was made:
https://freek.dev/2569-creating-my-new-album-kind

Should you listed to it, let me know your thoughts on it!

freekmurze, 5 months ago to Laravel

🚀 Laravel PDF has been released!

🔥 This package can create PDFs from Blade views

🎨 You can use modern CSS syntax and frameworks like Tailwind to style your PDFs.

🧪 Comes with a fake so you can easily test code that generates a PDF

😍 Lots of Laravel niceties

Read about all features in this blog post:
https://freek.dev/2625-easily-create-pdfs-in-laravel-apps

Full docs here:
https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v1/introduction

Repo on GitHub (star if you like it 👍)
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-pdf

#laravel #php

freekmurze, 5 months ago to php

I really like putting little helper functions on enums
#php

https://github.com/spatie/tabular-assertions/commit/57fd4d306b85c10c5045c131cc5470e54d37e7ab

freekmurze, 11 months ago to php

🔗 Rust for PHP developers
https://freek.dev/2522-rust-for-php-developers
#php #rust

freekmurze, 26 days ago to random

🔗 Elevate Your Laravel Eloquent Queries with Tappable Scopes
https://seankegel.com/elevate-your-laravel-eloquent-queries-with-tappable-scopes

freekmurze, 2 months ago to Laravel

💪 Last week (and weekend) I tagged #Laravel 11 compatible version for about 100 of our most packages.

A big thank you to @laravelshift for providing quality PRs that were a good starting point.

The next few days, I’ll tag more packages 👍

🥳 Have fun upgrading to L11

freekmurze, 3 months ago to random

At PHP UK Conference 2024 I saw this excellent talk by @vanamerongen on a very cool git feature: bisect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzog0BTLrYY
#git

freekmurze, 2 months ago to php

Later this month, all @spatie packages will be downloaded a staggering…

🤯 1 BILLION TIMES 🤯

To mark that occasion we created a special site
https://1billion.spatie.be

You can read the story behind our journey there, and how we maintain all of it
#php #laravel

freekmurze, 2 months ago to php

My colleague @rias contributed a cool addition to our spatie/image package: you can now easily add text to any image.

https://spatie.be/docs/image/v3/image-manipulations/text

Easy peasy!

#php

freekmurze, 2 months ago to random

At Laracon EU, Flare was hit by a nasty DDoS attack!

You can read the full story here: https://flareapp.io/blog/how-we-stopped-a-ddos-attack-while-at-a-conference https://flareapp.io/blog/how-we-stopped-a-ddos-attack-while-at-a-conference

freekmurze, 2 months ago to random

🔗 Migrating from MySQL to Postgres using Laravel's query builder
https://flareapp.io/blog/migrating-from-mysql-to-postgres-using-laravels-query-builder

freekmurze, 1 month ago to random

🔗 Husky: How to automatically format, lint and test before you commit or push
https://tighten.com/insights/husky-how-to-automatically-format-lint-and-test-before-you-commit-or-push/

freekmurze, 27 days ago to random

🔗 Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JS
https://rouninmedia.github.io/protecting-your-email-address-via-svg-instead-of-js/

freekmurze, 3 months ago to random

🔗 Validate Data Types in Laravel Collections Using the ensure() Method
https://ashallendesign.co.uk/blog/laravel-collection-ensure