Pairing with Strangers (the Pair-amid Scheme)

I typically pair with people on my team but I recently reached out to Joe Tannenbaum when he mentioned that he'd never paired before. We both took a chance on an internet stranger, hopped on a Zoom...

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Migrating from Homebrew MySQL/Meilisearch/Redis to Laravel Herd Pro Services

Laravel Herd is a fantastic application from the Germans wizards at Beyondco.de that makes it so easy to run PHP applications on your Mac or Windows machine. They offer a paid Pro version that...

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Fluently removing global scopes with Laravel's new ScopedBy Attribute

Laravel v10.44 just shipped with a new approach to global scopes: #[ScopedBy]. Using my codebase as an example: Products have a global scope that hides them if their Company is not...

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Mapping a Hyper key on MacOS with Karabiner Elements (the easy way)

I was just helping someone set up a hyper key and was surprised at how confusing most of the guides were. So here's my very simple version! A hyper key is mapping a single key to...

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Processing Shopify Webhooks with Laravel Queues

I run a large marketplace application that has a Shopify sales channel application. Our users can connect this Shopify application to synchronize product data from their Shopify shops into our...

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Heating a wood shop with a passive solar heater

I'm located in Wisconsin, where we typically have harsh winters - in January our average daily low is 15 °F (-15 °C) and our average daily high is 23 °F (-5 °C). I have a single car garage wood...

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