On my absurd podcast Cheese & Weather we covered a topic Jason Beggs has been requesting: what do we think of this soup that has been continuously simmering for 45 years? Since that article was written in 2019 it's actually a 50 year old soup! I'll let you listen to the...
Read ⇢I was honored to chat with my friend Matt Stauffer on his new podcast, The Business of Laravel. We chatted about building a large wholesale platform on the TALL stack, building a team of happy and productive developers, effectively managing a remote team, and of course, my...
Read ⇢I recorded my first tip video for the good people at Laravel News. Enjoy! Some favorites in America: eight in Indiana, three in North Dakota, twelve in Argentina, but I'm partial to America/Chicago. They come from timelib, which uses tz maintained by the Internet Assigned...
Read ⇢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 call, and had a blast pairing together! It turned out to be a great way to...
Read ⇢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 provides MySQL, Meilisearch full text search, Redis, and more. I've been running those...
Read ⇢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 visible.
I like this syntax a lot, and I also like to use a scope to remove global...