PinnedMade a Laravel app in 1 minute, in my phoneNo installs, no downloads, its pure magic, and you can do it too — One of the things that start to take its toll when creating simple prototypes or small projects is the setting up the kitchen sink: creating the migrations, syncing up the models, each model attributes and properties, setting up the factories and seeders, shoving traits here and there… I think you…Laravel4 min readLaravel4 min read
PinnedHosting Laravel for free in 2022Heroku as died, long live the free alternatives — Heroku these past days was in hot waters for one simple reason: a place to go for hosting small projects for free was moving to paid plans exclusively. Most developers had to look for an alternative home for their small projects. I was just planning to mount Larawiz, my online…Laravel9 min readLaravel9 min read
Feb 21Laravel: Tiding up your API requestsNobody wants a wall of text of method only to push a tweet — Twitter new ruler has shot down free usage of their API, and some folks have decided to refactor their application to use other social networks. It’s not like anyone wants to pay a dollar for 3 requests, but here we are now. The problem with that refactoring are HTTP Server…PHP3 min readPHP3 min read
Jan 10Get a Console, not a Graphics CardDoes it makes sense on the current GPU economics? — There is something very wrong with the current pricing for graphic cards. Latest “next gen” cards have been put in the market with unfathomable prices, and pretty much everyone on the Internet is pissed off. Look no further than the last 6 months. The newest RTX 4090 would have been…Pc Gaming3 min readPc Gaming3 min read
Dec 12, 2022Do you need your own PC?Ask these yourself before wasting big bucks — After Black Friday came and went, I saw that people took it as a great opportunity to build their own PC. They were not wrong, there was some great discounts and sales for mature platforms and some recently launched hardware. …Hardware4 min readHardware4 min read
Dec 5, 2022Subscriptions: Moving the cycle dateSometimes the answer is the most simpler one — Long time ago, I was working for a client who had a very archaic subscription system. It was very rigid, had some hacky ways to change some subscription data, and had no CI/CD at all. One of the most problematic situations was to change the subscription date. An user was…PHP3 min readPHP3 min read
Oct 12, 2022Laravel: Reusing a HTTP/2 connectionNo need to let the connection go from your server — Most of you who use the HTTP Client included in Laravel tend to be wary of doing multiple requests to a server. …PHP4 min readPHP4 min read
Oct 10, 2022Laravel: Scoping queries in the URLThe session won’t help you make things easier — One of the projects I worked on had small but important problematic: users should be able to manage multiple subscriptions through my on-premises Subscriptions library. GitHub - Laragear/Subscriptions: Subscriptions on-premises, without any payment system! Manage subscriptions on-premises, without any payment systems! Become a Sponsor and get instant access to this package…github.comPHP4 min readPHP4 min read
Oct 10, 2022Laravel: Are Observers really evil?Is the developer out of touch? No, is the framework who is wrong… — There are two ways to hook into an Eloquent Model Event: using your Model boot and registering a callback for a given event name, or registering an Observer. For small tasks, going for a simple callback is enough. You can even do it in your Eloquent Model traits and call…PHP5 min readPHP5 min read
Oct 4, 2022SurrealDB wants to be the future of SQLOut with the old geezer SQL. In the new way to use a database. — The big news some weeks ago was SurrealDB reaching a relative stable version 1.0 and beta public release. At time of writing this is still on beta, and there are some features and documentation missing, but given what the guys behind SurrealDB promised (and delivered), seems like the age of…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
