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
Nov 27PHP wishlist for 2024It’s never too late to make the language cooler through some hypothetical features — These are some ideas to make PHP a more cooler language, keeping it fresh but also more expressive without trying to be more difficult to work with. Immutable values PHP was never conceived as a “safe language”, but rather as a template language sitting between a C backend and an HTML frontend…PHP6 min readPHP6 min read
Nov 15Tailwind CSS: Stacking items without “absolute”Grid comes to the rescue with three lines of code — Before the grid CSS property was broadly adopted by major web browsers, there was only one way to stack items on top of each other: position: absolute. What this allowed was very simple. By adding position: absolute to children, while the parent was position: relative, these would be “floating below”…Tailwind Css1 min readTailwind Css1 min read
Nov 13HTML First is a fool’s dreamIt’s “Make HTML Great Again”… all over again — Many of you know, or now you know, that most snappy apps around the Internet are built on top of mature JavaScript frameworks, like React, Angular, Vue, Ember, Lit, you name it. Some are deeper, like those running JavaScript on the server (backend) like Svelte, SolidJS, ExpressJS, Koa, Backbone, and…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Nov 6Is a Mac with 8GB of RAM a bad deal?The macOS memory manager will fight tooth and nails to say no — It’s not difficult to find users recommending more RAM for any base Mac models (MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini), arguing that these devices are a borderline bad deal by their lack of system memory, and null upgradeability. At moment of writing, Apple sells their Mac base models with an 8GB of…Apple7 min readApple7 min read
Sep 28Should Resident Evil 4 for iPhone cost $60?The same game on console or PC. It’s worth the price for the same experience? — This week started with Resident Evil 4 being listed on the Apple’s App Store for $60. It’s a standard price for AAA (high production) games in the industry, some wanting to push it for $70. …Resident Evil5 min readResident Evil5 min read
Sep 11Starfield is great for 2013A hand-crafted experience met with half-baked features — The first ten hours with the game and you will see the level of hand-craftingness. Bethesda has put a lot of work to create a new world with a lot of places, materials, people, and narratives that makes the universe feel alive. The problem of Starfield is not the writing…Videogames4 min readVideogames4 min read
Jul 31Sonoma is the dawn of HackintoshApple killing the remainder of its Intel past, one feature at a time — The Cupertino company recently completed its transition to Apple Silicon at the WWDC 2023. …Apple4 min readApple4 min read
Jul 18Managing Roles and Permissions in LaravelMove aside Spatie, I’ve come to make something faster! — I honestly like Spatie’s library for managing roles and permissions in Laravel, but one thing I can’t fathom to understand is why everything is done through the database. Most of the time, you declare roles and permissions in your application. By having roles and permissions set in stone, not only…Laravel3 min readLaravel3 min read
