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What better way to give back to the amazing open-source (and especially Laravel) community than to unlock the code behind Omigo.sh? To iterate, Omigo.sh is built on TightenCo's Jigsaw static site...

Let's say I'm processing some input in the form of an array or object, and I can't predict which keys are defined. If I try to reference a non-existent key and don't handle that properly, I'll get...

As wonderful as Laravel's documentation is, there are still plenty of undocumented features and hidden gems in the codebase. One of them is an Eloquent method called firstOr(). It first...

Laravel offers a nice helper method that you can use temporarily in your tests to turn off exception handling by the framework. What happens in certain cases is that you won't see the actual error...

I'm building a file upload/download feature into my SaaS app Sikrt, and after working out the kinks in a prototype version of the feature, to my consternation I discovered that clicking the download...

Listening to right now: Full Stack Radio Syntax.fm Laravel News Podcast No Plans to Merge Rework The Laravel Snippet The Laracasts Snippet or directly from Laracasts On my radar: Twenty...

HTTPie where were you all my life? I just discovered this command line tool and wanted to give it a try right away. Unfortunately I was working on a Windows 10 machine and the project's homepage...

I've wanted to contribute to open-source for a long time but getting started is always the hardest part. PHP package development is one of those areas that sounds simple on the surface but if you...

This is my collection of useful Linux shell commands from the perspective of a developer who is not primarily a sysadmin, yet uses Linux on a daily basis to test and deploy code in local, staging,...

Building APIs in Laravel (or more generally in PHP) often implies responding with some sort of JSON data. The format of this data should ideally be standardized. I try to follow the JSON API standard...