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Welcome, yet again, to another incarnation of my blog and personal site. If you've arrived here directly, you may not be aware that I transferred this blog from a different site called omigo.sh. It...

Let's say you have a simple form with a plain old submit to the server without Ajax. Sometimes the process take up to a second or even more, depending on the payload. Obviously if you're sending a...

There are many advantages to storing timestamps in UTC in your database but I'm not going to go into them right now. But what do you do when you want to display the user's local time on the...

While working on my SaaS app Sikrt.com I ran into what I thought was a bug, which caused me to waste almost 2 hours tracking it down. In the end it turned out to be something trivial. TL;DR An...

The 2019 Tech Radar is a list of web technologies that I've become interested in this year. While I am very well entrenched and comfortable in the Laravel-Vue ecosystem, I can't help but peek at what...

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...