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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...

One annoyance of working in Windows in an open-source tech stack is that a lot of the dev tooling isn't as good as on a Mac. The problem rears its ugly head whenever I have to use...

There are situations where I need to remove one or more query parameters from my app's URL, and then return the new URL. Similarly, I want to be able to add a new parameter easily. Furthermore, in...

I have a predilection for using enum column types in my Laravel projects. I don't abuse them but I turn to them often when I have a well-defined range of possible values. One of the disadvantages of...

This may seem so obvious that I shouldn't be blogging about it but I'm doing it anyway. I haven't really had to simulate a specific HTTP exception but recently I needed to create some custom 404,...

Digging deeper into Vue router, I attempted something fairly mundane, namely listening to a couple of mouse events on an anchor tag generated by <router-link>. I simply wanted to...

Had a WTF moment when I deployed a new Vue project to Netlify, only to be confronted with this message when refreshing any route that's not root. It worked just fine locally! Here's how to fix this....

Like a lot of people, I hate working with forms. It's one of those tedious things that almost never gets better. Most projects that accept user input will require one or more forms at some point. And...