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...