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Tauri is an exciting alternative to Electron for building cross-platform desktop applications. While not as mature as Electron and still missing some features, it offers a fresh approach via its...

I talked before about BankAlt.com, the first side-project with dynamic PHP/MySQL functionality I ever shipped. In that article I expressed my desire to resurrect the legacy PHP 5.X project and make...

My recent tweet on refactoring Laravel Eloquent query conditions to a trait proved popular so here it is with a little more context, in permanent form. My biggest side-project at the moment...

Electron uses the Chromium engine for rendering. This is the same engine that powers the Chrome browser. Sometimes you might run into a situation where a certain JavaScript or CSS feature that your...

I've been working and experimenting a lot lately with Carbon, the sublime PHP date and time utility library. I've tweeted a lot of Carbon tips and decided to collect all these tips into a permanent...

Following up on my previous article on grouping data using MySQL Common Table Expressions, I am offering an implementation of the same technique in Laravel. Note This requires MySQL v8.0+....

Note CTE (Common Table Expressions) are a MySQL feature since v8.0. Earlier versions won't be able to use this technique. My passion project these days is a Laravel app for cycling data from the...

In 2019, I started the "tradition" of reflecting on the past year, mainly from a developer & geek point of view. I think it's a useful tool for summarizing how I've grown as a developer, and what...

At the end of 2021 I decided to create a very basic Svelte/Vite/TailwindCSS 3 template that would provide a starting point for future projects. Thanks to modern tooling and automation, the procedure...

As we slowly roll into 2022, I decided to take a step back and have an objective look at my coding stack for the near future. It's a short one - I'll keep it focused strictly on my programming...