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The Summer 2021 edition of Laracon just ended, and I collected a variety of interesting links. Here they are. Gathered from @enunomaduro and his Types In Laravel talk Laracon schedule CLI tool...

When building an app around Strava's API, webhooks become critical, first to avoid unnecessarily polling the API, and second to enable automatic updates for activities and user profile. The latter...

Recently the local PHP 8 + Composer 2 + Laravel Valet dev environment on my M1 Mac Air got trashed for no discernable reason. This might well be an obscure problem that no one else but me...

Packages are great - they bring specific functionality out of the box, without the need to re-invent it yourself. The downside is that each additional package installed into an application creates...

Svelte does not come with a built-in router, and there are good reasons for that. One is to keep the framework lean. Another might be to defer the choice of router to the individual developer. There...

Svelte is my all-time favorite JS framework. Fresh on its heels comes SvelteKit, a framework for generating static sites with Svelte. Just what the doctor ordered. SvelteKit is currently in public...

Downloading and executing an exe file on Windows is safer when it comes with a PGP signature that you can verify. How do you check a PGP signature though? I've always avoided it until...

A very common scenario when building an Electron app is storing user settings/preferences permanently. This can be done in a number of ways, but one of the most robust is to store the settings on...

In this guide I'm going to explain how to deploy a static Svelte site to Netlify. Let's get started. The goal of this exercise is to deploy a simple Todo app from GitHub to Netlify. First, create a...

I host several websites on a Linode VPS, originally provisioned with Laravel Forge. I have long since canceled my Forge subscription, and I do my own maintenance, manually. I may not be the quickest...