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Apologies in advance for the slightly click-baity title, but bear with me and this method might prove useful to you. At any rate, I'm documenting it for my own use. The official 6.0 -> 7.0 upgrade...

The fashion these days dictates that every developer blog post come with a hero image. While not entirely true, I started this pattern with the blog and I'll be damned if I end it. The blog engine...

The 2020 Tech Radar is a list of web (and related) technologies that have caught my eye, and that I'm hoping to give more attention to this year. I started this series with the 2019 Tech Radar and...

When I spun up a new Livewire component with artisan (Laravel's CLI tool) recently, I was intrigued enough by the cute ASCII logo to take a look at the source code to see how it was...

I'll start off by assuming that you are currently employed, whether full- or part-time, working as a contractor, or freelancing. Even if you are not working for one reason or another, some of these...

I must have started 2020 on the right foot because my first tweet of the year was the most popular by far. It's basically a short animation of the sign up form that I built for my SaaS app...

As it seems to be popular in the dev community these days, for the first time ever I've decided to write my own summary of 2019. I'm curious how 2020 will compare but this is definitely not a...

Right after upgrading my local PHP environment to 7.4 on the Windows laptop that I use at work, I ran a Laravel artisan console command for an HTTP request to a 3rd party API. I ran the command in my...

On Mac, PHP can be easily upgraded to 7.4 with Homebrew. However, the command line may continue to show the previous version. Here's how to fix that. Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac is a...

Are you a developer who wants to record part or all of your screen on a Mac, and then convert it to GIF to post on social media or elsewhere? Here's my personal workflow to achieve this. The things...