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2025

Sticky database connections across requests with Laraveloriginal ↗
3 Sept 2025
Fake expectationsoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2025
Mark all files as un-viewed in a GitHub pull requestoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2025

2023

Single-use testsoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2023
Fast database queries are not always betteroriginal ↗
24 Aug 2023

2022

Unique jobs and reserving resources on the queueoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2022

2021

Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing applicationoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2021
Git rebase: a love storyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2021
Would you like fry with that? Using a HasOne over a HasMany relationship in Laraveloriginal ↗
14 Mar 2021
Follow the Eloquent roadoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2021

2020

Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquentoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2020
Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationshiporiginal ↗
10 Oct 2020
Avoid false positives by utiliting magic values in your testsoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teamsoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2020
Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument APIoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020

2019

Query scopes, meet action scopesoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2019
The case of the Laravel TestCaseoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2019
Dedicated query builders for Eloquent modelsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2019
Simple performance monitoring a Laravel Forge deployed applicationoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cooloriginal ↗
23 Jan 2019
Tips to speed up your PHPUnit testsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2019

2018

Global application settingsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2018
Giving collections a voiceoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2018
My feature test suite setuporiginal ↗
11 Nov 2018
Overriding Laravel Mix during testing in 5.8original ↗
4 Nov 2018
Loading Eloquent relationship countsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2018
Versatile response objects in Laraveloriginal ↗
11 May 2018
Laravel Cashier: a helping handoriginal ↗
4 May 2018

2017

Backup multiple sites and frameworks with Laravel Backuporiginal ↗
31 Oct 2017
Foreign key validation ruleoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2017
Enforcing valid data access from a form request objectoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2017
Writing a zero downtime deployment scriptoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2017

2016

Fluent validation rules for Laraveloriginal ↗
31 Dec 2016
Being a developer in regional Australiaoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2016