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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

Like the idea of UUIDs in #Laravel models, but hate the giant, hyphen-separated strings? I'm about to release a new implementation of Snowflake IDs that give you globally-unique, ordered, numeric IDs. (Same as what Twitter and Discord use.)

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@inxilpro

1 year

Oooh. Just hit a UUID collision.

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@inxilpro

2 years

There's so much more that I want to eventually open-source, too. Like check out this beautiful date-picker…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

How many times a week do you dump a model in #laravel and then have to scroll down to the attributes and expand them? laravel-dumper brings the model attributes to the top of the dd() output for easier debugging.

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@inxilpro

2 years

And here's the current API. The wizard now supports Laravel-style rules for each step! 🔥

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@inxilpro

2 years

Alright. I just tagged the first stable pre-release of Laravel Dumper: Just `composer require` and instantly get improved `dd()` and `dump()` output for most Laravel core classes (like Models, Query Builders, the Service Container, etc).

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

One of these days I'm going to get around to the 1.0 release of this universal address input component…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Hoping to launch the 0.1 release of Dawn by early next week!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

I find that 90% of the the time, the @laravelphp commands that I write follow the exact same pattern: - Query some data - Perform some operation on each row Internally, we have a trait that simplifies this immensely. I'm working on open-sourcing it right now.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

Imagine a world where you could use `x-rules` in @Alpine_JS with @laravelphp -style validation rules and get browser-native errors… 👨‍🍳

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

I'm so excited about the release of #Laravel 9. A bunch of folks have outlined the major highlights of this release, so I want to take a second to talk about the few contributions I've made and why I'm excited about them! 👇

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

5 years

My new favorite custom @tailwindcss utility.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

5 months

I'm excited about this one! I just submitted a #Laravel PR that would add support for markdown views!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

26 days

The fact that I can create such a flexible custom @Alpine_JS directive in ~10 mins is just incredible.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

90% of my console commands follow the same process: 1. Grab data (usually from the DB) 2. Process that data row-by-row Our `glhd/conveyor-belt` package makes it so nice to write those commands, and comes with dozens of convenience features. Just released version 2.0!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Some really solid open-source packages that've come out of our internal Laravel needs:

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

PSA: If your PHP Github Actions build is failing right now, it's because the psr extension was (accidentally?) added to o the very popular setup-php action. You can fix it by adding ":php-psr" to your extensions list.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

Alpine.js is so so so good.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

Thinking about adding another custom Blade directive to our app. Thoughts?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 years

So excited about the new Query Builder contract in Laravel 9. Can't wait!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 months

Is `Str::snake` not EXTREME enough for you? Introducing, `Str::extremeSnake` 🧨🧨🧨🧨 (Gist incoming…)

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

Just watched @JustSteveKing , @brendt_gd and @bobbybouwmann talk about #Laravel structure on @laravelnews … If you want a nice balance between the "standard Laravel structure" and a more domain-oriented approach, check out `internachi/modular` ✅ Split logic into isolated

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

10 months

I don't think enough people know about `base_convert` in PHP. It's a neat tool if you need to squeeze something like an ID into fewer characters. Here's a fun example: generating unique 11-character slugs for a URL shortener.

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@inxilpro

11 months

Imagine you could wrap any part of a #Laravel template in a special blade component and have that content immediately editable without any other changes… 😎

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

Folks were talking about prefixed ULIDs in response to my Snowflake post the other day. This is just a guess, but I think something like this would work:

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

9 months

TIL about `whereMorphedTo` in #Laravel Eloquent… It handles both a model class or a specific model! ❤️

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 years

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 years

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Alright. I just tagged version 0.5.0 of Laravel Dumper, with Laravel 9 support and a minor change to how custom casters are registered. I plan on tagging the first stable release in a day or two unless any bugs turn up.

GitHub - glhd/laravel-dumper: Upgrade dd() with Laravel-specific improvements

Upgrade dd() with Laravel-specific improvements. Contribute to glhd/laravel-dumper development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Nice… got a working `x-wizard` @Alpine_JS directive. Here's the markup for this demo: I'm going to clean up a bit more and try to publish next week.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

I know that there are reasons for this, but the fact that I can't grab @tailwindui examples in Blade/Alpine really sucks. I know @calebporzio has talked in the past about wanting to make this happen. I would 100% pay extra for this.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 years

This is promising. Imagine HMR for @laravelphp …

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 months

So I've been thinking about putting together a talk about maintaining the same PHP app for 25+ years. Is this something folks would be interested in? If so, are there any particular questions that you'd like to have answered?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

I've seen a bunch of people talking domain-oriented #Laravel structure lately. I'd encourage folks to check out `internachi/modular`… Modular lets you stick to Laravel conventions, while still breaking your app into logical chunks.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

Want the simplest way to add breadcrumbs to your #Laravel app? Check out glhd/gretel — configure breadcrumbs directly in your routes, and display them with accessible markup (w/ support for most major UI frameworks).

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

10 months

Alright. I'm not quite ready to tag 1.0, but I'm pretty sure this is the locked API… special✨ lets you use enums to access specific database records—think of it almost as eloquent-backed enums. I'd love some feedback before I commit to 1.0!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Want to register your own `dd()` customizations? In the latest laravel-dumper release you can do just that.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 years

Coming soon to @phpstorm : @Alpine_JS support! I just submitted the first working version to @jetbrains so hopefully it'll be live in a few days.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Alright. Tagged the first version of @glhd/alpine-wizard just now! Check it out: Try it on CodeSandbox:

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

10 months

I think about custom relationships in #laravel all the time, and I just had a new idea that I may explore. I'm curious, though—does something like this look appealing to other people at all?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

PHP x NYC has started!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

15 days

You can easily build a feature-rich app with just Laravel. Right now, you can’t with just Remix. That’s the difference. React can benefit from a Laravel backend. Laravel can benefit from a React front end. They’re technologies that go *great* together. But if I had to choose

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@mjackson

16 days

A better way to say this is: If Rails and Laravel are so “full stack”, then why is everyone writing their frontends with React?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Tinkering with an @Alpine_JS wizard directive, and having a little trouble naming things. We need to know when each step applies and when it's done. I don't love `x-wizard:done` — anyone have a better name?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 years

The @Alpine_JS plugin for @phpstorm is now available in the plugin marketplace:

Alpine.js Support - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin | Marketplace

This plugin adds support for the following Alpine.js features: Auto-complete alpine directives such as x-dataSet the language to JavaScript inside your directives so...

plugins.jetbrains.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

This is a cool approach to SEO-friendly routing! One way to level this up even further would be to use hashids to generate URL-friendly suffixes that map 1:1 to your primary keys. Something like…

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@aarondfrancis

6 months

📹 Generate self-healing URLs with Laravel! (And throw exceptions that render as HTTP redirects 🌶️)

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Alright. I just tagged the first pre-release of Dawn: 1.0 is a ways off, but what's there is representative enough that I'm OK posting about it. TODO: 🔲 Finish Dusk-compatible API 🔲 DX improvements 🔲 Docs 🔲 Cross-platform testing 🔲 Lots of cleanup

GitHub - glhd/dawn: Experimental next-gen browser testing for Laravel

Experimental next-gen browser testing for Laravel. Contribute to glhd/dawn development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

OK, I just made the repo public for my *very* early @linear SDK for PHP/Laravel. It's built on top of Saloon by @carre_sam and @spatie_be 's laravel-data package, so you get a ton of functionality out-of-the-box. All data is built directly from the GraphQL definition, so the

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

8 months

I feel like a static "qualify" method on your eloquent models is a huge quality-of-life improvement as soon as you need to do complex joins or subqueries…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

In our app, we have the concept of a "record locator." Here's an example: BB1-1KO-E1EJO5 From this string I can get: - The model class - The model ID - The date that model was created - The "owner" of the model if it has one Is this something other people would use?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Registering resource routes with #Laravel and Gretel is so freaking nice…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 months

My wife and I just got dressed up to go out to dinner and see a concert. 10 mins after the babysitter was supposed to get here (and she’s ALWAYS on time), my wife asks, “you scheduled her for tonight, right?” Turns out not only did I not text the babysitter, but I also never

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Just built a very cool internal artisan command. We have a daily scheduled task that takes a snapshot of our production database, anonymizes it, and exports it to a S3 bucket. No we can just run `php artisan dev:setup` to quickly import those dumps locally whenever needed!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

So much better…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Having a lot of fun building the navigation UI. Another pretty complex set of interactions made possible thanks to @Alpine_JS ❤️

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

It seems like this would be relatively simple to add to #Laravel belongs-to relations. `orderByRelation` would be a lot trickier to do on other kinds of relations, though. Is this something folks would use if I PR'd it to the framework?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Ooh… now that Laravel has its own VarDumper implementation, I could potentially PR the features in laravel-dumper to core. What do you think?

GitHub - glhd/laravel-dumper: Upgrade dd() with Laravel-specific improvements

Upgrade dd() with Laravel-specific improvements. Contribute to glhd/laravel-dumper development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

For folks who didn't have the privilege of watching @DCoulbourne 's announcement at @LaraconAU : check out the Verbs docs at — they're still a work in progress, but they should give you a good sense of what Verbs is about!

Verbs: Event sourcing for PHP artisans

verbs.thunk.dev

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Alright. Just tagged the first pre-release version of Conveyor Belt, a package to make writing powerful @laravelphp Artisan commands a dream.

GitHub - glhd/conveyor-belt: All the underlying mechanics necessary to write artisan commands that...

All the underlying mechanics necessary to write artisan commands that process lots of data efficiently - glhd/conveyor-belt

github.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

In our app we don't actually store prefixed IDs, but we do provide a version of them to end-users. We use "hashids" to convert regular auto-incrementing IDs to non-sequential alphanumeric IDs. You could then easily prefix those if you wanted…

Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

Folks were talking about prefixed ULIDs in response to my Snowflake post the other day. This is just a guess, but I think something like this would work:

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 month

If @spatie_be can do it, why can't I? 😛

Countdown to One Billion

cmorrell.com

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

5/11 Next: In Laravel 8, a validation error would result in a 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝙴𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 with the message: "The given data was invalid." In Laravel 9, instead you'll get a message like: "The first name field is required (and 2 more errors)" 😍

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

@DCoulbourne @taylorotwell @joshbedo1 @charafmrah This poor kid was just venting because he doesn’t know how to use PHP, and look what he got himself into…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

Also, isn't the Verbs logo (by @NateGio ) amazing!?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

All of this with just…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

Does anyone have a favorite APM service for #Laravel apps? We're considering New Relic and Datadog, but I would love something less excessively enterprise-y if possible.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

I've had an idea for a #Laravel -related podcast for a while… I wanted to sit down and really think thru topics that I bump into somewhat regularly, but never feel important enough to really "get right." Introducing… Just published episode 1!

Over Engineered

A podcast where we explore unimportant programming questions (mostly PHP/Laravel/JavaScript) in extreme detail.

overengineered.fm

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

@tomschlick I'm in a trollish mood…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

Alpine is the spiritual successor to jQuery in all the good ways. Literally every site that's not built fully in JS should probably be using Alpine for sprinkles of interactivity.

flavio

@flaviocopes

6 months

Ok so I tried @Alpine_JS for something more than an hello world, and I'm hooked

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

All-in-all, I'm very happy with where the API for @glhd/alpine-wizard landed. Check it out!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

Has anyone tried to make Vercel for #Laravel ? Like, just point it to a Laravel repo and you have a site? Forge is great, but requires managing servers. Vapor is great, but is expensive for hobby projects. Fly is close, but every time I’ve used it it has NOT been seamless…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

OK, I think I just had a moment of genius. The one thing that's annoying about using @tailwindcss components is when you want to provide a default value that can be replaced by a custom value if necessary. I'm tinkering with a "default" modifier that could solve that.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

When event sourcing is appropriate, it can feel like magic. I just built an internal expense tool, and thinking about processes (verbs) rather than moments in time (nouns) was so so much easier. When @DCoulbourne launches Verbs at @LaraconAU I hope more folks get to enjoy this!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Here's a fully working Dawn browser test, using a stock @laravelphp installation with jetstream and @LaravelLivewire . I had to nail down a couple of bugs, but Dawn is starting to feel more and more solid!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

4 years

Alright. Anyone want to kick the tires on before @freekmurze shares it with thousands of people on Wednesday? 😬

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 month

@shrutibalasa I've been using porkbun for a while and they're pretty good. The prices are competitive and they offer things like free whois privacy, which is nice.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

5 months

TIL if you type "edit" in a #laravel tinker session, it'll open your editor to write out a multi-line code block. Very cool.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 months

So a couple days ago I posted about something that I couldn't share for privacy reasons… I just recorded a version where I cut out the parts that I couldn't show, so that I CAN show the interesting parts as a developer… I basically built a test generator that uses real Stripe

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

OK, I take it all back. I was feeling bad for this dude, assuming he was new to PHP and just over his head, but if you’ve been using PHP for 6 years and haven’t figured out the tooling yet, that’s on you…

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@joshbedo1

7 months

@grEvenX I've done php for like 6 years I've worked with plain pho, codeignite, cakephp, and laravel. Just like you assume things I'm gonna assume you've never used anything else besides php.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

9 months

FIRST GREEN!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

9 months

Train boarded. Secret project started! I’ll be meeting @DCoulbourne in about an hour and we have 72 hours to get a working package together…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Conveyor Belt 0.2.0 is out: a major refactor to add support for many more data sources. Get the features of Conveyor Belt (step mode, exception handling, debugging, etc) when you need to process big CSV or Excel files or import data from JSON sources!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

Can't wait until PhpStorm gets a taste of my new macbook… 😛

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

I was just on @TransistorFM scheduling the next @overngineeredfm episode and was kinda blown away by the list of guests so far… It's been so much fun to do the podcast, and I'm so incredibly grateful that all these *really* talented people took time out to join me. ❤️

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

26 days

@thefelipevega @Alpine_JS Here's the entire thing…

x-typed.js

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 month

This was a really good one. @taylorotwell did not disappoint as a guest. Building for the frontend in Laravel is better now than it ever has been, and it was really exciting to talk to Taylor about what could be next!

overengineered.fm

@overngineeredfm

1 month

Episode 16 of Over Engineered is out! ➡️ The Future of the Laravel Frontend w/ Taylor Otwell

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

9 months

OK. @DCoulbourne and I are set up, and sat down to record an episode of @overngineeredfm walking thru some of the things we want to sort out in the next couple of days. Here's a clip of us talking about the overall design goal of Verbs…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

7 months

If I did a Verbs livestream in an hour or so, would folks be interested? And if so, would you rather see me building something with Verbs, or working on the Verbs codebase?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

11 months

I just cleaned up some #Laravel HTTP client code, and I found so many beautiful fluent methods that let us delete about 100 lines of code! 😍 Not sure if they were there before and I missed them, or have been added since the feature was added…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 year

Tinkering with a new #Laravel Blade directive… Most of the time @laravel_idea handles types in Blade files for me. Every once in a while it can't for some reason, so I find myself adding @var annotations. I think I like this better… Thoughts?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

6 months

I just tagged version 2.0 of laravel-dumper which makes it compatible with recent versions of Laravel!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Was talking with @aarondfrancis about trying to rig up dynamic open graph images for — I hate how the default `Route::get()` image shows for every single page. Here's an idea…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

10 months

Having super powerful autocomplete for Alpine.js is so so nice. There are a few cases that I haven't sorted out yet—most notably when Alpine and Blade are interacting—but all-in-all this is a pretty nice experience.

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

4/11 In Laravel 9, you can just use the new 𝙱𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛 interface, and not have to worry about which specific type of query builder you're working with!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Did I just start implementing #Laravel Eloquent in JavaScript? Why yes I did…

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

3 months

This feels like a pretty reasonable set of changes to the Str::snake expectations. What do you think?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

8 months

Here's one that bugs me! When you're within 3 characters of the max length of `Str::limit` you can get into scenarios where the resulting string is both truncated and longer than the original. I'm tempted to PR a change to Laravel, but it's a bit of a breaking change. Thoughts?

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

9 months

Update time!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

22 days

Ooh, two to go to hit 2k :P

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

1 month

So it turns out when you have Taylor on your podcast, that seems to drive listenership 😂 Release day numbers for Over Engineered are 200% up for episode 16. Good thing it was also a great episode for all those new listeners! Also kinda wild to me that it’s already ep 16!

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Chris Morrell

@inxilpro

2 years

Well, it took me a whole 30 minutes to switch to @aarondfrancis 's Sidecar package. No more handling Chromium, Puppeteer, and Node on my app servers just to run Browsershot. The setup process is *so* freaking good.

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