December 18th, 2020 under CSS

SVG favicons allow you to invert your favicon's color scheme for users that are using dark mode.

December 30th, 2020 under Devops

GitHub has a set of pre-installed packages with the default containers it provides. Learn how you can override the default PHP version.

April 9th, 2019 under Devops

Here's my review of Netlify Dev after a few hours of using it.

January 11th, 2020 under JavaScript

I recently added Algolia search to this website (ohseemedia.com). When deciding on how to implement the front end, I ended up going with Alpine.js and saw a ~200kb bundle size reduction by using Alpine.js over Alogolia's InstantSearch.js.

January 14th, 2021 under Laravel

Learn how to add Stripe's Checkout and Customer Portal products to your Laravel application using Laravel Cashier.

January 2nd, 2021 under Laravel

A couple of open source packages makes storing and testing encrypted database values in Laravel a breeze.

December 20th, 2020 under Laravel

This error can happen when you have two of the same class names declared in the same namespace.

May 28th, 2020 under Laravel

May 17th, 2020 under Laravel

Here's a quick package you can use to fake the Queue for a specific set of lines in a Laravel test.

May 3rd, 2020 under Laravel

There's a common problem when using Laravel Forge to provision servers on AWS.

April 19th, 2020 under Laravel

Many people use an in-memory SQLite database when running their Laravel feature tests. If you're doing this, chances are you can improve the runtime of your Laravel test suite.

December 20th, 2019 under Laravel

Follow along as we build a drop down component with Caleb Porzio's Laravel Livewire.

December 11th, 2019 under Laravel

When using Laravel Dusk, you have to ensure you're using the correct Chrome Driver version based on the version of Chrome installed on the machine.

October 1st, 2019 under Laravel

Here's how you can quickly get started with linting your PHP code using the CodeSniffer library.

September 1st, 2019 under Laravel

The following workflow script can be used as a starting point for building and testing a Laravel application with GitHub Actions.

May 31st, 2019 under Laravel

If you upload files to AWS S3 via your Laravel application, but want to restrict access to those files, you can do so using signed requests.

March 30th, 2019 under Laravel

Laravel provides a simple way to declare event listeners out of the box via the EventServiceProvider class.

February 13th, 2019 under Laravel

Here's a quick snippet to get HTTP request logging setup quickly in Laravel.

January 12th, 2019 under Laravel

Learn how to fix a potential performance problem when serializing models for Laravel jobs.

January 5th, 2019 under Laravel

Seeders in the Laravel framework allow you to populate your database with fake/seeded data. As you probably know, you can call a seeder from within a migration using Laravel. This technique is used when you have data in your database that is critical to your codebase, like permissions. Permissions are referenced in your codebase, so they must exist in your database at all times as well.

December 23rd, 2020 under MySQL

Let's run through how you can setup and configure the MySQL general log.

April 30th, 2020 under PHP

Quick tip on how you can fix PHPUnit from splitting test output onto new lines.

April 19th, 2020 under PHP

One of the major pain points of updating dependencies is the strict version requirements developers place on their packages.

January 4th, 2020 under React

React error boundaries allow you to prevent your React application from completely crashing in the event of an error in your code. 

September 30th, 2019 under React

Learn how to properly unmount React components when using React Hooks.

May 21st, 2019 under React

Let's take a look at how you can fix this common error in React.

March 23rd, 2019 under React

Learn how to fix the "Rendered fewer hooks than expected." error with React Hooks.

March 16th, 2019 under React

Let's review the rules of React Hooks, and how you can fix the "Hooks can only be called inside the body of a function component." error.

May 23rd, 2020 under Statamic

You can use GitHub's Gists to embed your code blocks via the Oh See Gists add-on.

January 16th, 2020 under Statamic

Statamic includes a built-in mechanism for setting up 301 and 302 HTTP redirects.

January 12th, 2020 under Statamic

With Statamic v3, you can generate static sites which means you can deploy to services such as Netlify, AWS S3, Now, etc.

January 12th, 2020 under Statamic

By default, when you output content from a field into a template, Statamic will attempt to run that content through the Antlers templating language.

January 12th, 2020 under Statamic

You can use Statamic's redirect tag plus a custom blueprint to setup dynamic HTTP redirects on your Statamic website.

December 13th, 2020 under TailwindCSS

Adding dark mode support to a Tailwind website couldn't be easier with Tailwind's first party support.

January 15th, 2020 under TailwindCSS

You can now use CSS transforms right out of the box with TailwindCSS v1.2.

January 15th, 2020 under TailwindCSS

Support for CSS grids has been added to Tailwind v1.2.

January 13th, 2020 under TailwindCSS

TailwindCSS 1.2 adds the ability to apply CSS transitions right out of the box!

January 1st, 2021 under Thoughts

Taking a new approach to goal setting in 2021 by making my goals public, high level, and planned out.

April 12th, 2019 under Thoughts

Here's one of the first tips I'd give to beginner programmers.

April 5th, 2019 under Tips

Here are 5 keyboard shortcuts you can implement in any IDE to help navigate your code faster.

July 9th, 2020 under TypeScript

You need to pay close attention when creating factories with typeorm-factory.

January 10th, 2021 under Vue

Use Vue's built-in prop validators to validate your component's props.