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I've been self hosting Rybbit on one of my own domains for a while now, and I figured it's worth writing about since it's exactly the kind of project I wish I had found earlier. What it is Rybbit is an open source, privacy friendly analytics p...
I just shipped Tubecraft , a self hosted assistant for managing YouTube video metadata: thumbnails, descriptions, and an AI chat to talk about your channel or a specific video. The idea came from the usual YouTube grind. Every video needs a decen...
I recently renovated my house and we chose a domotic installation. For that we chose QBUS, a belgian company that created all the necessary components. They'...
Fear makes the wolf look bigger
I have this website that crawls reddit posts and put them online. There's hundred of thousands of entries, each one with their own URL. The listing is paginate...
Something Given Has No Value
Laravel Valet is awesome and it automatically set your local domains up with SSL certificates, so that you can use your local domain.test with https Howeve...
Pretend to be strong until the day you forget you're pretending
Never stop trying, even when things get though, because they always get eventually. Don't give up.
spatie/laravel-backup is an amazing Laravel Package that allows you to automatically send backups of your laravel application to an AWS S3 Bucket. It's good...
I have this very specific project running in PHP 7.4 on my machine with Laravel Valet. It's a front end application in vuejs with a separate back end and the...
TL;DR : A Mixin is a script file containing some logic that you can import into a vuejs component. It is structured exactly like in the script tag of a classic...
How to use a Presenter class Super simple! class BookPresenter extends Presenter { public function __construct( public Book $book ) {}...
Another Design Pattern to cover in PHP are the Transformers . This one is really simple to understand. It allows you to return an object to another format i...
TL;DR A repository is an interface-signed class that encapsulate all SQL queries in specific methods. The repository class is then injected into your control...
A ambitious man sees a castle on the horizon. He wants to have a big castle too. He goes to an old, wise man and tells him, "you see this castle ? I wan...
VS Code is a powerful and versatile IDE, but out of the box, it doesn't have much support for PHP developers. Fortunately, the PHP community made several exten...
For the past weeks I've been working on a design overhaul of laravelpackages.net For those who don't know this website, it's a database of composer packages...
TLDR; With Abstract Classes, you can define default behaviours that can be inherited by subclasses. That's not possible with interfaces. The template design pa...
I just recently setup a new VPS to install discourse. First step was to create my subdomain on cloudflare. Then I ssh'd into the VPS and start executing th...
The Singleton is a design pattern of class creation that garantee instanciating a single object of that class and provide a unique point of access to that ob...
"IoC" stands for Inversion of Control and I already talked about it in my PHP Course : What Is Dependency Injection As for the "Container&qu...