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128 languages ready to ship with your Laravel app

2026-05-20T11:02:05+02:00

If you've ever built a Laravel app that needed to speak more than one language, you know the drill. Laravel ships with English only. So for French, Spanish, Arabic, or any of the other 127 languages your users might speak — you're on your own. Or...

Ditching PAYG Subscriptions for a Pre-Paid Credit System in Laravel

2026-05-12T15:27:09+02:00

Pay-As-You-Go billing sounds ideal: users pay only for what they use, the pricing feels fair, and Stripe handles the metering for you. In practice it has a nasty flaw — you charge at the end of the cycle, but the card can be empty by then . Users...

Upgrade Clawdbot to Openclaw

2026-01-30T14:05:29+01:00

Clawdbot is super trending at the moment, and it just changed name two times in a row. Not it's called Openclaw, and with that new name comes a new binary. So if you want to stay up to date, you'll need to migrate from clawd/molt to openclaw ....

Auto-Claude is amazing, but unusable due to Claude AI infuriating usage limit

2026-01-22T16:18:14+01:00

Auto-Claude is amazing, but unusable due to Claude AI infuriating usage limit I really wanted to love Auto-Claude. On paper, it’s exactly the kind of tool I enjoy using: an app that lets you orchestrate multiple Claude sub-agents, each working i...

Recette pain et brioche - Panasonic Machine à pain

2026-01-22T16:18:23+01:00

Recette pour pain classic Dans l'ordre : 2 petites doses de levure 1,5 grande dose de sucre 450g farine (mettez des farines différentes pour avoir différents résultats) 300ml eau Noisette huile d'olive 1,5 petite dose de sel Prog...

Running Multiple Laravel Nightwatch Agents on the same server

2025-11-04T09:28:52+01:00

I've been using Laravel Nightwatch for a few weeks, and it’s already become a must-have for monitoring my apps. Observability? Check. Easy setup? Check. But when I tried running multiple Laravel projects on the same server, I hit a classic snag:...

How to fix CORS issue with Cloudflare R2 and Laravel Filament / Livewire

2026-05-26T00:12:17+02:00

Laravel Filament's Media Library plugin use Livewire's upload file javascript to send your file to your cloud disk. When using Cloudflare R2, you will probably get a CORS error and the upload will get canceled. In your R2 bucket settings, make s...

Dragon's Dogma 2 - Pitch Meeting

2025-07-22T10:31:04+02:00

INTRO: Dramatic music, zoom-in on a fake studio set labeled “Capcom HQ” SCREENWRITER GUY So you have a video game sequel for me? EXECUTIVE GUY Yes sir I do! It’s called Dragon’s Dogma 2. Remember that cult classic RPG from 2012 that had a lo...

To grieve deeply is to have loved fully

2025-05-16T14:37:55+02:00

To grieve deeply... Is to have loved fully

Introducing Volet: A Laravel Package for User Feedback

2025-06-03T12:26:43+02:00

Introducing Volet: A Laravel Package for User Feedback In the spirit of building lightweight and efficient solutions, I've developed Volet , a Laravel package designed to seamlessly integrate a user feedback widget into your app. Just like the si...

Unlimited Ratio on Torrent website with Ratio Master

2025-05-16T14:38:13+02:00

Getting a good seed/download ratio on private torrent website can be quite tricky. Especially when some of those website sell you "ratio boost" or similar pay-to-increase your ratio products, since they basically want you to buy a lot of...

How To Clone an AWS S3 Bucket

2025-02-20T12:13:24+01:00

You might have a ton of reason to do this so I'm not going to bore you with an introduction. If you don't have too much objects Then you might be able to do it from the AWS Console interface. Create the bucket (you must do this). Then go i...

QBUS - MQTT Quick Tutorial

2025-09-07T13:47:52+02:00

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're apparently know to be more "open" that other companies, and allow you more fr...

Fear makes the wolf look bigger

2025-04-29T14:11:03+02:00

Fear makes the wolf look bigger

DDOS By Web Crawlers

2025-03-19T18:14:22+01:00

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 paginated, and thus it creates a lot of urls. All those URLS are then indexed by Web crawlers, w...

Something Given

2024-01-03T16:37:30+01:00

Something Given Has No Value

Nuxt - How to set the default locale based on the logged user

2025-02-05T21:29:47+01:00

Let's combine two Nuxt 2 plugins : nuxt-i18n and @nuxtjs/auth First we need to create a new @nuxtjs/auth plugin. This is fairly easy ! Let's assume that the user's language preference is indicated in the language property of the user objec...

How to fix Expired HTTPS Certificates with Laravel Valet (MacOs)

2025-11-01T18:28:29+01:00

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 However, those certificates expire after some time and it's difficult to clean and or renew them...

Pretending to be strong

2024-01-03T16:49:58+01:00

Pretend to be strong until the day you forget you're pretending

Never stop trying

2025-11-01T18:35:40+01:00

Never stop trying, even when things get though, because they always get eventually. Don't give up.

Laravel Console Command to Automatically Restore a Backup from Spatie Laravel Backup Package

2025-11-01T18:36:08+01:00

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 practice to regularly trigger a "DB only" backup. What about automatic restore...

Laravel Valet - Too many parallel requests getting blocked

2025-11-01T18:36:53+01:00

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 they are communicating through an API. There's a page that makes a lot of requests in one g...

What is a Mixin in Vuejs ? Here's a simple explanation

2025-11-01T18:37:22+01:00

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 component. It's main objective is to prevent re-writing the same logic in multiple compon...

Presenters in PHP - How to clean your views

2025-11-01T18:37:59+01:00

How to use a Presenter class Super simple! class BookPresenter extends Presenter { public function __construct( public Book $book ) {} public function price() { return number_format($this->book->price, 2); } }...

Transformers in PHP

2025-11-01T18:38:38+01:00

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 in a re-usable way. For laravel developers, this is mostly done through Resources . Fo...

Repository pattern in PHP and Laravel

2025-11-01T18:39:49+01:00

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 controller methods using dependency injection. You use the class methods instead of running sql q...

Building your empire starts with small rocks

2025-11-02T09:36:56+01:00

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 want the same one. I want my own empire". The wise man thinks for a second and says &q...

Mandatory VS Code extensions for PHP Developers

2025-11-01T18:27:49+01:00

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 extensions that makes VS Code a robust editor. Here's the most important extensions you need...

LaravelPackages.net has been upgraded

2025-11-02T09:37:30+01:00

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 made for laravel. It's very useful when you are looking for a package and want to quickly...

PHP Course : Abstract Classes vs Interfaces

2025-11-02T09:37:59+01:00

TLDR; With Abstract Classes, you can define default behaviours that can be inherited by subclasses. That's not possible with interfaces. The template design pattent makes use of abstract classes. It defines default behaviour in the parent class but...

Discourse and Cloudflare : Error on port 443 on installation

2025-06-05T09:46:21+02:00

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 the discourse install commands. I was stuck on the very begining because the script said i...

PHP Course : What is a Singleton ?

2025-11-02T09:38:33+01:00

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 object. A singleton has more or less the same pros and cons than global variables. Even if...

What is a Service Container / IoC Container in PHP ?

2025-11-02T09:39:02+01:00

"IoC" stands for Inversion of Control and I already talked about it in my PHP Course : What Is Dependency Injection As for the "Container", also called Dependency Injection Container , Service Container , or DI Container ,...

Recette Bolognaise Tomates Fraiches

2024-05-15T18:40:36+02:00

Ingrédients 6 oignons 4 gousses d'ail 1kg haché 1.5kg Tomates 1 poivron rouge Carottes (autant qu'on veut) Courgette (autant qu'on veut) Préparation Dans la même casserole : Faire rissoler les 6 oignons et les 4 gousses d'ail...

Simple yet powerful search mixins for vuejs

2025-11-02T09:39:21+01:00

If you ever worked on a vuejs project, you surely one time build a list of data. And when you have this nice listing, you probably want to add a little search input on top. So that your users can type something and filter through the results. The...

Gitweet.io is now open source !

2025-11-02T09:40:35+01:00

Last week I decided to resurect an old project : gitweet.io I figured it was a good opportunity to try out Laravel Jetstream ! As this project only use github OAuth login, I disabled most of the Laravel Fortify features. It was all quite str...

What the Hell is Callback Hell in Javascript ?

2025-11-02T09:41:08+01:00

"Callback hell" is a term I've never heard off before discussing asynchronous javascript during a job interview. As soon as I got home, I checked it out. Basically, when you want to write asynchronous code in javascript, you end up usi...

How To Start Meditation - A Guide For Scrum Users

2024-01-24T17:04:50+01:00

A good friend came to me the other day and told me he wanted to start meditation. His problem, he said, was that as soon as he's trying to start and to empty his mind, he starts thinking about random stuff. I have the same issue. And I think most...

Before you do anything

2025-11-01T18:32:38+01:00

Never do anything that you cannot undo before you clearly understood what you won't be able to do after you do it

Small tips to improve the marketing side of your SaaS website

2025-11-02T09:41:29+01:00

You've finished building the next big SaaS and you want now to pimp your homepage to make it more attractive ? You're in the right place. Here's a few things you can do: Email database A good way to get your hand on a new customer is to get hi...

Lao Tseu

2025-11-02T09:42:10+01:00

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step -Lao Tseu

Nuxt : How to force download a file from an API endpoint.

2025-11-02T09:43:06+01:00

Sometimes when you build a SPA with an API, the Backend will not allow you to download a file by providing the absolute URL to that file, but will instead send a response containing the file 'blob'. How can you force download that file once the AP...

Nuxt: How to Load Translations from the BackEnd with an API

2025-11-02T09:43:35+01:00

In this quick tutorial we will see how we can use, in a Nuxt FrontEnd project, the translations that are store in a backend project. In your nuxt project you will want to fetch the nuxt-i18n package: yarn add nuxt-i18n In nuxt.config.js...

PHP on Mac with Homebrew: how to update php to the latest minor patch?

2025-11-02T09:44:18+01:00

With the latest release of Laravel 8 and laravel Nova 3.9, the minimum required PHP version is 7.4.9 On my mac I had php 7.4.7 To make this very small update, it's actually a bit more complicated that you might think. With homebrew you want to...

Macaronis Saumon Fumé et Légumes Verts

2025-11-02T09:44:58+01:00

Ingrédients 300g saumon fumé 1 courgette 1 poireau 1 brocoli Ciboulette 1 oignon Ail 200g fromage fondu à tartiner (philadelphia / madame loïk) 250ml crème légère 400g macaronis huile d'olive Bouillon légume sel et poivre...

My 2 cents on relationships

2025-11-02T09:47:11+01:00

You know when you meet someone who's single, you are trying to console them by saying things like "don't worry, there is a person for everyone". No matter who you are, there's somewhere, someone right for you. I don't think so I think...

7 Things That Will Make Your IT Company The Best Workplace, Ever

2025-11-02T09:47:51+01:00

Tech companies and startups are poping up at every corner nowadays, and they all try to offer "the best workplace ever" with ping pong tables, free snacks, etc. What it really proves is that it's becoming harder and harder to attract dev...

Leverage Dependency Inversion In Laravel Package Development

2025-11-02T09:48:27+01:00

Last week end I started working on an external package for my startup . Even though it's still in Work In Progress, the goal of the package is to be able to create and manage Printable Document on which you precisely position texts and images. On...

Very Simple SQL Dump In Laravel

2025-11-02T09:48:58+01:00

Sometimes when you're working on a specific feature, or maybe a specific page of your website, or even a unit test, you're wondering about the SQL queries that are executed. Laravel Eloquent is great and all but it can be difficult to clearly see...

Increase Your Raspberry RAM With Your Disk Storage

2025-11-02T09:49:26+01:00

I've got this raspberry pi 3 running from a very long time, and some time ago I installed Gekko, a crypto trader bot, on it. The problem is that with my 500Gb of RAM, the bot crashes after a few days (it is accumulating data in a wide range). Seem...

Everything About The "Use" Keyword In PHP

2025-11-02T09:52:16+01:00

You surely encountered this use keyword in php countless times, in different situations. Isn't that a bit funny that the same exact keyword is used in different contexts, for very different reasons? Let's review all places where this keyword ´us...

Receive An Email When Your Server Disk Is Almost Full

2025-11-02T09:52:52+01:00

A few weeks ago I had a very bad surprise in the morning when I saw that all my websites where down. The issue was because I had a bug in one of my project that created tons and tons of log files. After a few days I had 1TO of log files on my serv...

Switch Between Projects Like A Pro In Visual Studio Code

2025-11-02T09:54:07+01:00

Jungling between projects can sometimes be complicated when you're a developer. Dozens of different IDE windows open, searching in the "Open Recent..." option or even opening the file explorer each time you want to load a different folder...

Super Simple Laravel Newsletter Subscribers System

2025-11-02T09:54:33+01:00

If you're building a website where you create content, or where your users post content (like a job board or something), then sometimes you might want to send an email to a list of users to let them know new content is available. An easy solution...

How To Make Clean Forms with Laravel Blade

2025-11-02T09:55:59+01:00

Building forms in our application is one of those tasks that you repeat constantly. Almost every website has forms. We are basically just building forms, over and over. Fortunately with Laravel and the html engine Blade, building forms is already...

Releasing LaravelPackages.net - The Ultimate Laravel Packages Listing Website with Advanced Search Functionnality

2025-11-02T09:56:32+01:00

Whenever I start working on new application or a new feature, I wonder if someone from the Laravel Community already developed a package that I can use. And most of the time, the answer is yes . It's impossible to thanks the community enough for...

How To Remain Up To Date With Agile and Scrum Methodologies

2025-11-02T09:57:42+01:00

So you just read everything there is to read about Scrum and Agile, you passed the Scrum Master Certification, everything is great, you're a wonderful Scrum Master in your team. Congratulations! But now, you have to remember all of this, durin...

How To Tweet Automatically Based On A Git Commit Description

2025-11-02T20:05:31+01:00

If you've ever actively worked on a project, shipping new features every month, week or even days, you're probably informing your users about those new features, right? At least you want to. Informing your users that a new feature is available i...

How To Log Eloquent Database Queries In Laravel

2025-11-02T20:05:52+01:00

Today I was trying to debug a big Eloquent Query in one of my Laravel Applications, and I couldn't understand what was the issue. I wrote a feature test and hit the route endpoint to trigger the controller's code, to check the values returned by t...

How to Deploy Laravel Application on Dev and Production Based on Different Branches With Laravel Envoy

2025-11-03T10:04:23+01:00

So my typical workflow when working on a client's application is to have a "dev" environment on my server, and the production environment is sometimes also on my server. I push my code on the branch "develop" of the project's g...

My Most Important Motto

2025-11-02T20:04:44+01:00

The Journey Itself Is The Point

Recette pour petits pains

2025-11-04T09:24:51+01:00

Il y a déjà quelques mois j'ai commencé à faire mon pain moi même grace à une machine à pain relativement classique. Je suis devenu un gros fan de mon pain que je trouve bien meilleur que celui du super marché, et qui me coute du coup 5x moins cher....

Development & Server Setup 2019

2025-11-14T10:10:48+01:00

When I started developping LaravelPackages.net and it's search module, I quickly noticed that Algolia was not going to be enough for this project. There are dozen of hundreds laravel packages out there that I needed to index. I naturally checked E...

Recette Gratin de pâtes aux poireaux

2025-03-06T12:54:43+01:00

Ingrédients 1 oignon 3 blancs de poireaux Huile d'olive brins de thym 400g de pâtes courtes (conchigliettes / pennes) 250g ricotta 1 gousse d'ail 80g parmesan Sel et poivre Lardons ou poulet fumé en morceaux Préparation P...

PHP Course : SOLID - Dependency Inversion

2025-11-14T10:11:08+01:00

Last but not least, the Dependency Inversion Principle! There is a common misunderstanding that "Dependency Inversion" is similar to "dependency injection." However, the two are not the same, as I explained in What Is Dependen...

PHP Course : SOLID - Interface Segregation

2025-11-16T09:46:15+01:00

"Interface Segregation"... what the hell does that mean now... It seems like all those principles were named to bring more confusion than clarity right ? Yet they are very easy to understand once you look at the right example. This one i...

PHP Course : SOLID - Liskov Substitution

2025-11-16T09:46:30+01:00

Third principle in this SOLID serie, the Liskov Substitution principle was imagined by Barbara Liskov. Definition Mathematical definition: Let q(x) be a property provable about object x of type T. Then q(y) should be provable for objects y o...

PHP Course : SOLID - Open-Closed

2025-11-16T09:46:46+01:00

The second principle of S O LID is called Open-Closed , and helps developer to mature well designed code. This is a confusing one, but I'll try to make it easy to grasp. Definition First of all, this principle states that entities should be...

Comfort Zone

2026-04-28T21:00:31+02:00

Success happens out of your comfort zone. Original latin quote: Audentes Fortuna iuvat.

PHP Course : SOLID - Single Responsibility

2025-11-24T14:33:29+01:00

Have you ever heard about SOLID ? It is a collection of several Programming Principles that help developers write better code. There are five letters in SOLID, and each stand for a specific principle. In this article we will start with the first...

Dealing with Very Long Requests in Laravel

2025-12-13T12:58:33+01:00

Big headache problem that I encountered on some client's project, where I had to build a custom tool to import big ass excel files in the backoffice. When the excel is being imported, we erase everything in the database and insert every entry ag...

PHP Course : What Is Dependency Injection

2025-12-22T11:28:33+01:00

In this first PHP Lesson serie, we will cover what could be one of the first thing that any programmer must understand. It's probably the most basic yet complicated thing about programming, and it will help you greatly to understand how any framewor...

How To Localize Formatted Dates with Laravel And Carbon

2025-12-28T16:09:10+01:00

It's the second time in my carreer as a Laravel Developer that I had to struggle against this, so I decided to write the solution down for my future self 😅 First of all, here's what we are trying to achieve: now()->format('F'); // expected...

Fear To Fail

2026-01-06T09:29:38+01:00

When you are afraid to fail, you are afraid of something that did not happen yet. You predict your own failure, and by doing nothing, you eventually fail for real.

2018 Retrospective

2025-12-10T15:19:10+01:00

This is the first time that I'm writing such an "edito" about analyzing what happened in the past year, and what are the goals for next year. But this is also my first year that I'm fully freelance, and that I started building stuff on my...

TOP 20 Most Essential Laravel Packages

2026-01-03T14:30:52+01:00

Looking for the TOP 10 Most Essential Laravel Nova Packages? Click here! Laravel is a well known PHP Framework, super popular, with thousands of extraordinary features. Each year, Taylor Otwell (the creator of Laravel) releases new tools and p...

Renew Wildcard Certificate With Certbot

2026-01-23T15:17:42+01:00

First you need to install certbot via their github repository. Next, run this command line in the certbot folder: ./certbot-auto certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns-01 --email name@email.com --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.or...

Hippocrates once said

2026-04-22T10:45:08+02:00

“Before you heal someone, ask them if they're willing to give up the things that make them sick.”

Responsive Navigation Bar With Tailwind CSS And A Drop Of Javascript

2026-04-21T10:00:50+02:00

I've recently switched to Tailwind CSS and I must say it's really good ! Mainly because you can build anything and you have much more freedom than if you were using Bootstrap or Bulma. As for bulma.io, tailwind css does not provide any Javascript....

How To Build An Efficient and SEO Friendly Multilingual Architecture in Laravel - UPDATED GUIDE

2024-07-23T16:52:49+02:00

This is a remastered version of my previous tutorials How To Build An Efficient and SEO Friendly Multilingual Architecture For Your Laravel Application and Laravel 5 And His F*cking non-persistent App SetLocale . This update was needed so we co...

Super Easy Way to Gather Visitors Feedback With Laravel

2026-04-20T13:29:39+02:00

As you surely know, tons of website today features a floating bubble, often in the bottom right of your screen, that you can click to talk with the website administrator. On other websites, you can't really talk to them, but you can send them mess...

How MMORPG UI Inspired Me To Create A Job Board Website

2025-12-04T09:32:52+01:00

I used the play a lot of Video Games. I still kinda do, but when I think about it, when I was a teenager, I spent hundreds of hour playing MMORPG's. Now, I play MMO from time to time, but not very often. In the first days of conceiving the idea...

Vagrant - Error when Configuring and Enabling Network Interfaces

2026-01-19T10:15:42+01:00

This is a weird issue that appeared few weeks ago on my Windows machine, on which I use Virtual Box and Vagrant to run & test Laravel Projects. When executing "vagrant up" in the Laravel Homestead directory, everything crashes and th...

The 4 Roles You Should Expect From A Consultant

2026-01-19T10:14:24+01:00

Whatever you read on the web about consulting and what consultants actually do, which is a huge ton of bullet points, let me summarize it for you. Free of charge 😉 Of course, the actual complete list of tasks you should expect from a consultant g...

The Worst Job Interview Of My Life

2026-01-02T10:27:34+01:00

So I was looking for a new consultancy assignement for 2019 and I got this interview in a company, for a developer position. I arrive at the company's office, accompanied by a HR manager. She rings the interphone and announce that we are there....

How To Convert A Video File To GIF with PHP

2024-02-07T11:21:21+01:00

First you will need to install the linux package ffmpeg sudo apt-get install ffmpeg In your PHP Project, install the php-ffmpeg package composer require php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg Assuming you have the full local path of the video to co...

How To Build A Super Light Flash Notification Component In VueJS And Laravel

2025-12-11T08:04:24+01:00

Today another tutorial where we are going to build a flash notification system for your VueJS application. It works both with Single Page Application (vue-router) and with classic Laravel app with a bit of VueJS components 😉 This is almost an all...

TOP 10 Most Essential Laravel Nova Packages

2025-12-31T15:41:50+01:00

The truth is that, even if there are hundreds of Nova Packages out there, I really don't think they are that useful . They may make your life easier, and they may even be a requirement from your client. So I'll try to spare you some time if you're...

Don't Give Up

2025-12-24T11:05:01+01:00

Text by Robin Hobb , famous english book author and mother, about the difficulty of writing her books while parenting. This applies to every type of profession and hobbies, so I thought it would be a good idea to share it here. Not long ago,...

How to build a Single Facet Refinement Toggle Component in Algolia Instant Search with VueJS

2025-12-02T15:08:01+01:00

One the biggest struggle I've had while building Find A Maker was the implementation of the roles toggle button that filters the jobs thanks to Algolia Instant Search with VueJS. The defaut Facet Refinement component allow you to build a list of...

Kill Chromium Browser from command line

2025-11-21T13:27:35+01:00

If you're managing a remote device that runs some kind of application on Chromium, you're probably looking to restart Chromium Browser when you deploy a new version of your application. The easiest way to that is this single command: pkill chro...

To use a package or to build it from scratch ?

2025-11-21T13:26:44+01:00

Many times in your awesome developer life, when you're starting to think about how you're going to build the next feature for a website, you wonder "is there a package for that ?". And most of the time, there is one! Should you use one...

The Feeling of Getting Your First Customer

2025-11-21T13:26:12+01:00

LOOK MA'! FIRST CUSTOMER!! As you way know I've been working a lot on webradio.io , a SaaS app that allows webradio owners to create and manage unique looking, responsive, audio players, with awesome audio visualizers. For a long time it was...

Building A Successful Startup Alone Is Hard

2025-11-21T13:25:47+01:00

In 2013 I launched my first Startup. It was quite a big deal. I was only 21 and I quit my job after only one year (it was my first job). The Startup wasn't too original, it was basically a web agency for other startups in Paris... We were 2 frie...

VueJS Tooltip and PurgeCSS might give you some troubles in production

2025-11-19T15:38:51+01:00

While I'm currently working on my new project findamaker.io , I noticed a strange behavior in production. To put things into context, I'm using Laravel Mix Purge Css by Spatie , a laravel-mix plugin that lighten your css files. And I'm also us...

Routing issue with Laravel Nova and a VueJS SPA

2025-11-19T15:39:36+01:00

As I was installing Laravel Nova into one of my new projects, which is a full VueJS Single Page Application with vue-router, I encountered a weird issue: When I headed to the Nova admin panel, everything was empty. The layout is there but the cont...

Progressive Web App with Laravel Mix

2025-11-06T12:59:34+01:00

Story short, here's how your webpack.mix.js should look like: let mix = require('laravel-mix'); let SWPrecacheWebpackPlugin = require('sw-precache-webpack-plugin'); mix.webpackConfig({ plugins: [ new SWPrecacheWebpackPlugin({...

How I Went From No Diploma To 10k Per Month

2025-11-06T12:59:04+01:00

This is the story of my professional career. From when I was 18 year old to this day. This is my story. Get ready because it might be god damn long. School When I was 18 I started to go to the university. Well it was not really a university,...

Super Easy Way to Authenticate an API User in Your Laravel Application Without Using Laravel Passport

2025-11-06T11:56:23+01:00

Since Laravel 5.3, Laravel Passport is the main way to authenticate an API consumer with an access token. I say it's the main way because it's the only way described in the Laravel documentation. Simply try to search "auth:api" on th...

Recette Soupe

2025-11-06T11:55:29+01:00

Ingrédients 600 grammes de légumes divers un gros oignon ou deux petits 100 g de branches de céleri une pomme de terre ou une courgette 1L d'eau 1 cube bouillon Viande ou Légume feuilles de laurier Thym Préparation Fair...

Being a Laravel Freelancer, Find Clients, Hire Developers

2025-11-06T11:54:53+01:00

Since 2014 I'm working as a Laravel Freelance. With the help of a good friend and associate, I was able to get two or three long term clients for which I'm working regularly. Last year I met another Laravel developer who wanted to start as a freel...

How To Remember Your Git Credentials Forever

2026-03-28T09:26:32+01:00

Tired of always having to type your login and password when executing git pull on your server? So do I. Here's an helper command that will remember your credentials so you don't have to type anything than your pull command. This is particularl...

Recette Croissants

2025-11-06T11:52:47+01:00

Ingrédients 290g farine non blanchie ou type 55 25g de sucre en poudre 5g de sel 6g de levure instantanée 10g de miel 50g de lait frais 125g d'eau à 30° 25g de beurre très mou 125g de beurre à 20° 1 oeuf Préparation Prene...

Automatic Deployment of a Laravel Application with Buddy.works

2025-11-06T11:53:25+01:00

I guess we all know Laravel Forge and Laravel Envoyer, which is probably the best combination of hosting and deploying Laravel applications. However, maybe you don't use Laravel Forge because you have your own dedicated server on which you host se...

The Decorable Trait or How To Simply Attach and Upload an Image to a Model

2026-03-06T12:13:59+01:00

When developping a web application you are probably working with users, and those users can maybe create content on your plateform by filling forms, etc. Or maybe you're simply building a blog with posts. Either way you most likely worked with som...

How To Generate Code Coverage on Laravel Homestead

2026-03-12T09:38:42+01:00

TDD is cool right ? PHPUnit implementation in Laravel is so great that it makes TDD even cooler. When building your application you may wonder : did I test everything ?? And how can I make sure that everything is tested ? That's where PHPUnit Co...

Why you need to only run composer install

2026-03-24T11:31:59+01:00

First of all, the title of the article is misleading. You don't have to forget about all other composer command obviously. We are talking here about composer install and composer update . Here's the quick truth : you never should run composer u...

Easy way to log all SQL queries in Laravel Application

2026-04-09T10:40:37+02:00

Every developer, when working on a project, start at some point wandering about the performances of his application. In the Laravel world, the most frequent question you may have is "are my sql queries fast enough ?". If Eloquent is doing...

Add Environment Variables In Laravel Homestead

2026-04-30T16:15:42+02:00

As it may seem an easy thing to do, and to be honnest : it is, creating environment variables in your Homestead Virtual Machine is something you cannot find in the documentation. While it is missing from the official Laravel Documentation, you can...

How to use Laravel Dusk with Homestead on a Windows machine

2026-05-01T17:19:00+02:00

Alongside Laravel 5.4 update, a new tool came up : Laravel Dusk. If you were used to run tests on your Laravel application, and particularly "Feature tests", you are most likely used to write test cases in which you can actually fill for...

How To Create a Project Budget

2026-04-28T11:50:43+02:00

Here is a basic guideline to help you reminder some important things when estimating a Project Budget. What's a Project Budget ? The total "projected" costs to complete a project during a specific period of time with a specific result....

Find all corrupted mp3 files on Linux

2024-01-24T17:20:00+01:00

I encountered a small issue last week, while updating my music library. I noticed that some new mp3 files that I added were corrupted and thus could not be read by my radio. The problem is that I do not remember what song exactly is corrupted and...

Transfer files from a Raspberry Pi to your android phone over WiFi with Python

2026-04-13T10:10:10+02:00

Today I'll show a bit of python that could help you remotely manage your Android device. The goal here is to setup an SSH connection between a Raspberry Pi and an Android device in order to transfer files from your local environment (a NAS for examp...

Tidy up mp3 files in per-artist directory

2026-03-23T18:36:23+01:00

There is quite an amount of work behind my radio stream . I download lots of new music file everyday, and at some point, I need to transfer all these mp3 files to my NAS, in order to add the new songs to the pool of songs used by the Pi Radio ....

How To Build An Efficient and SEO Friendly Multilingual Architecture For Your Laravel Application

2026-04-27T14:23:59+02:00

Hey! A new version of this tutorial is available ! In the new one, I use Spatie's translatable package, and I provide a cleaner and better implementation! Go to the new tutorial ! ! This article was updated to match Laravel 5.4 One day I wr...

The Ultimate Like System For Laravel Thanks To Many to Many Polymorphic Relationships

2024-12-04T21:27:29+01:00

Several months ago I wrote an article on How to create a Simple Like System For Laravel . In the comment of this article, a cool guy asked me about using a "Many to Many Polymorphic Relationship" for this "Like" logic. I found...

How to Mix With Your Traktor

2026-03-26T13:30:54+01:00

Things to remember: Every song has a structure of 16 or 32 beats Once your first song...

Music: Koloto - Fay

2026-04-24T14:55:44+02:00

The tell of a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and growth.

Minimum Resistance Calculation

2026-04-09T10:55:30+02:00

So if you have a LED that should be powered by 3.2v and 0.024 amps, and a 9v battery, the calculation should be: (9 - 3.2) / 0.024 And that gives you 240 ohms Bonus : Watts Calculation If you want to calculate the watts of...

AngularJS: Forget About $broadcast() And Say Hi To The SharedContextService

2026-04-07T09:26:53+02:00

In AngularJS there one thing that you cannot do properly: Call a controller's method from another controller. In order to do that you must use $broadcast() and $watch() in both controllers. In my opinion, you should avoid using all these $ methods f...

Recette Quiche Maison

2024-02-27T18:01:41+01:00

Ingrédients 1 Oignon 1 Courgette 1 Poivron Lardons (100g) Pâte feuilletée 2 ou 3 œufs Lait Crème légère Farine Sel / Poivre Fromage de Chèvre Fromage rappé Huile d'olive Préparation Ajouter l'oignon, la courgette et...

Life Lessons Episode 04 - Random Thoughts About Being

2026-04-28T21:17:11+02:00

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. It is...

Some New Tips About PHP7

2026-03-13T09:52:24+01:00

It's been several months that PHP 7 was released, and the latests frameworks already upgraded to be compatible with this version. Laravel Homestead, the OOTB server environment is now up to date as well, so all your new projects will run on a PHP...

How To Detect That AdBlock Is Enabled On Your Website

2026-03-16T10:27:04+01:00

You are running a website that contains a bit of advertisments, exactly like this blog, hoping that it will be enough to cover your hosting costs, but it's not working very well because most of your visitors do not see these ads ? Especially thanks...

Cinema: 31 by Rob Zombie

2026-03-28T10:34:51+01:00

It's been a very long time since I wrote a movie review, and I kinda miss that. Yesterday evening I went to the BIFFF in Brussels to see the last Rob Zombie film: 31 . To put things in context, you have to know that, at this Film Festival, the...

The Indian Bear Trap: Or How To Stop The Cycle of Violence

2026-03-18T14:47:06+01:00

In Canada, Native Americans used to hunt bears thanks to a very simple yet powerful trap: It consists of a large stone coated with honey, hanging from a tree branch with a rope. When a bear sees what he thinks to be an attractive food, he reaches...

Life Lessons Episode 03 - 7 Rules To Live By

2026-04-28T21:15:18+02:00

Seven Cardinal Rules For Life Make Peace With Your Past so it won't disturb your present. What Other People Think Of You is none of your business Time Heals Almost Everything. Give it time. No One Is In Charge Of Y...

The Parkinson Law

2026-04-07T09:56:40+02:00

The Parkinson Law (not to confond with the disease) wants that, the bigger a company gets, the more this company hire unskilled but overpaid people. Why? Simply because the top management fears the arrival of powerful rivals. And the best way to...

AngularJS Directives - The Reminder You Need To Bookmark

2026-03-28T10:32:37+01:00

Angular.js is probably the most known Javascript Framework, at close range with React.js A few months ago I started to learn about Angular, and I've made a brand new website from scratch, at my job. So we can say I turbo-learned this framework. I...

Life Lessons Episode 02 - Quotes From Bernard Werber

2026-04-28T21:14:12+02:00

Today I offer you a small set of quotes from the famous french author Bernard Werber. These are initially in french so I'm going to translate them for you :) FR : Ne te plains pas de l'obscurité. Deviens une petite lumière. EN : Do not co...

Life Lessons Episode 01

2026-04-07T11:14:02+02:00

I've always wanted to store somewhere a compilation of all quotes, speeches and poems that I'm inspired by. It seems that this blog is the perfect spot. So I'll start a series of articles under a new category : Life Lessons. Feel free to be inspir...

To Be Strong On The Outside Or On The Inside ?

2026-03-19T11:37:10+01:00

Ask yourself this question: is it better to have the skeleton inside or outside the body ? When the skeleton is outside your body, it shapes a protective shield around your body. The flesh is safe from any external danger but becomes flange and al...

The Vagrant Setup File You Were Looking For

2026-03-10T13:23:42+01:00

Several weeks ago, I started to use vagrant in order to work on my Laravel Projects. The purpose was to avoid wamp bugs , and mostly avoid having to run Server Side technologies on a windows OS... Now, if the setup of the Vagrant software is st...

Register Form Macros Easily in Laravel 5

2026-03-02T10:51:40+01:00

While working on a new project at work I had to create a custom form input. The goal was to have a select list of the days of the week. If there is already a form method to do so with the Months of the year, there's no default method for the weekday...

Email Yourself When Someone Encounter An Error In Your Laravel Application

2026-03-04T13:54:07+01:00

Did you ever feel anxious about deploying a large application in production for the first time ? You are afraid that there are still some bugs somewhere, because you don't have a full testing team to report everything to you ? And you wonder : "...

HCP #4 Control your Yamaha Home Receiver from command line

2026-03-02T10:52:16+01:00

In the previous domotic posts, we have seen how to use the Raspberry Pi like a broadcasting radio stream. Now, this is great to listen to you music from anywhere, using a computer or an audio software. But if you want to listen to your radio str...

Simple Like System with Laravel 5

2024-08-16T15:07:12+02:00

Update: A new and better way to build a Like System in Laravel is described in this article Yo yo guys ! Today I'll be giving you a new tutorial on how to build a quite simple "Like" system onto your Laravel 5 application. This "...

HCP #3 Turn your Raspberry Pi into a broadcasting audio stream

2026-02-25T14:44:55+01:00

What I was attempting to do here, is to use my Pi to access the musics stored on my NAS (Synology), and play the music files, in order to stream the audio flux to an Icecast Server. Now, you may of course need the Icecast Server, and I personally...

HCP #2 Access Synology Shared Folders from Raspberry Pi

2026-02-20T10:14:47+01:00

If, like me, you own a Synology server and a raspberry pi, and they are both connected to your local network, you might want to find a way to access the Synology shared folders, from your Pi. Should be easy right ? Indeed it is, and they are sev...

Wamp problems on Windows 10

2026-02-11T09:12:01+01:00

After upgrading to the very nice Windows 10, you might experience some problem regarding WAMP Server. For my part, I got a lot of troubles trying to starting wamp. The little icon in the taskbar wouldn't go green ... Also, when I performed a fre...

HCP #1 Intro

2026-02-11T09:11:08+01:00

Helloooo everyone and welcome to the first part of House Configuration Project ! Ok I know, there is nobody here.. Let me imagine being famous for a while.. It's been a while since I wanted to start my own domotic configuration, and begin to c...

Easiest way to bind events to your models

2026-02-05T12:57:54+01:00

In this article I'll explain what I think is the easiest and cleanest way to bind events to your models in Laravel 5. In fact, I am working on a new project right now and I needed to implement a notification feature to the platform. I was thinking...

Combattre, refouler, fuir

2026-02-18T12:01:08+01:00

Notre condition d’être vivant pourrait se définir par un simple concept : le libre arbitre. Si la plupart des philosophes sont d'accord sur ce principe fondamental, peu se concentrent sur les conséquences d'une telle fatalité: La rencontre incessant...

BRNS - Any House

2026-02-14T15:16:51+01:00

Cette semaine est sorti le nouveau clip de BRNS, dans lequel joue Martin Colet, mon beau-frère ! Son interprétation est totalement géniale et a fait rire toute la famille :) Du coup, je partage un maximum.. Des bises