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My "
@phpstorm
for Laravel Developers" series is now 100% complete and free to watch. Learn about:
- Automatic refactoring
- AI support
- The Laravel Idea plugin
- Xdebug integration
- Testing workflow
...and lots more. 👍
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To keep with my yearly tradition, I will once again recommend that you make an end of the year photo book for your family. Costs about $100, but well worth it.
I wish I started doing this twenty years ago.
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@MKBHD
Nobody without children wants them. But you make three kids, and you instantly find yourself watching "best minivan 2024" Youtube videos.
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15 years ago, I published a series called "30 Days to Learn jQuery." I have no clue why, but it was ridiculously popular - to the point that I still receive emails about it today.
I want to do something similar for Laravel, as part of the upcoming Laravel 11 release.
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You're tired of AI tweets. I am, too. But it really is amazing that we all inherited a free (or nearly free) personal virtual assistant.
As a very small business owner, things like this save *so* much time.
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Little
@tailwindcss
tip. Take five minutes and make a little component that displays the current screen breakpoint in your local environment. Super useful.
Laracasts example: see bottom right.
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I think Laravel should include an "artisan tail" command out of the box. It's one of those conveniences that I manually add to every project.
Running into a 500 error in production? Run "php artisan tail" and instantly see the logs in real-time.
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PHP folks, if you wanna play around with the new Text-To-Speech OpenAI features, here's your hello world example.
Step 1. composer require open-php/laravel
Step 2. Set OpenAI API key in .env.
Step 3. Make request (screenshot).
Step 4. Profit
MP3:
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A really useful technique for slightly larger projects is to build and organize app features as if you were making a Composer package.
Group all of your related models, controllers, listeners, commands, etc. under the same directory and namespace.
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My wife sold this portable green screen of ours today, and pasted a clip-art smiley face... for my privacy.
Do I tell her that I publicly share my dumb face on camera almost every day of my life?
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Actual web development isn't solving stressful timed job interview challenges.
It's feeling like an idiot while wasting the first two hours of your day on an awkward tooltip bug...when it all worked just fine yesterday.
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It's mean to say, but *most* developers want to go with the flow. They're not overly opinionated. "Oh, this is the new way we do it? Okay, fine. Cool."
Every programming community desperately needs a handful of prominent people who are willing to say "No, that's dumb."
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@adamwathan
My guess is you're paying so much that the huge majority of potential applicants assume they're not qualified for the job. Probably the opposite of what you intended haha.
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I've been working on this free "30 Days to Learn Laravel" course for about a month now. Getting close to wrapping it up!
Today, Day 25, learn why understanding queues is much simpler than you think.
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There are plenty of things I don't like about programming.
But the "put headphones on, shut out the world, and see if you can get this feature pushed to production by the end of the day" aspect is 👑.
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I finally read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" this last month. So that makes me the gazillion + 1 person to read it.
But for those of you who haven't read it, I jotted down the key points as I worked through it... if you want the cliff notes haha.
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Do you ever find yourself leaning in really close to your screen, attempting to fix a 1-pixel CSS discrepancy... and questioning what the hell you're doing with your life?? :)
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The most up-to-date Laravel 11 course in the world begins today on Laracasts.
"30 Days to Learn Laravel"
I'm about to send out the Day 1 email blast. If you'd like me to email you each day with the next episode, add your email address here. 🔥
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Last night, my young daughter said to me: "Daddy, why don't we cuddle, stay up late, and watch Rocky 4 with popcorn and candy.
And that was the very moment I realized my daughter has been manipulating her father for her own benefit.
...Anyways, they enjoyed the movie.
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It's time to refresh our biannual Laravel From Scratch series. This will be the best iteration yet.
This time around, it will be called:
"30 Days to Learn Laravel."
Beginning in February, I'll personally email you each day with one short video lesson.
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I do my best to explain Cross-Site-Request Forgery in today's update to "30 Days to Learn Laravel." (Day 16)
Watch it here for free:
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This is very sad for me to hear. Tuts+ Code (originally Nettuts) was one of the first educational sites I ever helped out with - back around 2007.
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text-wrap: balance is one of my favorite new CSS features. I use it everywhere.
Browser support is still a little spotty, but should work nicely in Firefox + Chrome, and gracefully degrades for older browsers.
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This is cool. Safari recently added an "Open in Simulator" button/shortcut when you open a page in responsive mode.
If you want to see how your site *actually* looks on an iPhone, the simulator is a must.
(Just make sure you open Xcode at least once to install the mobile…
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I was happy to hear
@taylorotwell
say that he sometimes listens to music from Interstellar when working.
If you want to feel like the probably-not-so-essential thing you're working on has immense importance, put on headphones and listen to this while you work.…
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Today, I drew a straight line from introversion, to better business, to solving the problems of the family.
(And one Pennywise the Clown pitstop.)
All prepped to read when you're bored this weekend. 👍
"An Introvert-Friendly Business Model"
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I was today years old when I learned that my son thinks I'm a 15-year-old loser who looks at his iPad all day for work.
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Monthly reminder that, if you can just be reasonably reliable, you instantly jump to the top of the workforce.
An intermediate, super-dependable person is *significantly* more appealing than an expert flake.
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Multiply this by 100, and you get a glimpse of what it's like to record a typical programming screencast. Sometimes, it feels like I don't know how to speak English. 🥴
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Laravel's validation rule classes needn't be limited to basic checks. You can throw API calls in there as well.
I show an example of this very thing (using the OpenAI API) today on Laracasts.
Free to watch here: ⬇️
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I'm going to give TypeScript one more try this week.
But, in terms of onboarding, that massive tsconfig.json file that everyone tells you to copy+paste is not a good start.
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This quick and silly little Codebreaker tool I made for my kids has gotten far more use than many more complex things I've made over the years haha.
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One Laravel thing that I think would be cool is to have a way to swap out the default styling for Laravel notification email templates with minimal effort.
I don't want to spend a bunch of time designing custom HTML for emails, so I put it off every month.
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One of the most useful superpowers you can have as an adult is a willingness to get rid of stuff.
It's almost impossible to avoid. As you get older, you accumulate more and more junk. "Welp, so-and-so gave us this big thing for Christmas... so now we will store it for decades.
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Do I tell him that driving in endless circles on your toy police motorcycle while gathering paper to write your family fake tickets, without a worry in the world... is peak life?
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Day 9 of "30 Days to Learn Laravel" just went live on Laracasts.
"Day 9: Meet Eloquent"
Just for fun, I've uploaded the entire video here as well. Give it a watch (or else). 👍
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Look… I love my wife, but this is unfortunate and problematic scheduling.
And yes, I’m a little kid trapped in an adult’s body. I know.
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I got to play with the Vision Pro yesterday for about an hour.
It's the most impressive and futuristic tech I've ever used in my life, and it's not even close.
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We're hiring a video editor/producer for Laracasts to work on all sorts of fun projects. 🚀
Most of my pals here are programmers, but if you know someone who might be interested, please share. :)
- Full-Time
- Fully Remote
- Maximum Freedom
- Pays $90k per year…
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If you're in your late 30s to mid-40s...
School's finished. Your best friend comes over. Bulky TV on the carpet. Nintendo 64 with four controllers plugged in, all different colors.
You sit down two feet from the TV, turn it on, and hear this music... 😎…
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You know that thing where a frontend component can be presented in two different ways, so you accept a prop and then use that to conditionally adjust the layout/CSS?
I've done this countless times, and repeatedly learned that it's usually better to just create two components.
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Just added a new DNS A-record for a Laracasts subdomain.
...Now, I wait for hours - with no feedback whatsoever - to see if it worked, or if I made some kind of mistake.
Every time.
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Life moves pretty fast.
One minute you're condescendingly teaching your parents how to use the computer, and the next... you're old and can't figure out how the kids add links to Instagram posts.
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The first four episodes of a short series I recorded this week, where we build a fun code-breaker app for kids, are now up.
Here's episode 2 in full, where we scaffold the initial Laravel + Livewire + Tailwind app.
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Let's say you woke up with $100M in your bank account.
What would you do with your life? Skip the buying stuff part. Would you quit your job? Would you start your own business? Would you retire? How would you ensure that you don't go insane?
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float: left/right was such a key component to writing CSS fifteen years ago. It's strange that I almost *never* use that property these days. Still has occasional uses, but exceedingly rare.
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Gather round, kids. Grandpa is gonna tell you what video games used to be like back in my day. :)
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If you needed to implement powerful search for your next app, would you use Algolia, TypeSense, Meilisearch, or something else?
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Learn about authentication, session token regeneration, Blue's Clues, and how to make an Old Fashioned in 30 seconds...today on Laracasts. 🤷♂️
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What a game. 😍😍
If you’re not playing this, you really are missing out on something special.
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It is to the immediate financial benefit for content creators to cover new technologies as quickly as possible.
For everyone else, the opposite is probably true. There's almost never any reason to dive into a technology on day one, unless you're a super enthusiast.
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I've had so much fun implementing Adrian's Fallout-inspired theme for our yearly
@laracasts
Black Friday sale.
I'm going to push the sale live in just a minute, but will officially announce and send annoying email blasts on Monday.
Apologies in advance. 💣😬
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Laracasts Podcast
#149
is now ready for your viewing and listening pleasure. All 13 of you know.
(Gained a listener last week, so that's good.)
"The Stories We Tell Ourselves"
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We've received around ten applications for this job so far. Eight of them did not follow the basic instructions on the job listing page.
I can't emphasize this enough. It's not hyperbole. If you read and follow the instructions for a job listing, and you research/use the name of…
We're hiring a video editor/producer for Laracasts to work on all sorts of fun projects. 🚀
Most of my pals here are programmers, but if you know someone who might be interested, please share. :)
- Full-Time
- Fully Remote
- Maximum Freedom
- Pays $90k per year…
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Who would you say is the most prominent remaining publisher of technical books? I've been toying with the idea of writing "The Laracasts Book." A written, massive guide to build Laravel apps from A-Z.
It'll take me a year, and I'm not interested in self-publishing this one.
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Do you have any specific ritual that helps to get you in the programming "zone"?
Examples: Adjust office lights to be more cozy, headphones, 24-hour rainfall Youtube video in background, turn hat around backwards, hot drink.
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@steve_tenuto
@PlanetScale
Steve, I’m in the market for someone with this very skill set for
@laracasts
. DM if you’d like to discuss.
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Excluding Caleb, who should we hire to make the next great
@LaravelLivewire
course for Laracasts?
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One thing I've learned after having 2 kids is that your personality is 95% baked in at birth. I always assumed that much of it is dependent on your upbringing, but I think that's a vanishingly small component.
You can observe the personality differences when they're weeks old.
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I'm looking for examples of particularly clean and easy-to-read blogs in the technical space. Doesn't have to be super elaborate or fancy.
Reply with a link if something comes to mind. Thanks! :)
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@Stealth40k
Amazing that Pikmin 4 is the lowest-rated game on your list...and it's exquisite.
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It's Friday, so I sat down and wrote about being a "Business Impostor."
Give it a read, if you're also a developer-turned-business-owner. 😬
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When creating a honeypot to avoid spam, do you think it would make sense to fake a 500 internal error response?
In this case, why provide any feedback at all that the validation failed? Just abort and make it look like the site doesn't work haha.
Decent approach? Useless?
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I'm not sure how social media survives this sort of thing. I've seen estimates that 80% of all the content is AI or bot driven. Sounds high to me, but still...
In the next five years, I wonder if we'll see people largely exit to more traditional invite-only private chats.
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One thing I'm trying to learn and memorize... if you run any kind of small business or have a product to sell, you're almost certainly not marketing as much as you should.
This last week, you probably should have focused exclusively on marketing and nothing else.
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Never thought about it as a kid, but now that I'm an adult home owner... Harry turning on the sinks and flooding the house before he leaves is the most dark and cold blooded thing that happens in Home Alone.
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@PovilasKorop
Diminishing returns, for sure. A person who makes $300k a year isn't any happier than someone who earns $200k.
But $90k versus $20k...massive increase in happiness.
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If you're already working with Laravel Volt, what's your preferred style? Functional or class-based?
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Everyone,
@aarondfrancis
's is really good and helped me improve.
He's also handsome and funny and smart.
@aarondfrancis
Your move...
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Today on the
@laracasts
Snippet podcast, we discuss why it's vital to give an idea its due before shutting it down.
Laracasts Snippet, Ep 146
Juggle the Idea
(There's also an optional video version this time around.)
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One key thing I've learned about habit building is that following the routine is more important than knocking it out of the park each time. Even a horrible, short workout when you're feeling off is worth it... if only because you don't break the pattern.
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Is today the day we get rid of those programming books from 2007 that have been sitting untouched on our office shelves?
(...Nah)
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I wrote the original billing code for Laracasts before Spark was a thing, and had been maintaining that code painfully for years.
I finally gave up a couple years ago. The new Stripe APIs, all the international requirements, and the time investment to keep up on everything was…
Managing your own billing and checkout for your apps locally used to be a lot simpler, but over the years, it’s gotten a lot more complex.
@taylorotwell
explains why Stripe checkout is a valuable option.
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For all the public worry, I'd sure love to meet these folks who are supposedly using Tailwind before they learn CSS.
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I've been booking my family's road trip vacation this week, and
@NotionHQ
- which I avoided up until this point - has been incredibly useful for daily planning/reservations/receipts/todos.
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Super convenient gift tips: sit down with your spouse - when it's not a holiday - and ask them for all of their sizes. Get everything: jean, dress, ring, bra, shirt, shoe, underwear, etc. Write it in your notes app so you never have to worry about this crap next bday/holiday.
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@taylorotwell
If the results are close, then that probably means they're not even remotely close in real life. Twitter slants heavily toward early adopters.
But as long as it's crystal clear that --phpunit is an option, I think it would be cool and safe to default to Pest. 👍
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Is there anything preventing one of us from asking ChatGPT to write 1,000 articles/tutorials for the top 1,000 common questions for your field of study?
And then you blog them + offer ad space.
Once API access for GPT-4 is open, this will all be trivial to do...and automate.
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To those of you who have also been waiting a half-decade to play Starfield...tonight's the night.
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There are so many web apps for money management, but it seems like none of them quite nails it.
What are you using for tracking spending, automatically importing transactions from your bank + credit cards, reviewing monthly budget/reports, investment planning, etc?
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OpenAI embeddings and vectors and cosine similarity are all very new to me. So I'm still in the amazed phase that there's a formula for calculating relatedness.
Here, it correctly identifies that "PHP" is closer to "JavaScript" and "variable," and less to "garbage truck."
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I'd swear that Laravel had a string helper function that created proper AP-style headlines for articles or blog posts. Is there nothing like this in the framework?
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I spent all weekend tinkering, and am now in a fairly good spot. I *do* see a lot of value in adopting TypeScript.
I've realized my main issue is with the onboarding. It's brutal. So much tooling...and configuration files...and squiggly lines...on top of a new syntax.
And I should say... I'm still not sold by the TypeScript evangelists. So far, it feels like a fabulous way to spend all day staring at squiggly red lines while not making progress on the actual *thing* you're trying to build. 😬
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"Can you please take off those f**king goggles? I'm trying to talk to you."
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And I should say... I'm still not sold by the TypeScript evangelists. So far, it feels like a fabulous way to spend all day staring at squiggly red lines while not making progress on the actual *thing* you're trying to build. 😬
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Not the fault of the generation, imo. The responsibility rests entirely on the school system and parents.
At no point in my 4 years of high school did any of the teachers discuss why it's essential that we learn about history.
Instead, it was the usual fluorescent-light-soaked…
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@jackmcdade
is the most original UI designer I've ever met. Nobody builds websites like him.
Big congrats to him on getting this new course out the door. I've been looking forward to it for over a year now. Will start watching this weekend. 👍
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Luke recorded the *entire* process of building this new Prompts feature.
Will be available to watch on
@laracasts
in May. 🚀
Today's Laravel release introduces Prompt "forms".
Prompt forms allow users to gracefully go back and correct the previous prompt.
No need to cancel the entire command and start all over again. ❤️
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It's cool that your email app now includes an AI button to translate one sentence into a full multi-paragraph email.
But trust me....we customer service people would prefer the one-sentence version.
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The “It’s my job to protect developers from harm” mindset is so strange to me. I’ve seen it over and over again for a decade now. We’re all adults. Saying you don’t like something isn’t harmful. Sheesh. 🙃
And I totally don't mind if Taylor doesn't like and doesn't use `final`, it's his choice. But it's about responsibility. He could say "Personally I don't see value in `final` and don't use it", instead he made statement that is harmful to the
#PHP
community 😩.
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Wives, what's a *really* good present your spouse has given you?
I've been married over a decade. I'm out of fresh ideas. 🙈
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PHP developers MUST be protected from bad practices. We can't have them making decisions for themselves. No, no.
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Is there an audio + sound effect equivalent to something like ?
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What are your thoughts on old school hard boundaries around your layout container (beyond about 1500px or so) in 2023? Let it go white all the way to edge?
I dunno. I kinda like the traditional approach.
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