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You can use temporary download URLs for your cloud storage resources to prevent unwanted access. For example, when a user wants to download a file, we redirect to an s3 resource but have the URL… Read more: [code-snippet] Create temporary download URLs in Laravel

This one is for the cases where you may not want to use your incremental DB id in your url. So if now you have something like example.com/1 , you can use this package and… Read more: [code-snippet] Using hash ids to cloak incremental ids

Took me 10+ years to discover that form elements have a “form” attribute And can be used outside of the parent <form> element natively With this, when you submit the form, the form data will… Read more: [code-snippet] HTML forms attributes on elements outside of the actual form

I was thinking I start putting out some of the links I keep in my personal bookmarks. Partly to get them out there in front of more people, partly to create an archive outside of… Read more: Links – 03 March 2025

I recently needed to add columns to an existing table in a Laravel project and I had to reach to this functionality, hope you find it helpful:

I was looking into date filters for a project I am working on and I thought I would share the filter helper class I am now using, it may be of some use to someone… Read more: [code-snippet] Create a date interval filter helper in PHP / Laravel

When working with the Laravel config files you may set a default value on env retrieval. This may cause an issue when the key exists in the env file but has no value so a… Read more: Laravel quick tips: Getting alternative values in config files

I was switching between working on a Laravel project and working on updating the theme for this site and I found myself starting Local by Flywheel, when I realised that I have a Homestead machine… Read more: How to setup a WordPress local environment with Laravel Homestead

I really like reading IndieHackers even if it’s just for the sheer amount of inspiration the put out. So I put together a few of the articles I like to read most over there. If… Read more: Some recommendations from IndieHackers

Introducing today’s list, and as a disclaimer, its pretty much mostly frontend this time around: ShopTalk Show – Full Stack Crossover with Adam Wathan – this is actually the most recent item on the list,… Read more: List of interesting links – 31 July ’18

I read recently the article How I dropped 250KB of dead CSS weight with PurgeCSS and thought I should put out my setup for this situation. I use Laravel Mix for both Laravel development and… Read more: Clean up unused CSS with PurgeCSS on Laravel and WordPress

Coming back for the second consecutive week, these are some of the more interesting articles I read this past week What Every Young Man Should Understand About the Power of Compound Interest – a nice… Read more: List of interesting links – 24 July ’18

I used to write here, at one point, a list of interesting links I found online in the previous week. Then I got sucked into work and stopped posting, and then my old host lost… Read more: List of interesting links – 16 July ’18