A blog about Laravel and web development

This articles explains how to install a private PHP package with Composer. Using SSH keys and a little composer.json magic, in just 3 steps.

SSH keys can be used to create secure connections between computers. This article explains the basics of creating and using SSH keys.

Now that 2018 comes to an end, it is time to reflect and make plans for the new year. The theme for 2019: learn new things and becoming an "activist" for online privacy.

If you develop code on both Windows and Linux machines you might have run into inconsistent line endings. This might lead to "empty" commits, consisting only of changed line ednings. This post describes how a .gitattributes file can solve all your (line ending-related) problems.

The SOLID design principles are guidelines for building software that is easier to understand and maintain while also being more flexible. These 8 resources explain what SOLID is, and what it isn't.

PHP 7+ has support for strict type checking. Using PHP Code Sniffer we can enforce the use of declare(strict_types=1); at the beginning of each file.

On June 7, 8, and 9, the Dutch PHP Conference 2018 was held. Now that all information has settled down, and most talks are available on YouTube, I want to share the talks I liked the most.

It is best to prevent the usage of "unsafe-inline" in your Content Security Policy (CSP) header. In this article, I will explain why that is the case and how to transform unsafe assets into safe ones.

Filtering Laravel Collections can become a performance bottleneck. Using the filter method is significantly faster then the where method, if used properly. Read the article for a full comparison and benchmark results.

Code coverage results can give a false sense of quality. With the @covers and @coversNothing annotations, you can better express the intention of your test. This leads to better code coverage results that truly reflect the coverage of your tests.