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October 31, 2025 You add soft deletes to the users table, this looks harmless, you keep history (audit trail), you can restore a user, you keep all related rows alive. Then someone tries to (re)register as user that w...
April 10, 2024 This article compares Laragon and Herd, both excellent PHP development tools, and provides tips on transitioning between them. Herd is a solid environment emphasizing ease of use over configurability....
February 14, 2023 Every time I'm installing a fresh Laravel project, I find myself following the same steps over and over again. As I've written them out (so it's easier for me to execute them without forgetting anythi...
January 25, 2023 Maybe you are one of the lucky ones that didn't encounter it, but know that it can happen that you bump into cURL error 60: SSL certificate: unable to get local issuer certificate when using Laravel's...