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How Ionic and Directus helped me start volunteering
A few weeks ago I finally decided to start volunteering and I found a beautiful cat colony in a cemetery. Well, it's not a common cemetery, it's the "Cimitero Monumentale" in Milan, Italy, a beautiful mix of graves and architecture. There was only o...
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Add elapsed and estimated time to Laravel (and Symfony) console commands
Laravel Artisan Console is a powerful functionality to write your console commands, also thanks to Symfony Console Component which represents the base engine for them. One feature I always wanted, but found out it exists only recently, is the estimat...
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Time travel after each Laravel Factory
If you ever tested an endpoint returning a collection of data and, for example, by default, you sort them by created_at, you may have been struggling to check the correct order of the result. If you either created multiple data with User::factory()->...
Jul 15, 20212 min read
Laravel FIFO queue with Redis
Recently I needed to create a FIFO (First In, First Out) queue in Laravel to run specific actions inside a long-running worker from outside the worker itself. I had two possibilities: Database, creating a table, but I had also to create a Model, Ser...
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Resovable trait for Laravel container
If you really work on Laravel, you're gonna deal a lot of times with its Container and, probably, you often will need to resolve something from it, with a syntax like this: $service = resolve(MyService::class); // or $service = App::make(MyService:...
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Run a one-off command on Twitch IRC with TMI.php
If you've ever interacted with Twitch Chat IRC, you probably have used tmi.js or a similar library. Recently, because I mainly use PHP, I discovered the great TMI.php library by Ghostzero and I'm already using it to manage events from my chat, when I...
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Valheim may tell nothing to you and you're right, why should it sound familiar when it got in the 1° position of Steam popular games in less than 2 weeks... Sarcasm aside, one of the greatest features of the game is that it allows you to create your ...
Feb 16, 20214 min read
Preloading Laravel on PHP7.4 in the real world
One of the greatest features of PHP7.4 is for sure the preload - part of the opcache extension. We recently moved a big part of my company's core APIs from a Node-Frankenstein to a well-tested Laravel 8 project, but of course, the performance - altho...
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