I want to start off by saying I think Laravel provides a great set of testing tools out of the box. They really encourage test writing and make much easier to do so. Things like Factories and Seeders, traits like RefreshDatabase, MakesHTTPRequests, WithFaker, and things like the included Bus::fake() really…

During a recent API design session, I came across a data type that should have taken three seconds to define, but ended up causing a little head scratching. And that task is — defining a SET data type within your Open API spec. Seems easy enough right? And it is…

My last post talked about PHP performance related to Node.js, so I have decided to put my money where my mouth is, and get a little async PHP project up and running. Laravel Vapor isn’t out yet, so we are gonna try Swoole, a project started by Tencent in China…

While browsing new job listings, I have been getting a little frustrated with what seems is a decreasing amount of higher-quality PHP opportunities out there lately. I am not sure if it is just the excitement around JavaScript over the last few years, or the bad rap PHP has gotten…

Even with all the amazing developers out there working on open source projects and libraries, inevitably the time comes when you need to add your own code to an existing Composer package. It might be a bugfix, maybe a custom addition you wrote that could help others, who knows. So…

Like many others, I’ve had issues keeping my virtual machine time in sync. Ever come back to your VM console, try to run a command, and see something similar to: { “error”: “invalid_grant”, “error_description”: “Invalid JWT: Token must be a short-lived token and in a reasonable timeframe”} ? Then you…