Ever since the release of Laravel Herd it has become my simple setup for having PHP locally available on my Mac. This has been super helpful as I do not need to run my docker containers locally as we all know docker on Mac doesn’t rock like how it does on Linux. Laravel Herd has …
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Verify Domain Ownership in PHP
Have you ever wondered how can you verify if a user in your application owns an internet domain? This is not something that most of us have not seen before, most of the tools we use such as Google Search Console and many SaaS platforms such as email delivery services have the process of verifying …
PHP Link Preview: an open-source package to generate URL Previews
as part of working on our SaaS application, I had to find a way to get some metadata about URLs to generate previews for links. These sorts of metadata can mostly be grabbed from OG and Meta tags of a web page if they exist. To achieve this I have created PHP Link Preview an …
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VitoDeploy: opensource alternative to Laravel Forge
In this post, I will introduce you to a friendly open-source server management tool VitoDeploy, a project beautifully crafted and thoughtfully designed by one of my best friends Saeed. VitoDeploy is a self-hosted server management tool aimed to make it easy to bootstrap servers and easily deploy PHP applications. In a nutshell, Vito is a …
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Re-inventing Bookmarks for Teams
Bookmarks have been around for as long as the internet itself. They’re a simple way to save websites and articles that you want to revisit later. But in the age of teamwork, traditional bookmarks are starting to show their age. Here are some of the challenges with using traditional bookmarks for teams: So, what’s the …