CrowdStrike’s last week incident was quite a headline, large enough that almost everyone who follows some sort of news, has heard about it. even my mom sent me a message asking if my job was affected by it. (no Mom, unfortunately, I had to work) As someone who works in the engineering and IT field,… Continue reading CrowdStrike’s incident & Microsoft
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Laravel Pulse Crashes with Large SQL Queries
If you’re in the Laravel Ecosystem, You’ve probably heard of Laravel Pulse by now. Pulse delivers at-a-glance insights into your application’s performance and usage. Track down bottlenecks like slow jobs and endpoints, find your most active users, and more. From pulse.laravel.com Exciting right? but when I started using Laravel Pulse on one of my projects,… Continue reading Laravel Pulse Crashes with Large SQL Queries
install and use xdebug with Laravel Herd
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… Continue reading install and use xdebug with Laravel Herd
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… Continue reading Verify Domain Ownership in PHP
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… Continue reading PHP Link Preview: an open-source package to generate URL Previews