Hey 👋🏻 Just a heads up that I will be revamping the site and will launch a new version by 2023! I will be restarting my blogging and will be covering topics on PHP / Laravel. Topics would include: Laravel Core Laravel Livewire Laravel Queues El...
I presented this talk in the Eskimo Tech Adda meetup a few months ago.
This is NOT a recommended way to work with Laravel. At the time of writing this, strong typing and static analysis tools were not available – with their wide usage now, there is no need to use hacks like this anymore. In a few recent projects, we h...
I am running a small, low-memory VPS where MariaDB is frequently killed by the system due to lack of memory. Since I wanted to keep the budget fixed and didn’t have enough time to look under the hood to find the root cause, I opted in for running a c...
In a recent project, we had to load jQuery as a part of a chrome extension into an external page where the $ alias has already been used. We tried the classic solution: jQuery.noConflict(), which returns control of $ back to the other library. Howeve...
I wanted to install the Symfony 4 beta to play with the new features. While I was able to get most of it working, but was facing issues due to package dependency when trying to install some common bundles. I then settled with the 3.4 branch, which ha...
A wonderful presentation by Dan McKinley of Stripe on how technology companies make mistake in choosing the next piece of shiny technology instead of relying on their existing and tested stack. He outlines how this increases the overall cost and how ...
I am a procrastinator. One who has mastered its art. I have always been so. I do important things at the very last minute, with the highest intensity. I have succeeded with this approach more than I should have. As a result, I’ve escaped the failure ...
Its been some time since I’ve last posted anything in my blog – it would happen that I’d feel like posting something in the blog but never actually write anything. Sometimes I’d log into WP Admin to write, but then I’d feel the pressure of upgrading ...
