It may seem silly, but it's important to me that my Tailwind classes are orderedly consistently, and I don't want to have to manage that manually. Frustratingly, I've never found a solution that gives me exactly what I want—until now. Here's my must-have list: Works in CLI/Continuous Integration (Rustywind would work here, but not Headwind)...

Recently I added a feature to the speaking page on this site: a list of the most popular episodes of The Laravel Podcast for this week. However, this site is powered by a static generator, so the data on that page will go out of date pretty soon after each deploy. I considered setting up a local cron job on my server to run the deploy script...

I normally use Laravel Breeze to build my projects, but recently I started a new project that needed team support, so I figured I'd finally use Jetstream on a real project, instead of just for fun. There's a lot I really like about Jetstream, but one thing that bothers me—I know, it's not super reasonable, but whatever—is that it publishes so many...

Last week I gave a talk at AlpineDay entitled "From Vue to Alpine: How & Why". I put up my slides from my AlpineDay talk, "From Vue to Alpine: How & Why":https://t.co/xTzIl0FGun And also the files I used to test performance:https://t.co/tB5EThfEEJ pic.twitter.com/Jv8P7iDBcv— Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt) June 10, 2021 In the...

Recently Twitter started promoting their v2 API, which includes requiring all developers to re-apply to get developer credentials. Long story short, my application was rejected, so I'm left trying to build personal apps that tweet without API access. I'm pretty sure their goal here is to get each individual project to apply for its own sake, so I'm...

Today Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, released Laravel Sail, a tool that makes it incredibly easy to spin up development environments with Docker for your Laravel applications. Out of the box, Sail comes with MySQL, Redis, and MailHog. But what if you want to add PostgreSQL? ElasticSearch? Memcached? MsSQL? Or what if you have four Sail...