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Alex Vanderbist

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Web, tech, and code enthousiast. PHP & Laravel developer at Spatie. Blogging at alexvanderbist.com

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Ginger, especially in drinks πŸ‘Œ

16.03.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Performance Monitoring | Flare Performance monitoring for Laravel & PHP, coming soon to all Flare plans at no extra cost. Get early access by joining the waitlist.

More than a year in the making, performance monitoring is coming to Flare! Join the waitlist to be among the first to access it. What features are you most excited about?

30.01.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any tips for handling large #Laravel Horizon jobs more effectively? Getting [job] attempted too many times usually points to OOM/timeouts, but debugging is tough - especially with 30min+ execution times and retries. What's your approach?

15.01.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What, no dinner and a movie first?

18.12.2024 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice, looks like a great starting point. Thanks!

18.12.2024 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now that an official VS Code extension for Laravel is available, I'm ready to give it another try. Is there a definitive guide on how to configure VS Code for PHP development? I know there's a Laracasts course, but I feel like a lot has changed since 2021

18.12.2024 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! Amazing to see it done in just two LOC. You're probably very good at code golf πŸ˜‚

05.12.2024 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The generator is about 40 lines, curious to see what you solution looks like πŸ‘€

29.11.2024 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to migrate back to X πŸ˜›

28.11.2024 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Websites & webapplications in Laravel Spatie is a digital allrounder: we design solid websites & web applications using Laravel & Vue. No frills, just proven expertise. From Antwerp, Belgium

like every year, we have some deals on courses, packages, and software at spatie.be as well πŸ™‚

25.11.2024 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! I love that this works for direct commits too πŸ‘Œ

25.11.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

this post but for global scopes

25.11.2024 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what did you get? :D

25.11.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

on it!

25.11.2024 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! Waiting until Thursday for a lifetime license is definitely worth it πŸ‘Œ

25.11.2024 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"are you almost there?" followed by me force quitting and restarting the app for another 10 minutes because the updater got stuck

22.11.2024 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every year, we create a fun video and promo for Black Friday, and this one might be my favorite yet!

Next week we'll be giving away 100 t-shirts and a bunch of other prizes, if you know where to find them πŸ•΅οΈ

22.11.2024 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

composer install nunomaduro/bluesky soon?

09.11.2024 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why doesn’t your current setup look like this?

08.11.2024 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been 3 years, when will we finally pick a decent replacement for Twitter :(

08.11.2024 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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