I’ve written about Custom PHP Exceptions before - as well as using PHP Interfaces for code readability. There’s one coding pattern that I use pretty consistently that encompasses these concepts - a custom exception for code or functionality that is not yet written.
In most of my applications, time is reflected in the UTC timezone. This is great for logic and math, but not so great when showing the date to the regular user.
Now, it’s pretty easy to show the UTC dates in the user’s timezone, without even asking them what it is.
Let’s see how to do this with a little bit of HTML and Javascript.
Recently, I had an issue with PHPStorm not detecting my Docker configuration. I was using Docker Compose and everything worked fine with docker cli and Orbstack. Why wouldn’t PHPStorm recognize this? It’s a simple fix, actually. It has to do with the name of your project. Let me explain.
Sometimes I need to spin up a quick Laravel instance on my Mac to test something out. With just a couple keystrokes, I can get a brand new Laravel instance running in a Docker container, ready for my IDE and testing. Here’s how.
What type of contractor are you hiring? That’s a question you should be asking yourself - and them - before you pull the trigger. Let me expand on the reason for this…
Thanks to the foexplorer website, we have the manuals for 2020-2024 Ford Explorers online. After working with my mechanic brother on mine, it became clear that we need printable versions of these for some people. So I created a system to make them printable.
I can never seem to find or remember how to disable each of the 1Password popup options. Hopefully this helps!
Showing and hiding AlpineJS elements on click or other actions are pretty easy. But what if you just wanted to show the element after a little bit of a delay with no user interaction? We can do that easily!
There’s a common design pattern on a lot of websites to alter the header when the user scrolls down. A lot of times this is simply some sort of handler that adds a class (or removes it). (There are other complex, arguably ‘better’ solutions with IntersectionObserver - but that’s not the point of this article.) Let’s take a look at a very simple version of a script that watches for scroll and adds/removes a class on the body. Then, let’s make it better - and learn while we do it.
I love writing in Markdown - and offering that functionality in WYSIWYG editors for our users. But, it just seems so complicated to try to show markdown in Laravel blade files. So, I made a quick anonymous component that makes this easier.