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Matthew Daly

Dec 30 '20

Lightweight Laravel - deconstructing a full stack framework

#php #laravel

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11 min read

What was your win this week?

Pushed a really big update to a large legacy project to prod...

May 29

jQuery: the king is dead

There are better options these days for that, though. Alpine...

Apr 24

April 9th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Today I started using Snowpack. I'm seeing really fast build ...

Apr 9

Web devs assemble! Why did you choose a career in web dev? 👀

I actually did some mobile development work at my second and ...

Apr 3

Web devs assemble! Why did you choose a career in web dev? 👀

Web dev is a second career for me. I didn't know what to do a...

Apr 3

TypeScript and why you should type your JS project

OK, I'll bite. Flow offers many of the same advantages as Ty...

Mar 3

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Matthew Daly

Oct 4 '20

What I want in a PHP CMS

#php

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9 min read

Matthew Daly

Jun 14 '20

Flow typed AJAX responses with React Hooks

#react #flow #javascript

4 min read

Matthew Daly

May 14 '20

Does technical debt make burnout more likely?

#discuss #career #productivity

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2 min read

Matthew Daly

Mar 11 '20

Caching the Laravel user provider with a decorator

#php #laravel

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3 min read

Matthew Daly

Feb 13 '20

The trouble with integrated static analysis

#php

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Feb 10 '20

Don't use stdClass

#php

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Jan 26 '20

F*** PHPStorm Man and the high horse he rode in on

#watercooler #editors #programming

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10 min read

Matthew Daly

Dec 16 '19

Unconventional backends and data sources

#watercooler

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1 min read

Matthew Daly

Oct 28 '19

Input components with the useState and useEffect hooks in React

#react #javascript

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Oct 14 '19

Flexible data types with the JSON field

#php #mysql #laravel

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Sep 22 '19

Storing Wordpress configuration in environment variables

#php #wordpress

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Sep 21 '19

Using Mix versioning outside Laravel

#php #laravel

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Sep 8 '19

Setting private properties in tests

#php #tdd

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2 min read

Matthew Daly

Jul 30 '19

Skipping environment specific PHPUnit tests

#php #tdd

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Jul 13 '19

What have you been watching on TV lately?

#watercooler

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1 min read

Matthew Daly

Jun 20 '19

Powering up git bisect with the run command

#git

3 min read

Matthew Daly

May 14 '19

Writing golden master tests for Laravel applications

#php #tdd #laravel

10 2

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Mar 6 '19

How much difference does adding an index to a database table make?

#sql #performance

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Feb 26 '19

Searching content with Fuse.js

#javascript #search

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Feb 20 '19

Higher-order components in React

#react #javascript

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Feb 9 '19

Creating your own dependency injection container in PHP

#php

13 min read

Matthew Daly

Jan 29 '19

Understanding query objects

#php

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Jan 20 '19

Writing a custom sniff for PHP CodeSniffer

#php

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Jan 9 '19

You don't need that module package

#php #laravel #composer

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Jan 3 '19

Why bad code is bad

#productivity #coding

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Dec 31 '18

Improving search in Vim and Neovim with FZF and Ripgrep

#vim

2 min read

Matthew Daly

Dec 7 '18

Decorating service classes

#php

10 1

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 19 '18

Simplify your tests with anonymous classes

#php #tdd

3 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 26 '18

Adding React to a legacy project

#react

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 18 '18

Understanding the pipeline pattern

#php #pipeline

5 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 20 '18

How I'm refactoring a Zend 1 legacy project

#php #legacy

11 min read

Matthew Daly

Sep 9 '18

Switching from Vim to Neovim

#vim #neovim

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5 min read

Matthew Daly

Sep 8 '18

Better strings in PHP

#php

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4 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 18 '18

Rendering different views for mobile and desktop clients in Laravel

#php #laravel

4 min read

Matthew Daly

Nov 24 '18

Check your code base is PHP 7 ready with PHP Compatibility

#php

2 min read

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What was your win this week?

jQuery: the king is dead

April 9th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Web devs assemble! Why did you choose a career in web dev? 👀

Web devs assemble! Why did you choose a career in web dev? 👀

TypeScript and why you should type your JS project