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01 Jan 2022

Using Composer to override classes in third-party vendor libraries

04 Feb 2021

Demistifying generators in PHP

01 Feb 2021

How to use RICE to prioritise your engineering team

RICE is a framework for prioritising incoming requests based on their key business scores. In this article we'll go over how to come up with a business formula and apply it to incoming requests so that your stakeholders start buying in to your priority list.

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30 Jan 2021

Avoid repeating yourself with Laravel Model Scopes

Once you start actually building something with Laravel, it's easy to find yourself repeatedly typing the same code when you fetch relationships. This article shows you a centralised approach using scopes.

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21 Jan 2021

Gumroad - a digital marketplace for creators - have open-sourced their brand book

09 Jan 2021

How to modernise an ageing legacy app into Laravel

15 Dec 2020

The Climate Strike license is "a software license that developers can use to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction"

02 Dec 2020

Scientist, a PHP library to experiment with code improvements in production

23 Nov 2020

The secret to a perfect brand name

12 Nov 2020

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