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The Laracasts Snippet
The Laracasts snippet, each episode, offers a single thought on some aspect of web development.
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Programming Anxiety
Let me tell you a story about the programming-induced anxiety that my former self once felt. If you are constantly online, you will have the impressio...
Should You Learn Laravel Before PHP?
Should you learn PHP first or jump straight into Laravel? 🤔 It’s a question every newcomer asks, and in this episode, Jeffrey breaks down both sides...
Where Does Laracasts Go From Here?
In the last year, the way we program has changed dramatically. Perhaps, more dramatically than at any other time in my career. We can thank AI for tha...
The AI Episode
In this episode, we dig into the subject of AI... and whether it's going to steal your job or not. Don't worry: no bait in this video. Just an honest...
Big Fish, Little Fish
There was a time long ago, before the internet, when each of us had the ability to be a big fish in the small pond. At least in some small way, that's...
Horses for Courses
We love tools: linters, type checkers, test runners, asset compilers, et al. Whilst these tools can help solve problems, they might also be a sledgeha...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Tell me what you think of this. We all have certain stories about ourselves that we repeat, like mantras. "I am the type of person who is X, therefore...
Here's Why You Should Attend Laracon
Luke, here! I recently got the chance to attend and speak at Laracon EU 2024, and it was fantastic. The venue was awesome, the talks were amazing, but...
Find Your Fit
It occurred to me recently that, if my job consisted exclusively of writing code 40 hours a week, I don't think I'd be a programmer today. I might go...
Juggle the Idea
If someone on your team presents a business idea to you, they've likely had it simmering in their head for quite some time. Don't be so quick to toss...
Programming is Bootcamp for Conscientiousness
Programming taught me an interesting life lesson: be a stickler for the details. You see, getting the thing to work is only half the battle. You’re no...
Business Impostor
When it comes to business, I - like many developer-turned-small-business-owners, I’d imagine - am really quite green. Not just green, deep green. No M...
Steal From Other Hobbies
In this episode, we'll talk about stealing techniques and approaches from other hobbies or industries. What have you learned from one hobby that might...
Laracasts Q&A: 2022 Edition
It's hard to believe, but the last Q&A episode was published over two years ago. Let's fix that with a new 2022 edition. I'll answer a wide variety of...
Zoom Out
I often hear about flat organizational structures and how they lead to more autonomy and better collaboration. That could be true! It sounds appealing...
Don't Participate
For a number of years now, I've found myself quietly mumbling the words, "Don't participate," every time I feel the need to insert myself into events...
Programming Bullet Points I'd Send Back in Time
In this episode, I take some time to ponder over which programming bullet points I wish had been drilled into me more in the early days of my learning...
If It's Not Perfect, Ship It
It's far too easy for developers to fall into a trap of never shipping new code to production. "It's not ready," we tell ourselves. "Just one more mon...
Be the Tortoise
If you've worked in programming spaces for any period of time, you will surely have heard the advice, "It's better to go slow than fast." We all insti...
Three Shapes
Whenever I ask a slightly controversial programming question, the responses often take one of three shapes. Let's talk about each of them in this epis...
Trust the Process
Every time I learn something new, I have to re-remind to trust the process. I'm not sure why. That feeling of "I can't" never goes away. You would thi...
The Best of Both Worlds
In this episode, we discuss the three-month process of converting Laracasts to a single-page application with Inertia.js.
If You Flip It, They Can Learn It
It has occurred to me that I might have made some teaching mistakes in the past. Learning sticks when it can immediately be applied to a particular ta...
About That Laravel 8 Controversy
I keep seeing oddly similar threads around the web that relate to Laravel 8's "increased prerequisites." They all seem to share the view that, if you...
Cool Kids Table
Here's an uncomfortable truth about the programming world: we all want to sit at the cool kids table. It was true in high school, and it remains true...
One Thing I Love About Laravel
One thing I love about Laravel is how, for any given project or feature, there's already a clearly defined pathway I can follow to complete it. For ex...
If Programmers Had a Superpower
My wife recently paid me a compliment. "You're a good troubleshooter" - to which I replied, that's because it's all I do every day. Programmers are pr...
How to be Ignored on GitHub
After you've maintained a popular open source project for any length of time, you begin to notice a pattern. Certain issues and pull requests bubble u...
The Goodbye Debacle
We recently pushed a new "goodbye" landing page for the Laracasts website. In an effort to not succumb to the usual, boring "Goodbye, hope to see you...
How We Work
I recently hired a new instructor for Laracasts. Now that the team has grown to four people, including myself, I thought it might be interesting to di...
Four Words Can Derail Your Day
Four words can derail any programmer's day. Those four words are "If I could just..." Ask yourself if you frequently fall into this trap. "If I could...
Meet Them Where They Are
As parents or teachers, if you want to instill a joy for learning or reading, it's important that you meet them where they're currently at in life. Th...
It's All About the Framing
I recently came across a month-old YouTube channel with two million subscribers. The content...was fine. The audio...was fine. And, yet, two million s...
TDD Dogmatism
Few topics in the programming world spark debate quite as much as TDD. There's enough dogmatism from the evangelists of TDD to warrant an equal and op...
When Programmers Run Businesses
We're living in an interesting time, when one person - anywhere in the world - can start a business without leaving their bedroom. Even better, this b...
How Open Source Projects Spiral Out of Control
Every open source project begins with the best of intentions. In fact, they usually begin with excitement. One developer has an idea, and thinks, "Hmm...
Repair Your Focus
We can all surely relate to the sense that our ability to focus has slowly deteriorated over the last decade. If this scares you as much as it does me...
They're Only Guidelines
I think you'll find that intermediate-level developers tend to be the most passionate and rigid of the entire community. It is at this stage of your l...
This is How We Elect a President
To offer something different this week, let's tear down and inspect a recent conflict on the US presidential debate stage.
A Brain Dump on Fatherhood
In this episode, I offer a brain dump on the intricacies of raising two little kids, and fatherhood in general.