I developed a way to automatically crawl and test big parts of your Laravel application.

With just one line of code, you can now write a "peace of mind" test that gives you a lot of confidence.

A few (meta) thoughts on the search for the best project management tool.

Usually, the chaos you'll find in a software is a quite accuarate representation of your teams' communication skills - and also a big chance for improvement.

Laravel Envoy provides a nice alternative for projects that don't need or can't have a push to deploy setup.

I found out that you can use environment-variables quite easily inside tasks.

Spatie's response cache package speeds up your page quite considerably.

This is fine for static pages, but I found a quick way how to use the library with the awesome Laravel CMS Statamic

Laravel offers an awesome testing environment for PHP, but if use Vue.js components in your frontend and don't test them, you have a big blindspot.

Since it is quite a struggle to even get started, I wrote a pacakge to simplfy it. In this post, I also nerd out about the detais that went into writing the package.

I found out Laravel 6.x already ships with a pretty powerful package for parsing Markdown, and it can be extended and customized.

After a few headaches I was able to configure it to my liking for this blog, and even create an extension that adds lazy images.

I strongly believe that all developers are only as good as their teams.

Let's have a little "meta monologue" about why I think design in the cloud is a low hanging fruit for team productivity - and why every developer should care.

The Laravel Scheduler is an awesome tool since it greatly simplifies the usage of confusing cron job definitions I am simply not smart enough for.

Learn to use this feature without access to your servers cron jobs on cheap hosters

For a long time I was hesitant to dive into alternatives and always used FTP clients for deployment.

Recently I noticed there are a many small steps without immediately sailing rough seas on docker ships.

This is the second part of my BEM by Example series.

In this post we will setup the project and then (finally) implement the header of the Design.

This little series is about writing better CSS by making use of BEM!

I currently find BEM immensely helpful but I did not find examples using it in a real-world scenario.

I want to show a few things that Trello does really well and with an incredible amount of focus on User Experience (UX).

I mean.. I regularly feel hugged by the Trello UX team.. is that really just me?