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May 9, 2021

1 minute

Livewire components public property must be of type X with Pagination

When using Livewire's Paginate function you may receive errors about public properties if you have additional calls (like where) on your model.
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May 6, 2021

2 minutes

Integrate Commento.io Comments with Gatsby

Commento is a lightweight, privacy-first comments system (think Disqus but 15KB in size), and it's the one powering comments on this blog. This guide will help you use it on your Gatsby site.
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May 6, 2021

2 minutes

Minutes to read Laravel 8 Helper

Using the Str::macro function you can add additional helpers to the Laravel Str class, and we're going to add a reading time helper for your articles.
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May 5, 2021

1 minute

Automatically lint PHP files against multiple PHP versions on GitHub

I've made a free to use PHP action for automatically linting your pull requests against a wide variety of PHP versions. Test your code against PHP5.5 through PHP8.0.
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May 5, 2021

1 minute

Check if passwords have been compromised in Laravel

An awesome new Laravel 8 validation change is the addition of the uncompromised option for password validation. Check that the users password has not been involved in a password leak!
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May 5, 2021

4 minutes

Pagination with Strapi and Gatsby

If you are using a Strapi backend for your Gatsby site you might notice a lot of the pagination guides are not well suited for you. But fear not, I got you!
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