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A nifty little piece of code to include in your Laravel unit tests in order to check for any random 500 errors in all your public pages.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!