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Laravel Suspicious Logins is a free package to automatically track logins to your site, and detects if a login is suspicious. You can then email either the owner of the account or yourself to notify of the suspicious login.

Using the range() function makes your for loops in PHP far cleaner to read and easier to maintain by switching to a foreach.

The frustration of having to use strpos and strstr to check if strings contain another string is over with PHP 8 and a great new string function called str_contains.

A very annoying new feature in Chrome in the last couple of months is that CSS scaled images are blurry when loaded. You can fix this by adding this style tag to your images.

You can customize the user agent that Laravel sends with the withUserAgent call. It can often happen that a WAF or other security system will block curl, PHP and Guzzle based requests.

This simple function will return the number of days remaining on an SSL certificate, including potentially negative values if it's expired.