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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.

A large majority of poor SQL performance in Laravel can be attributed to lazy loading. Queries that you think execute a single query may execute thousands.

A great performance tip for Laravel is the ability to send HTTP requests concurrently. This is especially useful when you are doing things like sending multiple webhooks and similar examples.