Blog Archive

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!

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!

There is no real way in GraphQL to select a random number of articles. You can, however, achieve a somewhat similar affect with pure JavaScript if you have all the content loaded.

Time to read on blog posts is a trending feature and I often see people using heavy, bloated JS to display that. It's actually quite simple to add a quick read time counter to content.