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This is going to be a quick post to give my views on what the reality is when it comes to choosing a programming language and to show that there is no best language! The vast majority of the time, people will just use what they are comfortable with and thats ok.
It’s no surprise that been a bit of an Apple fanboy in respect to the MacBooks for a number of years. This is because, they just worked out of the box and I just never had many real issues with them.
While working on a new Ruby on Rails app, I encountered an issue I've not had before. The last Rails app I built was on my old Intel Macbook and now I'm running an M1 Macbook Pro which has the Apple Silicone chip.
I use Laravel dusk as part of my testing to make sure the frontend design does what it should when clicked, including filling out forms etc. This compliments the Unit and Feature tests as I can run `php artisan dusk` or `php artisan dusk --browse` to test the whole frontend in one hit.
There’s a lot of hype on using AI to code and I’d like to give my experience on testing this out. FYI, I hate the term vibe coding, what a joke!!!
In this post, I want to share how I resolved a frustrating issue when deploying Laravel Nova to the DigitalOcean App Platform. Specifically, I encountered the error: "Missing or incorrect username/password combination"
In order to understand how AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) work, and how I can integrate a more specific version of a model into a project, I decided to dive in and give it a go.
I encountered an odd issue where the application insisted on sending emails to Mailtrap, my mail testing service, even though I had updated the .env file to use Mailgun.
Working with Enums in Laravel is pretty simple once you know how. In this quick post, I'll show you how I use Enums to store values for an alert popup.