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The Five Stages of Being Replaced by Your Autocomplete

In 1969, the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief. They start with denial and end with acceptance. Companies later turned them into…

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Oct 11, 2023 PHP

PHP: Constructor Property Promotion

Constructor Property Promotion is a feature that was introduced in PHP 8.0 to reduce the amount of boilerplate code needed when defining class properties…

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Oct 10, 2023 Freelance

Getting Freelance Developer Jobs

Here's a random list of things I have done to find freelance jobs. The list includes things that I haven't done yet but plan…

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Oct 10, 2023 Laravel

Laravel/UI: Implement Email Verification

In Laravel applications using the laravel/ui package for authentication, the feature for verifying an email address after registration is built-in but is not enforced…

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Oct 10, 2023 Laravel

Laravel/UI: Register Without Password, Send Password Via Email

You can modify the registration process in a Laravel application that uses laravel/ui (link) to generate a random password and send it via email…

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Oct 6, 2023 MySQL

Retrieving Remote MySQL Data as a CSV File Locally

Here's a practical method to extract data from a remote MySQL database and save it in CSV format on our local machine, all with…

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Oct 5, 2023 Laravel

Deep Dive into Laravel Queue Settings: retry_after, timeout, and backoff

Laravel offers a robust queue management system that's essential for handling background tasks in applications. Three key settings, namely retry_after, timeout, and backoff, play…

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Aug 20, 2023 SEO