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Read about how to use `calebdw/larastan-livewire` package to solve PHPStan issues related to using Livewire computed properties.

Learn about the new "clamp" function in PHP 8.6 and how it can be used with different data types.

Read about the different ways you can use the "Illuminate\Support\Benchmark" class in Laravel to measure the execution time of your code.

Learn about how to use the "Cache::memo()" method to memoise cache values and improve performance in your Laravel applications.

In this article, we'll look at how to send Telegram messages from a Laravel application using the "laravel-notification-channels/telegram" package.

In this article, we'll discuss how to use the "once" helper in Laravel to memoise data.

In this video, we'll take a quick look at how to use JetBrain's AI assistant, Junie, to build a new Laravel feature in PhpStorm.

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Read about how to use PHP CS Fixer to automate the formatting of your PHP code.

Learn about the difference between the ternary operator (?

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Read about the difference between immutable and mutable dates in PHP.

Read about how to decide whether to use Salon, Guzzle, an SDK, or the Http Facade to build API integrations for your Laravel applications.

Read about my latest package: Email Utilities for Laravel.

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Read about how to use HTTP 404 responses instead of HTTP 403 when a user is unauthorised to access a resource.

Read about how to use the "withoutVite" method in your Laravel apps to disable Vite during your PHPUnit and Pest tests.

Read about the potential dangers of using dynamic method calls in PHP.

Read about how to use the "match" expression in your PHP applications.

Read about how to use the "json_validate" function in PHP to check whether a string is valid JSON.

Learn about serialization and how it works in PHP.

Read about the new v1.0 release of the Redactable Models for Laravel package.

Read about how to use the Favicon Fetcher package in your Laravel projects to retrieve websites' favicons via the DuckDuckGo API.

Read this guest post by Revaz Ghambarashvili that introduces us to his Laravel AI package, LarAgent.

Learn about how to use the "never" type in PHP.

Read about how you can verify that a URL is a signed URL in your Laravel tests.

Learn how to reduce your database queries by passing an instance of "Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder" to the "whereIn" method of your queries.

Learn about how to use asymmetric property visibility (added in PHP 8.4) to define different visibility levels for reading and writing properties in PHP.

Learn how to format monetary values in JavaScript using the "toLocaleString" method and "Intl.NumberFormat" object.

Read about how to use the "Arr::hasAll" method (added in Laravel 12.16) in your Laravel applications to ensure a given array contains every key.

Read about how to use the new `Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\AsUri` cast (added in Laravel 12.17) to cast Laravel model properties to instances of `Illuminate\Support\Uri`.

In this article, we'll dive into what "mutators", "accessors", and "casts" are and how to use them in your Laravel application.

Learn about covariance and contravariance and how these concepts apply to your PHP code.

Learn how to convert file sizes in bytes to human-readable file sizes using the "Number::fileSize" method.

Learn about the strategies Gary Clarke uses to build scalable Laravel applications using microservices.

Learn how to convert numbers to ordinal numbers (e.g., "1" to "1st") in PHP and Laravel apps.

Read about how to use Squeaky, the new Laravel package by Jon Purvis, to validate input and ensure it doesn't contain profanity.

Read about how to use the Illuminate\\Console\\Prohibitable trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application.

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Read about the #[RouteParameter] PHP attribute that you can use in Laravel to access route model-bound models in your form request classes.

Learn about how to use Intervention Image (intervention/image) in your Laravel applications to resize, rotate, crop, and watermark images.

Read about how to use Volt to build Livewire components.

In this guest article, we learn how to set up your Mac to get it ready for web design.

Learn about how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes.

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Read my review of the fantastic "Advanced Inertia" book by Boris Lepikhin.

Use the free "Freelance Rate Calculator" tool to calculate an hourly or daily rate from an annual summary (and vice versa).

Learn how to limit the eager-loaded relationships on Laravel models.

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