I'm Rias 👋
A full stack software engineer from Antwerp specialized in Laravel, Livewire, Craft CMS, and React.
Software Engineer at Craft CMS and co-creator of Eventy.
Previously worked on Mailcoach and Flare at Spatie.
You can find me or my work on GitHub and Bluesky.
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. Running tests in parallel is great until multiple processes try to use the same local…
Just like my previous article on adding text to an image using GD, this is how to add that same text using Imagick instead
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Stale While Revalidate (SWR) is a strategy to first return the data from the cache (stale), then send the fetch request (revalidate), and finally…
By default, Laravel uses Carbon for dates, but the object returned by the \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Date helper is mutable.
When you have deployed your Laravel application across multiple servers, for example when running multiple workers, you can run into a situation…