July 28, 2024

Use an existing Laravel app with Laravel Sail

Most of the time, when I work on my side projects in PHP, I use Herd on my Mac to run it. But lately I wanted to try out how good development on my Windows machine is. To test this, I installed...

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October 30, 2023

Add file extension with PowerRename

PowerRename is one of the tools which is part of Microsofts PowerToys tool collection. As it's name suggests you can rename files with it. But what can you do, when you have a bunch of files without...

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April 5, 2023

Run a livewire laravel app behind a nginx reverse proxy

For my web projects I'm using a Docker setup. Every single application is run as a docker container. To reach each of this containers, there is a nginx reverse proxy in place to route the traffic to...

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August 9, 2022

Git under WSL shows all files as modified

Caused by different line endings, there is a chance that git under WSL falsely flags files as modified. Under Linux there is typically LF als line ending where under Windows CR+LF is beeing used. To...

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January 24, 2022

Setup encrypted SMTP Mailer in Laravel 8

When you enter your smtp mail credentials in Laravels .env file you are asked for the encryption. Since Laravel's mailer is based upon swiftmailer, you are able to set three different states. null:...

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October 22, 2021

Flip images with TailwindCSS

Sometimes you find that an image you want to show would be better mirrored. To achieve this this you could of course adjust the image in a suitable software. But CSS is capable to do this on its...

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