June 26, 2026
Changing dnsmasq configuration to use a custom DNS server
I've recently run into a special scenario on my Ubuntu based Linux PC. For PHP development I'm using Laravel Valet. Under the hood Valet for Linux is using dnsmasq. But I've configured a custom DNS...
ReadMarch 3, 2025
Laravel falsly uses hot loading via Vite
I recently encountered an issue in my development environment where a Laravel application was only loading assets correctly when Vite was running via npnpm run dev. Upon inspecting the...
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...
ReadOctober 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...
ReadApril 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...
ReadAugust 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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