August 13, 2023 — Laravel’s Eloquent is a pretty powerful ORM. It allows you to seamlessly interact with your database tables using a simple and expressive syntax. But sometimes, it can be a little too forgiving about the mistakes you make while interacting with the database.

August 11, 2023 — This is something you might already be aware of but if you’re using Git on your terminal, there’s a faster way to switch between two branches using the checkout command.

August 9, 2023 — VS Code extensions have a reputation for customizing it according to your wild dreams. And sure enough, the extension that I’m going to talk about in this article is no different.

August 8, 2023 — When working with databases, more specifically MySQL, whenever you want to calculate the count of rows, the obvious way to do that is by using the COUNT() function.

August 7, 2023 — I have been writing on my blog for well over 8 years now but more than 70% of articles have been published only in the last 3-4 years. So, what’s changed?

August 6, 2023 — How many times have you been in a situation where you’re typing a string in VS Code and you want to tab out of the string to continue typing the rest of the code? Or, you’re typing a function and you want to tab out of the brackets to continue typing the rest of the code?

August 5, 2023 — Artisan commands in Laravel are truly a blessing. I mean you could create just about any files be it controllers, models, middleware, or provider by knocking a simple command from the CLI.

August 3, 2023 — Sometimes, you may want to ensure that a collection in Laravel contains only a specific type of item. For instance, you may want to ensure that a collection contains only a string type of item. Or, you may want to ensure that a collection contains items of a specific class.

August 1, 2023 — If you go to paint shops and show them a color that you want to buy and they don’t have the exact color, they will mix different colors to create the same color you want. This is how they create variants of colors.

July 29, 2023 — I have been working with CSS for like 10+ years now and I have worked with CSS animations for a fair amount of time. But I didn’t know that you can pause and resume animations in CSS until recently.