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A while ago, I was working on a way to import large datasets in a hobby project of mine Biologer. The user selects a CSV file, maps columns to supported fields so the app can tell what is what, and submits it. The import then goes through several...

In an application I'm developing, users submit their observations of animals, plants or fungi, usually accompanied by photos, that either they or curators of certain groups identify. If all is well, curators approve the users' observations and users get...

Real-time facades is a feature introduced in Laravel 5.4. It is a simple way to create Laravel facades quickly, without needing to write the actual facade class, by prefixing the namespace of the class we want to resolve out of container with...

While building my site using Jigsaw, a static site generator by the good people at Tighten, I enjoyed how easy it is to quickly build a static site utilizing the power of Laravel's Blade templating engine. I wanted to use the site for my personal blog...

Previous design was fine, but for some reason I wasn't fully satisfied with it. This may be due to the fact that it was completely copied from some site I liked at the moment when I was building this site. It just wasn't really aligned with my character...

I'd like to use this opportunity to welcome you all to my little blog. This will be a place where I'll share my thoughts and experiences regarding software development, devops and related topics, my experience being a developer in general. I hope...