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Saturday 14th October 2023
How to speed up your Laravel test suite by using the GitHub Actions cache
When you're working in software development, especially if you are part of a team, it's good practice to implement Continuous Integration "CI"; continually running your test suite after each...
ReadSunday 9th July 2023
How to add a hash index to a column in a Laravel migration
MySQL supports several different types of index, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The most common types are b-tree and hash. The default b-tree index type is useful for range...
ReadSaturday 22nd May 2021
Using MySQL error messages to ensure randomly generated strings are unique
For my home project GoStatic each deployment has a unique, randomly generated URL.
Example: https://er34oltia2yqkyvl.gostatic.app
The URL is generated using Laravel's Str::random()...