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• How to fix the Filament resource list locale switcher

  August 28, 2025
  With Filament 4, the locale switcher for translatable resources is broken in the list page. Fix it with one method.
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• Laravel Precognition: Beyond the frontend

  June 1, 2023
  Precognitive requests were introduced with Laravel 9 and are useful for keeping your frontend validation logic entirely in the backend. Though designed to be used with JavaScript frameworks, what about in mobile applications?
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• PHP Enums: randomUnique

  April 10, 2023
  In my test suites I’ll often loop over all of an enum’s ::cases() (ideally using a data provider) when making assertions that rely on them in such a way that all possible combinations are covered.
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• PHP and MySQL: Use the haversine formula to calculate the distance between two co-ordinates

  April 3, 2015
  I’m currently building a social media platform where members can find other users based on the distance between them.
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