January 8, 2024 — PHP 8.3 has already been released a few months back and it’s time to look at what’s coming in PHP 8.4.

January 2, 2024 — I’ve been running this blog for more than 9+ years now. And over the years, I’ve tried and tested a lot of things to make this blog work.

December 30, 2023 — Google Fonts is a great resource for finding free fonts for your web projects. It has a wide variety of fonts to choose from. You include these fonts in your project using the <link> tag or by using the @import rule in your CSS which points to the Google Fonts CDN.

December 29, 2023 — With the advent of frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, etc., PHP has become a very powerful language for building web applications. These frameworks have greatly improved the developer experience in the PHP ecosystem.

December 26, 2023 — So, I just learned about this neat little trick in VS Code where you can use abbreviations for long CSS properties and it will automatically expand them into their full form. This is a built-in feature in VS Code and you don’t need to install any extension for this.

December 21, 2023 — I saw this cool-looking wiggly hover animation on byline recently and found it quite fascinating. It looks like this.

December 20, 2023 — Generative AI is all the rage these days. Many big players (OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft) have already launched their own AI models that can generate images, text, and even code. So, it’s only natural that Google has also joined the bandwagon and launched its own AI model called Gemini recently.

December 17, 2023 — There are times when you want to convert HTML to PDF. For instance, if you’re building a web application that allows users to generate PDFs of their invoices, you might want to convert the HTML of the invoice to PDF. Or if you’re building a blog, you might want to convert your blog posts to PDFs.

December 14, 2023 — Debugging is an essential part of the development process. And when it comes to debugging in Laravel, the first thing that comes to mind is the dd() and dump() functions. These functions are used to dump the contents of a variable and stop the execution of the script.

December 12, 2023 — There are times when you don’t want to use a full-fledged database like MySQL or PostgreSQL for your application. For instance, if you’re building a small application that relies heavily on reading small subset of data, you might not want to setup a database table for something like that.