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@christalks.dev

Hi, I'm Chris - a full stack web developer near London. I work for a motorsports PR agency and as a result, enjoy anything with an engine too! Blog: christalks.dev

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Secure Your Webhooks in Laravel: Preventing Data Spoofing Learn how to implement robust authentication using pre-shared keys and HMAC signatures to protect your webhook endpoints.

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#laravel #tutorial #security #webhooks #article

25.04.2025 08:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Setting up locale based routing in Laravel with middleware Laravel is an excellent framework that supports multilingual functionality out of the box - but it doesn't go as far as setting up the routing for you. Here's how you can achieve it with simple routin...

A quick little post I wrote about effective locale based routing with Laravel. It's easier than it might seem! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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#laravel #php #tutorial

27.01.2025 06:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ok, let's break it down.

at the core of atproto is the data. it lives own your own computer (or someone hosts it for you). think of it as a hard drive with JSON files on it

data is structured (i.e. has a type), and can references other records on other peoples' computer with a URI like a hyperlink

03.11.2024 01:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 659 ๐Ÿ” 142 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75 ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
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Using PHP Attributes to enhance the capabilities of Enums PHP Attributes are a powerful feature of PHP >= 8. In this example, I provide a brief introduction to using reflection to enhance your Enums with PHP attributes

PHP attributes are pretty trick and have much more capability than first meets the eye...

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#php #laravel #tutorial

24.11.2024 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another pattern - lets talk about state machines The state machine pattern isn't something you often hear about, but its critical to almost every piece of technology you experience in every day life

The other day I wrote a post on using the state machine pattern in PHP. Check it out here - christalks.dev/post/another...

22.11.2024 11:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0