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Freek Van der Herten
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Freek Van der Herten
@freekmurze
PHP developer at @spatie_be, built @getmailcoach, myray.app, @ohdearapp, @flareappio, there-there.app, blogging at freek.dev
Antwerp, Belgium
freek.dev
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Oct 1, 2020
    Open source !== just merging anything in.
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Nov 25, 2020
    PHP 8 will be released tomorrow! Who’s excited for this? πŸ– #php
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Aug 24, 2020
    Sliding into Laracon week like πŸš™ x.com/taylorotwell/s…
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    Taylor Otwell
    Laravel
    @taylorotwell
    Aug 22, 2020
    Sliding into Laracon week like 🏎
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Jan 2, 2024
    πŸš€ I’ve tagged 1.0 of spatie/laravel-pdf πŸ”₯ This package can create PDFs from Blade views 🎨 You can use modern CSS syntax and frameworks like Tailwind to style your PDFs. πŸ§ͺ Comes with a fake so you can easily test code that generates a PDF 😍 Lots of Laravel niceties
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    May 4, 2018
    Did you know you can destructure arrays in foreach loops? πŸ”₯ #php
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Apr 15, 2024
    We have made it! πŸ₯³ One. Billion. Downloads. πŸ₯³ Our story: 1billion.spatie.be #php #laravel RT = ❀️
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Aug 12, 2022
    πŸ’ͺ Now consistently executing over 20 000 jobs per minute / 1 million jobs per hour at ohdear.app 🐘 β€œPHP doesn’t scale” Yeah, whatever πŸ™‚
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Jan 6, 2021
    If you’re reading this you are a @laravelphp Elite πŸ‘
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Aug 28, 2023
    After having Google this one times to many, I finally added an uncommit alias to my dotfiles #devlife
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Nov 17, 2022
    🌎 We’re proud to announce Worldwide Spatie Discounts! Next week you can enjoy unimaginable discounts the entire Spatie catalogue. ✨ Every day we’ll introduce a magical discount for one of our products We've made a fun video about it! πŸ‘€ Keep an eye on spatie.be/wwsd
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Jan 7, 2021
    πŸš€ Ray is here: a tool that helps you to debug faster. Think of it as something in between dump-die-debugging and Xdebug. Free demo: myray.app Blogpost: freek.dev/1868-introduci… Full docs: spatie.be/docs/ray/v1/in… We added a lot niceties for @laravelphp #php
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    May 25, 2022
    😍 Laravel’s Http client is amazing. Using just a bit of code, you can specify a timeout, retry attempts, and immediately get the result as JSON. Is there any other HTTP client written in #php that makes it this easy? πŸ’ͺ Laravel
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Aug 14, 2019
    Q: Isn’t PHP terrible/dead? A: Just read this: stitcher.io/blog/php-in-20… RT if you ❀️ PHP
    PHP in 2019 | stitcher.io
    From stitcher.io
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    Freek Van der Herten
    @freekmurze
    Sep 1, 2020
    PHP is dead Laravel can’t scale Do you know other statements didn’t age quite well?

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