Aaron Saray

Bored and need something to read? I have over 500 blog entries over more than the last decade about business, Laravel, management, PHP, startups and JS. Check it out: aaronsaray.com

blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompili… -- so... I'm not installing it either :)

Already learned something from this free 'open house' set of courses from josh - you should check it out: courses.joshwcomeau.com/css-for-js/ope…

You can either go forward blindly or get a second opinion. Really, its up to you. 1lastcheck.com

I haven't tested print css in a while. Headers and footers are still hard. But doable: aaronsaray.com/2025/a-deep-di…

You ever do a really cool poc or animation, leave it at codepen, and months/years later, forget why you did it? Check this one out codepen.io/aaronsaray/pen…

It's been a while since I mentioned it - but I still practice my NATO / phonetic alphabet weekly for HAM learnthephoneticalphabet.com

finally a current replacement for lodash using new functionality and speed / smaller code: es-toolkit.dev

You can add validation errors to Laravel inside of your controllers that look like validator-initiated ones: aaronsaray.com/2025/adding-la…

Need to learn Make files better? I sure did. Check out this amazing tutorial: makefiletutorial.com

Excellent explanation of the new #php Dom handling - in diffs liamhammett.com/php-84s-new-do…

This is a really great writeup comparing one company's choice of Tauri vs Electron: gethopp.app/blog/tauri-vs-…

This write-up explains why not to use the lang blade helper in Laravel - and what to do instead. I love it: chimit.me/posts/dont-use…

Need to know when your favorite tool is end of life? endoflife.date

Had an idea in my head... using CSS only - I want you to have a good day: codepen.io/aaronsaray/pen…

Finally added dark mode to learnthephoneticalphabet.com - Check it out if your eyes were hurting before...

I'm starting to post meta data in addition to tags/categories on technical blog entries for context. Here's an example: aaronsaray.com/2025/how-i-lau…

Wish I had infinite time - do you? Perhaps learning some ML in JS can use some of it up: thecodingtrain.com/tracks/ml5js-b…

My AppleTV remote was freaking out after discharging. It was blasting IR non stop everywhere. After a day of hiding the remote, finally found this and it fixed it: discussions.apple.com/thread/2534319…

I like the new Str::replaceArray in laravel, but let's not forget that we also have built-in tools like php.net/vsprintf vsprintf() which do most of this - and more. :) I like tooling to help, but don't forget about the underlying language.

I <3 @1Password - but sometimes they're a little bit too all over my form fields... note to self blog entry - maybe useful for you, too (disabling 1password popups): aaronsaray.com/2024/disable-1…