All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
The tests I write are usually written in Pest, PHPUnit, or Jest. I also usually commit them to a code repository - but not all automated tests should be committed. I wrote what I consider to be an automated test that was a "single-use test". It served its purpose and it will forever be in my heart, but not in my repository.
You probably think fast database queries are good. You also probably think slow database queries are bad. On top of all of these "thinks" you have about database queries - there is a certain Laravel method that, if you have seen it, you probably think you understand…but there is a chance you don’t.