Change Default Sorting in Laravel Eloquent with a Global Scope
Did you know that you can easily change the default sorting order using a global scope?…
Setting up Laravel Dusk with CircleCI
Setting up a Continuous Integration pipeline using Dusk is well-documented, including guides for CircleCI, Travis, and a couple of others.…
Unauthorized access when using policies and authorizeResource helper
In order to protect the resourceful controller, Laravel provides a helper function (authorizeResource) that can be placed in the constructor. However, although I was authenticated, I kept hitting a 403 unauthorized error when attempting to show or edit a post.…
"Time to read" average for a blog post
When I started building this blogging application, I did some research on existing platforms. One thing I particularly liked was the time to read feature.…