Something that has always bothered me about reading on the internet is how quickly I forget about great content. I might have read an awesomely inspiring blog post last month; chances are slim I'll remember anything of it in a year.

Luckily, I have Aggregate, where I keep track of everything I've read (since I started the project), and so last week, I wrote some code that will suggest "old but good posts" to me. It'll take some time to fine-tune the system to my liking, but it's somewhat reassuring knowing I won't lose track of great content and can re-read it from time to time.

You'll notice I'll share the odd "old" post from time to time in my roundups; I hope you enjoy them as well!

Roundup

• I'm a code folder — This is my latest blog-post-to-video that I published a couple of days ago. It takes less than two minutes to watch, and I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
• Prompting for missing input in Artisan commands — Luke writes about a very nice addition in Laravel where Artisan will ask about missing input arguments.
• Building APIs in Laravel — Steve has been writing some great in-depth tutorials over at Laravel News lately. This post fits in nicely.
• Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks — TikTok is so weird, and yet it seems to be so popular. This is an interesting post about how someone grew their TikTok audience. I wonder how it would translate to technical content. Are you on TikTok? How do you like it?
• My favourite way of testing validation rules — Another post by Luke about how he tests validation rules with Pest. I'm still on the PHPUnit side, but I have to admit: Pest does some really nice things!
• PHP Core Roundup #9 — The PHP Foundation keeps doing consistent work. I look forward to seeing what PHP 8.3 will bring! (There already are some RFCs listed in that post.)
• My clean and minimalistic PhpStorm setup — This is an older post of mine; I've been using the same setup for years now.
• How I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going To Production — The original post got deleted, probably because of some NDA issues, but luckily nothing on the web ever gets lost :)
• The evolution of null — I made a video on the PHP Annotated channel about how PHP itself has evolved in dealing with null. I like all the rich syntax we have today!

That's all for today; enjoy your week!

Brent