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September 12, 2024

Introducing Retakee: The Perfect Tool for Capturing Consistent Photos

Retakee is an iOS app that helps you recreate photos for before/after comparisons, timelapses, and hyperlapses — perfect for capturing progress and changes over time.

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June 26, 2024

Easily validate max file size based on your settings in php.ini

In several projects, I've noticed that it can be useful to validate max filesize against the `upload_max_filesize` in php.ini. Let's take a look at how to write a validation rule to achieve this.

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June 13, 2024

My First Day Learning iOS Development

After quite a long time solely in web development, I decided I’d like to try to extend my knowledge a bit. Because I’ve always eyed iOS development and wrote a simple game about eight years ago, I decided I wanted to give it a proper go.

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June 11, 2024

403 error while installing Puppeteer on Ubuntu

I’ve been using Puppeteer quite a lot for OG image generation. I’ve installed it many times without any issues, but on my last attempt, I kept getting a 403 error, when trying to download Chromium. So today I will share how I made it work, even though it is more of a workaround rather than an actual solution.

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May 20, 2024

How to structure your routes in Laravel

Let me show you, how I like to structure routes inside my Laravel applications into multiple files and how to automate the route registration process.

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May 6, 2024

How to make Laravel Reverb work on Laravel Forge

I finally found the time to swap Pusher for Laravel Reverb. And while locally everything was straightforward, on production I got stuck for a really long time. I managed to make it work and I want to share the solution so that we can utilize this amazing tool such as Laravel Reverb.

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May 5, 2024

How to change the default SSR port for Inertia.js

Recently I had to run two Inertia.js applications on a single server and both of these applications are using SSR. To achieve this it is necessary to use different ports, but there is a gotcha which can ruin your SEO.

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April 18, 2024

Writing simple Chrome extension

Recently, Google removed clickable map links from search results in the EU. Let's see how we can write a Chrome extension to fix it.

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April 16, 2024

Installing Umami analytics on Laravel Forge

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. Let's see how we can install it on Laravel Forge.

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March 30, 2024

Hello

Hey, I'm Tony - Full Stack developer from Prague.

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