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Luke Downing
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Teacher @laracasts | Core team @pestphp | Public speaker pinkary.com/@LukeDowning19
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    Luke Downing
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    Aug 22, 2024
    If you can't attend Laracon US, I promise you'll be able to watch my talk soon. Can't wait for you to see it! Also can't wait to cover all of the incredible new releases coming 👀
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    Aug 22, 2024
    If you're unable to make it to @LaraconUS next week, rest assured that we will be covering all of the important announcements and new features. The entire team will be working on it. And if you ARE able to attend, look forward to @LukeDowning19's excellent talk on Day 1. :)
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    Luke Downing
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    May 1, 2023
    Announcement time 👀 I can now reveal that I've officially joined the amazing team @laracasts! 🥳 I'm beyond excited to be able to spend more time creating content and help as many in the community take their skills to the next level 🏄 See you at laracasts.com
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    Luke Downing
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    Aug 29, 2024
    Can we give it up one more time for @aarondfrancis? The amount of work that man has put into the last few days has been nothing short of incredible. Maximum effort as ever.
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    Luke Downing
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    Feb 18, 2023
    Here's a pretty cool Eloquent tip: you can combine `where` with a `match` statement to clean up what would otherwise be multiple if statements 😎
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    Luke Downing
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    Oct 16, 2021
    In the next #Laravel release you'll be able to use `--test` or `--pest` on various artisan make commands to generate matching @phpunit or @pestphp tests 😎 This makes it simpler than ever to start writing tests for your apps ✅ github.com/laravel/framew…
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    Luke Downing
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    May 28, 2021
    After some 🔥 tweaks from @taylorotwell, Blade stringable support was merged into #Laravel today. So happy with the final syntax, its soooooooo squeaky clean. Look out for it in next week's release! 🥳
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    Luke Downing
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    Mar 12, 2024
    Reverb is so easy to set up 🤩 - `php artisan install:broadcasting` - `php artisan make:event` - Implement `ShouldBroadcast` with a channel name - Use Echo to listen This demo took 5 minutes to set up, and I've never seen Reverb before today. Amazing work.
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    Luke Downing
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    Apr 26, 2024
    I've been interested in passkeys (passwordless auth) for some time now. The problem is, it's pretty complex, so adoption has been pretty slow in the Laravel community ☹️ So, I've been hacking on a package that makes it a breeze to integrate. Here's a sneak peek 👀
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    Luke Downing
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    Jun 5, 2024
    Here's seamless Passkey integration in a @LaravelLivewire app 😎 The JS is so minimal that I opted to do it using Livewire's inline `js` method 👌 Hoping to do a mini-series on this soon on @laracasts
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    Luke Downing
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    Nov 25, 2023
    After seeing @aarondfrancis great video on self-healing URLs the other day and needing something similar myself, I decided to put together a little POC package 📦 github.com/lukeraymonddow…
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    Luke Downing
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    May 23, 2022
    I'm proud to present "Request Factories" by Worksome - a brand new way to make testing requests in Laravel even better 😎 More details below...
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    GitHub - worksome/request-factories: Test requests in Laravel without all the boilerplate.
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    Luke Downing
    @LukeDowning19
    Aug 24, 2021
    🥳 We're thrilled to announce that @pestphp now has support for parallel testing! We've been working hard on this feature for a long time — we hope you enjoy it. ⛽️ 💨 downing.tech/blog/pest-para…
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    Luke Downing
    @LukeDowning19
    Nov 15, 2023
    New MacBook arrived this morning 🥳 Thanks to Laravel Herd, DBngin and Jetbrains Toolbox I was up and running in less than an hour 🚀 No junk. No mess. Pure DX joy. PHP tooling has never been better 😎
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    Luke Downing
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    Jan 6, 2022
    What are your thoughts on something like this in #laravel? When using groups, what if you could define the controller once, then just reference the controller methods? Just trying to gauge interest before I do anything about it 🤔
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