The genesis of the "Hello World" programs

— The “Hello World” program is the first program that most people write when they are learning a new programming language. It’s so widespread that even outside of the programming world, it’s used as a reference to the first step towards learning something new.

Eloquent Strict Mode in Laravel

— Laravel’s Eloquent is a pretty powerful ORM. It allows you to seamlessly interact with your database tables using a simple and expressive syntax. But sometimes, it can be a little too forgiving about the mistakes you make while interacting with the database.

Transparent VS Code is a thing!

— VS Code extensions have a reputation for customizing it according to your wild dreams. And sure enough, the extension that I’m going to talk about in this article is no different.

Things I write about

— I have been writing on my blog for well over 8 years now but more than 70% of articles have been published only in the last 3-4 years. So, what’s changed?

Tabbing out of brackets and quotes in VS Code

— How many times have you been in a situation where you’re typing a string in VS Code and you want to tab out of the string to continue typing the rest of the code? Or, you’re typing a function and you want to tab out of the brackets to continue typing the rest of the code?

Ensure type uniformity of a collection in Laravel

— Sometimes, you may want to ensure that a collection in Laravel contains only a specific type of item. For instance, you may want to ensure that a collection contains only a string type of item. Or, you may want to ensure that a collection contains items of a specific class.

Mixing colors to create variants in CSS

— If you go to paint shops and show them a color that you want to buy and they don’t have the exact color, they will mix different colors to create the same color you want. This is how they create variants of colors.