The most practical screencasts for developers

Joined July 2009
Last week on Youtube was about what happens after you cancel a Laravel job batch — middleware to skip jobs, finally callbacks to detect intent, and cleaning up related records on delete. Episode is up if you missed it. youtu.be/6aHEJSviWt4
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This week: canceling a running batch, skipping jobs with middleware, and using the finally callback to tell the difference between cancellation and failure. Episode is up. youtu.be/6aHEJSviWt4
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New Youtube Video! we're looking at something that comes up the moment you start building anything with job batches in Laravel — what happens when you need to stop mid-run. The episode drops Friday. youtu.be/6aHEJSviWt4
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This week was about attaching metadata to Laravel jobs so your UI doesn't need to hardcode anything. Title, description, dynamic values from the model — all stored at dispatch time. Full episode: youtu.be/9rrz4MhmXGY
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This week: storing metadata on queued jobs, enforcing a title/description interface, and making job labels dynamic from the model. The full episode is on YouTube: youtu.be/9rrz4MhmXGY
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This week was about getting Dusk's database setup right — separate MySQL database, correct env file, migrations running cleanly. Easy to skip early on, annoying to fix later. Full episode if you missed it. youtu.be/ZIjZWXZSq5U
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Spent the week on Dusk database isolation — why in-memory SQLite doesn't work, wiring up a separate MySQL database, and what RefreshDatabase actually does in a browser test context. This one holds up. youtu.be/ZIjZWXZSq5U
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This week was about what happens before a route is matched — building a request object from PHP globals, binding it to the container via a service provider, and understanding what PSR-7 actually standardises. Full episode here if you missed it. youtu.be/mb4esYv5gXg
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This week we've been looking at how a PHP framework handles requests from the ground up — PSR-7, service providers, container bindings, superglobals. The episode that started it is on YouTube if you want to follow along. youtu.be/mb4esYv5gXg
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Auth in a Nuxt + Laravel real-time app isn't a side concern — it's the foundation.  Everything that needs to be in place before private channels make sense. youtu.be/8VTVKV9EgoA
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