Tony Messias

Tony Messias

Lead Programmer

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New in Parental v1.5.0: Becoming, Integers, and Eager-Loading
· Tony Messias
Parental v1.5.0 introduces three new features for Single Table Inheritance in Laravel: types can now transition to other types with the become() method, you can use integer columns instead of strings, and new eager-loading helpers like loadChildren() make it easy to load relationships across your inheritance hierarchy.
Article
Introducing Rich Text Laravel - Part 2

User Mentions With Content Attachments

· Tony Messias
In our previous Rich Text post, we implemented file attachments using the Rich Text Laravel package, but we've only touched the surface of Trix...
Article
Introducing Rich Text Laravel

A package to integrate Trix into Laravel applications

· Tony Messias
When we build forms for an application, it's common to need a field where a plain textarea isn't enough. So how do we proceed? We could process it on the backend and treat the input as Markdown, but this requires manual configuration and can often be...
Article
New: Install Takeout with Docker
· Tony Messias
Takeout is a convenient layer on top of Docker that lets you quickly spin up services without looking up the images and how to run them. Need a Redis service locally? Run:...
Article
Optimistic UI Tricks for Livewire and Alpine
· Tony Messias,  Omar Rida
There's been a lot of debate in the last few weeks on the merits of building web apps with HTML-over-the-wire vs. using popular JavaScript libraries like Vue and React, and how that choice affects the experiences of end users and developers....
Article
Kill Switches: Interrupting Long-Running Processes
· Tony Messias
A kill switch—sometimes known as a “Dead Man’s Switch”—is a type of safety mechanism common in machinery that interrupts a process in the event of an...
podcast
Turbo Laravel with Tony Messias
· Zuzana Kunckova,  Dave Hicking,  Tony Messias
Tony Messias (a programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all about Hotwire & Turbo Laravel - what it is, why he thinks it's interesting, how it works, and more. Transcript Dave Hicking: Welcome to...