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Joel Clermont
@jclermont
Helping Laravel devs ship better products and level up their skills
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Did you know there is a validation rule in Laravel that it is impossible to make fail? In today's video, I show what this rule is and why it's still a valuable rule.
masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-12-12-video-why-the-nullable-validation-rule-is-useful
Sometimes I wish I was building fancier apps that required matrix algebra or cryptography, not the simple CRUD apps that pay my bills. But recently, I was having fun building a video player and got to dust off an operator I rarely use.
masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-12-11-a-simple-use-case-for-the-modulus-operator
There's value in shipping something, anything, at least once a day. Even if it's just part of a bigger feature, it promotes team communication and has other benefits too.
masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-12-10-republished-ship-something-every-day
I had a unique situation where a config value could come from an environment variable or fall back to a more expensive lookup. Here's a simple way to avoid doing the expensive work when it's not needed.
masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-12-09-lazy-loading-a-backup-configuration-value
One of my favorite Orbstack features is automatic certificate generation for my local dev environment, but this causes an inconvenience since my app now sits behind a proxy. Here's how I fix it without any code changes.
masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-12-08-a-clean-way-to-detect-https-behind-a-proxy-in-development