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My setup for PHP / Laravel development on Apple Silicon M1
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My setup for PHP / Laravel development on Apple Silicon M1

At the end of 2020 my trusty mid-2014 MacBook Pro died and was replaced with the latest generation MacBook Pro, running an Apple Silicon M1 Pro processor. The change in architecture away from Intel to Apples own ARM based CPU meant that some software would no longer run on my

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George Buckingham Jan 2, 2022 • 4 min read
Laravel Upserts: How to batch import data efficiently
Laravel

Laravel Upserts: How to batch import data efficiently

Released on 13 October 2020, Laravel 8.10 came with the addition of the new upsert() method on the database query builder (and therefore Eloquent based queries too). This allows you to perform "insert or update" queries far more efficiently - which will help when importing large batches of data.

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George Buckingham Oct 24, 2020 • 5 min read
What's new in Laravel 8?
Laravel

What's new in Laravel 8?

As I'm sure you heard if you follow along with the Laravel community, the latest Laracon event was held on Wednesday, which was hosted online instead of the usual summer conference in the US. There were 15 fantastic speakers, but there was one that everybody was waiting for. Taylor Otwell

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George Buckingham Aug 29, 2020 • 12 min read
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