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Hey! We're Norday, a Digital Design & Innovation Agency based in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Welcome to our tech blog, where we share our thoughts and experiments.

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  • October 29, 2024

    How to use Laravel Sanctum for SPA authentication

    Learn how to set up and use Laravel Sanctum for secure SPA authentication in your projects.

    8 min read
  • September 30, 2024

    Merge existing codebases into a monorepo

    Do you have multiple repositories that you want to merge into one, without losing the Git history?

    5 min read
  • June 27, 2024

    How to set up a useful README file for your Github project

    Learn how to create an effective README file for your GitHub project with tips on structure and content

    7 min read
  • April 29, 2024

    Case Study: Accessible and reliable tech for Schoolwijzer

    Crafting accessible, high-performing websites: see our approach in action with Schoolwijzer.

    8 min read
  • March 27, 2024

    Permission problem with embedding featured media via the WordPress REST API

    How to solve the rest_forbidden error.

    6 min read
  • February 26, 2024

    How to use map, filter, and reduce in JavaScript

    A tutorial about the three most important functions in JavaScript.

    13 min read
  • November 30, 2023

    How to import big spreadsheets

    Tips for importing big spreadsheets into a MySQL database.

    8 min read
  • August 28, 2023

    Transform WordPress into a headless CMS

    Follow our advice to ensure a smooth headless experience with WordPress

    10 min read
  • June 15, 2023

    Tips to make your codebase future developer friendly

    After frustrating experiences with codebases, I created this list to, hopefully, prevent that frustration in the future.

    8 min read
  • November 30, 2022

    Melkweg.nl - Serving over 30,000 web pages blazingly fast.

    An insight into how we made the new website for the Melkweg fast and snappy.

    8 min read
  • November 6, 2022

    Change cache driver for Laravel Task Scheduler onOneServer

    With onOneServer you can prevent jobs from executing on multiple workers. But how to use another cache driver?

    3 min read
  • August 24, 2022

    The smallest PHP version switcher

    A really quick PHP version switcher built with Homebrew

    4 min read
  • August 9, 2022

    Deploying your PHP application to an Amazon Auto Scaling Group with Deployer

    This article tells you how to deploy your PHP application to an Amazon ASG, using Deployer.

    9 min read
  • June 24, 2022

    Dutch PHP Conference

    Conference report: our notes and takeaways from the Dutch PHP Conference.

    6 min read
  • May 2, 2022

    Statically analyze your Laravel 9 application with PHPStan

    This article shows how to enrich your Laravel application with type hints so you can reap the benefits of static analysis.

    12 min read
  • July 30, 2021

    How to ensure only a single model has a certain value in Laravel?

    What if only a single record in your database is allowed to have a certain value for a given property?

    6 min read
  • February 2, 2021

    Validating a multi-column unique key in Laravel Nova

    How do you incorporate the rules for a unique key consisting of multiple columns in Laravel Nova?

    6 min read
  • January 8, 2020

    Simply Static Deploy: static site generator and deploy plugin for WordPress

    Generate a static version of your WordPress site and deploy it to an AWS S3 bucket.

    8 min read
  • December 3, 2019

    Case Study: Serverless architecture for The Ocean Cleanup

    Migrating from a dynamic monolithic CMS approach to a statically hosted WordPress site with microservices.

    10 min read
  • October 10, 2019

    Guidelines for Dutch governmental websites

    Make your governmental website comply with the Dutch guidelines.

    10 min read
  • September 25, 2019

    Our WordPress Pro setup

    A WordPress boilerplate, including dependency management, multi-environment deployment strategies and front-end tooling.

    9 min read
  • July 29, 2018

    Challenges with doing recursion in PHP

    Struggles and successes.

    9 min read

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