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How long do you need to fast? Fat loss / Autophagy

Choosing how long you want to do you fast for can be quite challenging. In order to figure this out you need to know your top priority, it can be ether one of…

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Personal

I fasted for 5 days; Here’s what happened

TLDR: Lost 4,2kg in 5 days without eating, regained 1,8kg 3 days after — losing a little over 2kg For the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing intermittent fasting (IF), slowly decreasing…

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Laravel

Change user agent with the Laravel HTTP Client

In pull request #34611 the undocumented `withUserAgent` method has been added to the Laravel HTTP Client. It’s really easy to use. This has been released in Laravel v8.8.0. If you’re using a Laravel…

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Add Statamic to an existing Laravel app
Laravel

Add Statamic to an existing Laravel app – and let Statamic use its own authentication

We’re gonna install Statamic to use as a CMS into our existing Laravel application. By default Statamic will use the same authentication as the existing application, but we want to use the built in Statamic authentication and not the current application’s authentication.

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Development

Replace querySelector with Alpine.js x-show

I challenged myself to make a screencast, to keep the barrier minimal I decided to start with something small. Here’s my video on how to replace document.querySelector with Alpine.js x-show. Please let me know any feedback…

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How to: Gmail with custom domain – for FREE

TLDR: Make/use existing gmail account, setup a forwarder somehow for your custom domain, send email via the gmail smtp. Dennis 1. Make a gmail account. Just make a new gmail account or use…

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Development

How to get $5000 in AWS credits without breaking the bank

Every business needs hosting right? There are a couple of ways to use the AWS Activate program to get cheap credits. First of all, if you’re a solo founder or a bootstrapped you’re…

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Development

Free Airtable credits and Bubble Professional

Via the magic of the internet I stumbled upon this new website called Secret. You can sign up for free and get acces to some really amazing deals for software you can use to build your business!

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Personal

2019 Year In Review

Initial goals When January 2019 came along, I had some vague goals. The only clear one being, I wanted to see at least 5 countries this year. Other than that I felt like…

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Development

What is up with var, let and const

Assuming you know some JS basics Let’s start with the ‘old’ keyword var for declaring variables. var is top level (aka. global level). Let me show you what that means with an example….

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