Andreas
Alsterholm

Blog

Every now and then, I decide to jot down some thoughts I've had that may or may not be interesting for others to read. You can find my musings down below.

A Case For Custom Collections

2024-10-16
Laravel
Collections
I recently submitted a pull request to the Laravel framework to add a new Eloquent attribute called CollectedBy. In short, it allows you to use an attribute to configure your Eloquent model to use a specific Collection class, rather than the default...
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Using Models as Flags

2024-06-07
Laravel
Database
One thing I've been experimenting with lately, with positive results, is using models as flags. When you need to flag one of your models somehow, you might add a boolean to your table to indicate a certain status. For example, let's say you add a fea...
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Structuring Your Livewire Projects

2024-05-10
Livewire
Project structure
A while ago I refactored a rather large Livewire application at work to use a pattern inspired by Caleb’s fantastic Data Table series (if you haven’t watched those series yet you should just stop reading this right now and go watch them right now, th...
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A Website, At Last!

2024-05-01
Website
Alright, so I finally got this thing set up! It's been years since I last had a website, and it's a bit overdue, but anyways—here it is! There's not very much to it yet, but the website is open source and available to view on GitHub for those who are...
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