Sebastian De Deyne

I'm a designer and full-stack developer from Ghent, Belgium. I work at a small but mighty web agency in Antwerp called Spatie. We specialize in Laravel development, and have released a lot of open source packages.

Over the years, I've dabbled in backend development, frontend development, design, and more recently product and project management.

July, 2022
- Using markdown in HTML (in markdown) in Hugo
June, 2022
- Non-reactive data in Alpine.js
February, 2022
- Composable seeders in Laravel with callOnce
January, 2022
- Laravel Blade & View Models
December, 2021
- Using MySQL `order by` while keeping one value at the end
November, 2021
- Eloquent findOrFail caveats
August, 2021
- The Monetization Trap
- Ebb and flow
July, 2021
- Use Blink to execute something once and only once
- Adding backlinks to a GitHub wiki
- Finding out which ports are in use
- Leaner feature branches
June, 2021
- Introducing Laravel Google Fonts
April, 2021
- Why we use `!important` with Tailwind
- File watching with chokidar
- Self-hosting Google Fonts
- Lessons from Atomic Habits
- Reusable Alpine Components by Ryan Chandler
- The window.matchMedia API
- Clearing personal data from inactive accounts
March, 2021
- The Record type in TypeScript
- Tim MacDonald on HasOne relationships in Laravel
- Vite with Laravel: Using Inertia.js
- Antilibrary: the perfect excuse to buy more books
- Vite with Laravel: Using TypeScript
- Vite with Laravel: Using React
- Vite with Laravel: Using Vue.js
- Vite with Laravel: Using Tailwind CSS
- Vite with Laravel: Auto-refresh Blade views
- Vite with Laravel
- How to do a case sensitive file rename in git on macOS
- Self-deprecating comments
- macOS settings I always customize
- Twitter Break
February, 2021
- The complexity that lives in the GUI
January, 2021
- jq
December, 2020
- Consistency
- When to add types and when to infer in TypeScript
- Local-first software
November, 2020
- Masonry layouts with CSS grid
October, 2020
- Embed a web page with a web component and the shadow DOM
- Going deep
- BlurHash
- Options, Not Roadmaps
- Sublime is still sublime
- How to schedule posts on a static Hugo site with Netlify and GitHub Actions
- Building on the web isn't building for the web
- The revamped Spatie guidelines
September, 2020
- Laravel Typescript Transformer
- A rare look into the decision making process of a large project
- Why Do We Interface
- Dont Get Stuck
- A Tale of Client Side Framework Performance
- Moment.js, thank you for your service
August, 2020
- Things you didn't know you could diff in GitHub
July, 2020
- Rsync
June, 2020
- Effective task management with Things
- Caption images with markdown render hooks in Hugo
- Middleware as a Laravel service provider
- Zipping
May, 2020
- Unlearning
- Builders and architects
- Complexity has to live somewhere
- Refactoring callbacks to async/await
- Enter & leave transitions
April, 2020
- Shotgun upgrade your npm dependencies with yarn upgrade --latest
- Enabling basic HTTP authentication with nginx on a Laravel Forge provisioned server
- Gary Bernhardt on tests and TypeScript
March, 2020
- Webmentions on a static site with GitHub Actions
- Unix things I always forget
- Listing directories
- Composer, semver, and underlying dependency changes
- Setting up a global .gitignore file
- Privacy and having nothing to hide
- Upgrading Node.js on a Laravel Forge Provisioned Server
- Dropdowns
February, 2020
- Give it five minutes
- File structure
- Event delegation
- Selecting elements (part 2)
- Selecting elements (part 1)
- JavaScript Framework Diet
January, 2020
- Mailcoach's (lack of) JavaScript stack
- What are the React team principles?
December, 2019
- The rising complexity of JAMstack sites
- Strawberry jelly
- Advent of Code 2019
November, 2019
- Thoughts (and doubts) after messing around with the JAMstack
- Shop-built jigs
- Important ideas come back
- The rule of least power
- Full Stack Europe 2019 recap
- Handling authorization in a Laravel and Inertia application
- Akin's laws of spacecraft design
October, 2019
- Prioritization systems
- Writing open source software, and staying sane while at it
- Materials and tools
- Disappointed
- Laravel Mix Preload v1
- Takuya Matsuyama’s take on growth
- Writing a custom React hook: Google Places autocomplete
- This site now supports dark mode
- React's versioning policy
September, 2019
- Live updating Oh Dear! status pages: Livewire edition with Caleb Porzio
- Inertia.js and Livewire: a high level comparison
- Handling routes in a Laravel and Inertia app
- Live updating Oh Dear! status pages
- How much JavaScript do we really need?
August, 2019
- Fast software, the best software
June, 2019
- Adding webmentions to my blog
- Forget about component lifecycles and start thinking in effects
- Migrating my site to Hugo
- My favorite part of our company website
May, 2019
- React for Vue developers
- Full Stack Radio 114: React for Vue developers
- 14 KB
- Understand React hooks internals with a 28-line React clone
- Running PHP CS Fixer on every commit with husky and lint-staged
April, 2019
- Web components
- Why I prefer React over Vue
- Don’t forget to be selfish every now and then
- Keep your assets Prettier on every commit
January, 2019
- The great divide
- An introduction to Phoenix LiveView
December, 2018
- Not all code is the same
- Hindsight 2018 edition
- Everyone has JavaScript, right?
- iA Writer 5.2 will embrace variable fonts
- A blogging style guide
- Bézier moi
- Readability is relative
- Chris Ferdinandi's CSS methodology
November, 2018
- Highlighting code blocks with league/commonmark
August, 2018
- Mo' models mo' problems
July, 2018
- Distraction-less user interfaces: Delayed transient states
May, 2018
- Vue templates in JSX
April, 2018
- A good issue
- Code splitting with Laravel Mix
- Design Details: Incremental Correctness with Guillermo Rauch
March, 2018
- Server side rendering JavaScript from PHP
February, 2018
- A pair of helping hands when naming things
- Blade component aliases in Laravel 5.6
January, 2018
- Passing data to layouts in Blade through extends
- Christoph Rumpel on rebuilding his site with Laravel
October, 2017
- Debugging the dreaded "Class log does not exist" error in Laravel
- Nordic.js 2017 recap
August, 2017
- Diving into requestAnimationFrame with Benjamin De Cock
- Theme-based views in Laravel using vendor namespaces
- Introducing our company guidelines site
- What's in our .babelrc?
- Generate pdfs with Google Chrome on a Forge provisioned server
July, 2017
- Using registered event listeners as conditionals in Vue
- Is snapshot testing viable in PHP?
- Fragmentation is fabulous
June, 2017
- Exposing multiple Vue components as a plugin
May, 2017
- TypeScript with Laravel Mix
- The list function & practical uses of array destructuring in PHP
April, 2017
- Automatically running PHPUnit with Watchman
March, 2017
- A package for snapshot testing in PHPUnit
February, 2017
- Non-breaking, SEO friendly urls in Laravel
December, 2016
- Dealing with templates in Vue.js 2.0
May, 2016
- Using a database for localization in Laravel
March, 2016
- Normalize your values on input
February, 2016
- Adventure Time with Webpack