Carol Pelu

Second most tallest chap in the neighbourhood. Sometimes my sense of humor causes abdominal pain. I am not yet famous for something.

How to Efficiently Check if a Record Exists

Learn how to greatly improve the performance when checking if a record exists in the database.

Find out how to set the default value of a timestamp column to the current timestamp in a Laravel migration and why it’s a good practice.

Learn why the “Delete ‘CR’ eslint(prettier/prettier)” error occurs and how to resolve it in 4 different ways.

Learn how to set different tab sizes per file type wit this step-by-step tutorial.

Find out how to disable the auto file open on drag and drop in VS Code.

Find out how to set a default browser of your choice in VS Code.

Learn how to enforce the ‘Accept: application/json’ header for client requests, and send an error message if it’s missing.

Inspire or motivate yourself with quotes directly in the command line while working with Laravel.

I use this approach to mark a database record as deleted in 99% of cases.

Learn how to fix the flickering that occurs in Git Bash and Vim in Windows Terminal.