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Freek Van der Herten
Personal blog · freek.devprogrammingwebai
Freek Van der Herten's personal blog at freek.dev covers programming, web and ai. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The freek.dev newsletter on Laravel, PHP and JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers point to Freek Van der Herten's blog for Laravel and PHP content, noting how openly he shares his code and covering newer PHP features.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Freek Van der Herten writes about Laravel, PHP and AI. Co-owner of Spatie, maintainer of 300+ open source packages with over 2 billion downloads.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-08
- The freek.dev newsletter on Laravel, PHP and JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-12
What Hacker News says?
If you’re into Laravel and PHP, Freek is very open about all his code: https://freek.dev I also blog about code and the financial side of running your own business: https://ma.ttias.be
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Show HN: We created over 200 PHP packages as a story · 8 points
HN discussionJust wanna dump a bunch of similar PHP sites you might find useful: (The only proper) PDO tutorial: https://phpdelusions.net/pdo/ Organize a php project according to industry best practice: https://github.com/thephpleague/skeleton PHP Best Practices - A short, practical guide for common and confusing PHP tasks: https://phpbestpractices.org/ Modern PHP Cheat Sheet - A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features:…
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on “PHP – The Right Way”Submitted Show HN: Selling digital products using Paddle, GitHub, Vimeo and more as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe guys behind it work at Spatie[1] which you have probably heard of some of their packages, and Freek has a blog[2] that has a lot of PHP stuff on - lots Laravel, and lots just general new language stuff (covering PHP8 features etc) [1] https://spatie.be [2] https://freek.dev
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on “Modern PHP Cheat Sheet”Submitted Show HN: Building a real time dashboard using by server rendered partials as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't use down migrations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mailcoach v6: self-host your email marketing platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making 1Password understand where your change password page is located as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manage Docker Containers Using PHP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Beautiful Status Pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flare: An error tracker built for Laravel apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ignition: A new error page for Laravel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP's Bus Factor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Webmentions to a PHP Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generate Apple and Google Wallet Passes from Laravel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Claude Code Setup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A clean API for reading PHP attributes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to automatically generate a commit message using Claude as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving an Array Reduce Interview Question in PHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The freek.dev newsletter on Laravel, PHP and JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving PHP Tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically convert your code to PHP 7.4 syntax using Rector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My current setup (2019 edition) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The value of the void typehint in PHP as a story · 1 points
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