Things Laravel Made Me Believe
summary
Advocates a concrete set of claims: prioritize care (tiny UX choices like routing comments, helper functions and branded naming), favor the API over Purity, and maintain healthy distrust. Shows tools built or adopted — Laracasts, Laravel Elixir (a gulp wrapper), scheduler, Cashier — and says they shipped and stuck because the APIs feel natural. Uses vivid examples (Inception song timing 2m28s vs film 2h28m, global helpers replacing extra use statements) to argue simpler, user‑focused APIs win.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:55Presentation
- 2:54Things I believe
- 8:10Writing software is hard
- 10:05Everyone knows everything
- 13:44Do you really understand
- 19:58The worst part
- 23:50Learning from unrelated industries
- 25:39Examples of care
- 26:53Pixar
- 30:57Comments
- 38:42Simplicity
- 40:32Artisan Commands
- 45:44Distrust
- 50:56Laravel Elixir
- 52:17Conclusion
