Hi 👋, My name is
Abdul-fattah Tayih
I'm a Software Engineer
I mainly work on solving complex problems in the backend, creating services and APIs that mobile apps and web frontends use.
Latest from the blog
Effective code reviews with PR chunks
Published on August 13, 2024
If your PR takes a while to be reviewed, approved in a suspiciously fast manner or is exclusively full of nits then it could be your fault!
Fix broken laravel valet installation on MacOS
Published on June 15, 2023
Fix laravel valet not starting and throwing errors in the console due to not finding a PHP executable, or file not found by doing a clean install
Setup a Laravel development environemnt on Windows with WSL2
Published on October 01, 2022
Setup a fully functioning development enviroment for Laravel on windows using WSL2 and ubuntu, you get to daily Windows and develop apps on linux just as god intended!
Translating form fields in Laravel
Published on May 11, 2022
Translate form fields names, whether they belong in a web form or an API response so these names can be readable by the user in their selected language when validation fails
Conditionally loading relations in Laravel resources
Published on April 29, 2022
Avoid N+1 query problem in resources especially when you have nested resources in a response, and cut down json parsing time by eliminating ununsed data from it