Hey! I'm Dasun Tharanga.

I'm a Full-stack Laravel developer who creates open-source packages, produces YouTube videos, and helps organizations grow their businesses.

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Now You Can Do More with Laravel Mails Using Custom Markdown Extensions

We recently needed richer email formatting at Jacasa, so I opened a PR to Laravel that was merged by Taylor Otwell. This update lets you register built-in or custom Markdown extensions for Laravel mails.

How We Made Our Multi-Tenant Tests 25x Faster with Stancl Tenancy Package

Our test suite was getting painfully slow. We're talking 5 minutes for a full run in Pest with parallel mode on, and 1-3 seconds per individual test. The worst part? On GitHub Actions, this ballooned to around 30 minutes. For a multi-tenant Laravel app in active development, this was absolutely killing our momentum.

How @context Broke Our Site and What You Can Learn From It

Avoid unexpected Blade errors by wrapping non-Blade directive, such as those in JSON-LD scripts, with the @verbatim directive.

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dasundev/livewire-dropzone

A Livewire Dropzone component for simple drag-and-drop file uploads.

dasundev/livewire-quill-text-editor

A powerful livewire rich text editor component built top of Quill.

dasundev/filament-access-secret

Secures access to Filament by requiring a secret key in the URL.