Bert De Swaef

I built my own AI Assistant chatbot in Laravel 🤖 No JS framework. Real-time with Livewire. Powered by PrismPHP. 🎥 Full breakdown here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oB...

🎮 Built a real-time multiplayer game with Laravel, Livewire & Reverb! Yes, Laravel can handle real-time gameplay 🚀 Here’s how I did it: 🔗 youtu.be/tm-9ala3Fjw #Laravel #Livewire #Reverb #PHP

Went all out today. Not my best swim, strong on the bike, suffered during the run. The conditions were brutal tho. #Triathlon

Just hit 4,000 subscribers on YouTube! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone learning and coding along with me. Can’t wait to share more Laravel, PHP & JS tutorials soon 💻✨ #CodeWithBurt

My Saturday Nights. - Feed the kids 🍟 - Put kids to bed 😴 - Bake Pizza with the misses 🍕 - Pour a good bottle of Italian red wine 🍷 - Eat pizza while watching our sitcom 📺 How about you guys? Mine's not bad right. 😁👌✌️

It's time.

While I'm only trying to do good for the community. 🤷‍♂️ I have to say this touches me somehow. 🫤

Laravel devs — 6 security mistakes hackers love. Are they in your app? Fix them now. Watch here: youtu.be/MBOSeHvmshQ #Laravel #Security

3900 times Thank You!🙏

🚴‍♂️ New tutorial! Build a Laravel Headless API with a React Frontend to visualize the Tour de France 2025 stages. Perfect for devs wanting to level up full stack skills 💻💡 🎬 Watch here: youtu.be/UZ9wZ13c8ik #Laravel #React #FullStack #TourDeFrance #Coding

I haven’t been creating as much lately — work has been heavy, and my focus hasn’t been where I want it. That said, I’m recalibrating and making space to get back to what I love. More soon.

Did a thing yesterday. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

The Unofficial Laravel Swimming Club. @driesvints.com will do good in his first triathlon.

I've been playing around with an idea for the past weeks. Today I went full gazz on it and I must say, it will be good. 🏕️🏔️🏖️

This video is still accurate when it comes to creating datatables with Livewire. #livewire #laravel #php youtu.be/Z_QQQdNopp4

One of my favorite features in the Laravel Framework is the withoutOverlapping() method when it comes to scheduling tasks. 😁🙏 It's smart and makes us feel safe about our scheduled command not messing up data. 🛟 What is yours? ❓

Those comments on my YouTube Channel lately... 😍 Thanks for all the kind words.

@burtds.bsky.social just gave his Helping out frustrated Bob talk at @phpxbru.com! Turns out you can do so much with a really simple stack when you’re using @laravel.com 🧐

Our Buddy @freek.bsky.social at @phpxbru.com Showing us some of his favorite packages.

Ready for a meetup tonight...

🚨 New Quick Win Wednesday! Here is how you can Master your Paginator in Laravel. 😁 youtu.be/1jKROLNiIdU #laravel #php #tailwind

I'm not that comfortable crafting frontend stuff. People who know me know this... But I've been playing around with v0 by @vercel.com and I must say, this puts me back in there with confidence.

Picture this. I'm coding during twilight at a campsite.

Want to know what your user's laptop battery is doing? Here is how you can find out with JavaScript. We're using the navigator API to do so.... youtu.be/dRrdrNOBaR8 #battery #javascript

Who loves to go camping? I may be building something. 😁

🚨 New Video Alert! 🚨 I just reviewed @spatie.be 's One-Time Password package on YouTube. 🎥Watch now: youtu.be/kHdhOtkP-IU #Laravel #PHP #Spatie #WebDev #OTP

🔥 Dropped a new Quick Win Wednesday! Here is how we use Enum::cases in Laravel. Go Watch, Like, Subscribe & Share! youtu.be/RYaIADKpRC0 #laravel #tutorial

👀 Oh yes, building stuff 🔥

Here are our June 19th speakers! - Bert De Swaef @burtds.bsky.social - Freek Van der Herten @freek.bsky.social Hold on to your knickers, it's going to be amazing! Sign up: eventy.io/events/j4gkr...

🚀 Just turned off my lights with my @laravel.com App, which is hosted on Forge. I'm using Pinout by Dan Johnson to control my GPIO's 🔥 🎥 Watch the magic: youtu.be/L6BeUn177HE #laravel #raspberrypi #iot #php #livewire #forge

Just tagged a new release of my vatnumber package. github.com/BurtDS/larav...

Thinking about doing a livestream tomorrow afternoon. Building something from scratch, the complete process... But what should we build?

🎥 New Video! Want to validate EU VAT numbers in your Laravel app? I will walk you through how to use my package: ✅ burtds/laravel-vatnumber-checker Super simple, super useful. Check it out here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRK9... #Laravel #PHP #VAT #OpenSource #WebDev

My VAT number checker package just passed 50,000 downloads! Thanks for being part of this journey—whether you contributed, or just used it. Y’all rock. 💙

I was asked by Ariel for an interview. Kinda fun 😁 youtu.be/PABHYt18jUU?...

Morning!

New video idea, but I want to do this one completely different. Maybe today is the day...

🚨New Video! Observers vs Event Listeners Explained 🔥 And I've got a new setup. 😁 Go watch! #php #laravel #tutorial youtu.be/yBWcJrwswuU

It's my wife's birthday, and this is her happy place.

This is wild, 91,7% of the viewers on my channel aren't subscribed. 🤔

Seems I accidentally live-streamed while testing out some new setup stuff. I'm very sorry for that!

I wrote a blogpost on the difference between Observers and Event Listeners. 📝 Go read! bert.gent/articles/202...

🔥 About 10 months ago, I created this video on how to become a debugging wizard with Ray, a powerhouse tool by @spatie.be I still use it in my daily workflow... 🤓 youtu.be/USy_-Rn7hns #workflow #debugging #php #laravel

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Hey guys! I'm planning some cool stuff over the next few months. I'll be doing some livestreaming! I'm now on Twitch — go follow me there: www.twitch.tv/burtds The streams will also be broadcast to YouTube. So if you're not subscribed yet, go hit that button: www.youtube.com/@codewithburt

Looks like I'll be putting together a workshop. 👀

🚀 I spoke at two Laracons, and I’ve got 2 surprises for you! 👀 One will level up your dev workflow. The other? Let’s say you’ll want to get your hands on it. 🤫 Any guesses? Drop them below & watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOn... #Laracon #DevCommunity #publicSpeaking

Had an Idea today.... Resulted on me buying 9 domain names... 🤷‍♂️

🚨 Big News ! You can now order tshirts! I'll be adding other designs soon. burtds-shop.fourthwall.com

It's monday! Let's go!