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Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Alfred Danda, and I am the co-founder of Ideenreich, a web development agency focused on Laravel, based in Graz, Austria.

I have been working with Laravel for more than 10 years and have extensive experience with the framework and its ecosystem. This includes both new applications developed from scratch as well as existing projects that we take over and bring up to date.

On this blog, I write about technical topics mainly related to Laravel.

Travelling through time in Laravel tests

Laravel makes it easy to handle time-sensitive tests with its travel helper, a feature that allows you to simulate time shifts with a single line of code. In this guide, we'll walk through testing a login rate limiter, ensuring users are properly blocked after multiple failed attempts. Instead of relying on slow, manual pauses, this approach keeps your test suite fast.

Using MailHog with Lando

MailHog and Lando are both very useful open source tools for local web development. In this post, I'll show you how to bring them together for a better experience when working with mail in local development.

How to get rid of slow health checks on lando start

Since version 3.14 Lando introduced a new health check scanner when starting a project. In this post I show you how you can configure the new scanner and get rid of slow health checks on lando start.

How to use Lando for local development with Laravel

One of the common problems when working on web apps is that you need to have a local environment that is as close as possible to the production environment. If you are working in a team it is important that you can share the local environment one way or the other too. In this post I show you how you can solve this problem by using Lando, a local development environment.