Arvid de Jong

Laravel, Livewire and AI. Building websites and AI tools for small businesses at Darvis 🇳🇱 Open source on Packagist. Building in public.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

Toe aan een nieuwe website voor je bedrijf?

Op dit moment zijn het ontwerp en de bouw gratis. Je betaalt alleen € 49,- per maand voor betrouwbare Nederlandse hosting met premium e-mail. De website beheer je daarna gewoon zelf.

Darvis bouwt al 25 jaar maatwerk websites en software. Interesse? Kijk op https://t.co/0GV6Ivls08 of stuur me een bericht.

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Using the Flux Pro rich text editor in your Laravel app? Pull your images and files straight from Laravel Filemanager.

🖼️ Pick one or more images from your own file manager
📎 Insert links to PDFs and other files
↔️ Resize to 25, 50, 75 or 100% and align left, center or right
✏️ Double-click an image to edit alt text, title, classes and styles
📥 Drag, drop or paste images straight into the editor
🩺 php artisan flux-filemanager:check tells you what to fix

Try the live demo first: you get your own sandbox, nothing to install. When you like it:
composer require darvis/livewire-flux-editor-filemanager

Free and MIT licensed. Needs Flux Pro.

Built on the great work of @calebporzio on Livewire and Flux 🙌

#Laravel #Livewire #FluxUI #FileManager #PHP

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

darvis/mailtrap 1.11.0 is out.

A DNS hiccup no longer blocks a real address. The MX check now tells "no mail server" apart from "the resolver timed out": a timeout lets the address through and logs a warning, a missing MX or a Null MX is still refused.

MX hosts with only an IPv6 address now count too.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@ElijahBrownDev Shipped in darvis/mailtrap 1.11.0: Null MX is refused, timeouts and SERVFAIL are logged and let through. Thanks for the nudge.

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Sending mail from your Laravel site through Mailtrap? Know what happened to every mail.

darvis/mailtrap adds:

✅ A recipient check before sending: format and MX lookup for every To, Cc and Bcc
📋 A log of every outgoing mail, linkable to your own models
🔐 A signed Mailtrap webhook for delivery, bounce, spam and reject events
📬 A Livewire and Flux inbox page to search and clean up the log
🧙 php artisan mailtrap:install sets it all up

Validation and logging work with any Laravel mailer; only the webhook needs Mailtrap.

composer require darvis/mailtrap

Find it on Packagist as darvis/mailtrap. Unofficial, free and MIT licensed.

#Laravel #PHP #Mailtrap #Livewire #FluxUI #EmailDeliverability

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@ElijahBrownDev Fair point, and you caught a real gap: right now a timeout ends up as a rejection because getmxrr() returns false either way. I'll split it so only an explicit Null MX is refused and anything inconclusive gets logged and let through.

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https://t.co/0GV6Ivls08

Selling to consumers in the EU? Since September 27 your webshop has to show the new official guarantee information. There's no grace period.

Two things changed:

1. Every webshop must show the EU notice about the legal guarantee of at least two years. Before the purchase, and again in the order confirmation.

2. Does the manufacturer give a free durability guarantee of more than two years? Then the GARAN label goes on the product page itself. A line in your terms isn't enough.

You have to use the official EU designs. Making your own version isn't allowed.

In a well-built webshop this is one field per product and a block in the checkout. If your shop needs another plugin or a developer digging through the theme for it, that says something about the shop.

Not sure if yours is compliant? Send me a message and I'll take a look.

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Laravel 13.26 quietly shipped something I've wanted for years: a read-through filesystem driver.

Moving uploads to new storage used to mean a big sync script, a maintenance window and hoping nothing got written halfway through.

Now you point a disk at both:

'assets' => [
'driver' => 'read-through',
'primary' => 'r2',
'fallback' => 'legacy-s3',
],

Reads check the new disk first. If the file isn't there yet, Laravel serves it from the old one and copies it over on the way. New writes go straight to the new disk.

One thing to keep in mind: a file nobody opens never moves. Old invoices and forgotten uploads stay on the old disk. So before you switch the old one off, still run a final sync.

Handy for client projects that grew out of local storage.

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Stop naming your Livewire components Index.php.

Open a Laravel project with a few admin screens and you'll find ten files called Index.php, Form.php and Show.php. Your editor shows five tabs that all say "Index", and searching for one gives you every screen in the app.

My rule: a component in a subfolder carries that folder in its own name. Only the direct parent, not the whole path.

App\Livewire\Admin\Projects\ProjectsIndex
resources/views/livewire/admin/projects/projects-index.blade.php
<livewire:admin.projects.projects-index />

So ProjectsIndex, not Index and not AdminProjectsIndex.

Now the tab tells you which screen you're on, and a search for ProjectsIndex gives exactly one hit. Small thing, but I stopped losing time on it.

How do you name yours?

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Sinds 15 augustus geldt de Cyberbeveiligingswet. Veel mkb-bedrijven denken dat die alleen over grote organisaties gaat.

Maar die grote organisaties moeten nu aantonen dat hun leveranciers ook digitaal veilig werken. Dus krijg je als leverancier opeens een vragenlijst van je klant. Wie heeft toegang tot welke systemen? Hoe maak je back-ups? Wat doe je als er iets misgaat?

Bij veel bedrijven weet niemand dat precies. Het zit in iemands hoofd, of in een Excel van drie jaar geleden.

Je hoeft er geen groot project van te maken. Begin met op een rij zetten welke systemen je gebruikt, wie erbij kan en wat er gebeurt als er één uitvalt. Dan heb je meteen de helft van die vragenlijst ingevuld, en meer rust.

Wil je dat samen op een rij zetten? Stuur me een bericht.

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https://t.co/0GV6Ivls08

Sinds zaterdag moet elke webshop in de EU de officiële garantielabels tonen. Een melding over de wettelijke garantie van twee jaar, en bij sommige producten ook het GARAN-label. Er is geen overgangsperiode, en je mag ze niet zelf vormgeven.

Staat het al op jouw site?

Bij veel WordPress webshops betekent zo'n nieuwe regel weer een extra plugin, of iemand die in het thema moet rommelen. Zo groeit de stapel plugins elk jaar, en daarmee de kans dat er iets breekt of lekt.

In een webshop die goed in elkaar zit, is dit gewoon een veld bij het product. Eén keer instellen en klaar.

Twijfel je of jouw webshop aan de regels voldoet? Stuur me een bericht, dan kijk ik even mee.

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https://t.co/0GV6Ivls08

Heb je een WordPress webshop die je eigenlijk liever niet opent?

Trage beheeromgeving, een stapel plugins die elkaar in de weg zitten, updates waar je nerveus van wordt en een beveiligingsmelding die je maar wegklikt. Dat hoor ik vaak.

Ik bouw zo'n webshop om naar een eenvoudig systeem:
- prettig te bedienen, ook als je geen techneut bent
- veilig, zonder tientallen plugins die bijgehouden moeten worden
- goed vindbaar in Google én in AI-assistenten zoals ChatGPT en Perplexity

En dat doe ik no cure no pay. Hoe dat precies werkt leg ik je graag uit.

Herken je dit? Stuur me een bericht, dan kijken we samen wat het oplevert.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

Livewire devs, which one cost you the most hours? 👇

Count your squares, reply with your score, and share the fix that finally worked. Your fix might save someone else's Friday.

The classic: a list without wire:key. Everything looks fine until you reorder or remove a row.

#Laravel #Livewire #PHP #TALLstack #WebDev

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@ThorCommerce It never stores the body to begin with: only recipient, subject, status and errors, optionally linked to your own model. Rows are pruned after 30 days by default; MAILTRAP_CLEANUP_AFTER_DAYS=0 keeps them. Just keep customer details out of the subject.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@ElijahBrownDev Good points, thanks. A Null MX already gets refused because it never resolves, but getmxrr() can't tell a timeout from no MX, so a DNS hiccup blocks the send until the check expires. Failing open and logging it is better; noted for the next version.

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From our portfolio: De Huurwoningbemiddelaar, a Dutch rental agency site with 200+ listings, online registration and a custom CMS built in Laravel.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@PovilasKorop I completely agree; I often catch myself doing that too.

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Is your Laravel or Livewire site drowning in contact form spam?

darvis/livewire-honeypot stops most bots without a CAPTCHA:

🍯 A hidden bait field only bots fill in, safe for password managers and autofill
⏱️ A time trap: a form sent within 5 seconds of loading is refused
🔒 A start time the client can't change
🧩 One Blade component, <x-honeypot />, for Livewire and plain Laravel forms

No cookies, no JavaScript, no third-party service. Free and MIT licensed.

composer require darvis/livewire-honeypot

Find it on Packagist as darvis/livewire-honeypot.

#Laravel #Livewire #PHP #TALLstack #WebDev #OpenSource

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@FYMarafi54 Someone had to 😄 The real wins are usually in boring places, like reading invoices.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

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Looking for an AI specialist?

Here's what I'll tell you first: you probably don't need a new AI platform. You need AI in the one spot where someone now reads, sorts or retypes the same things every day.

How I work at Darvis:

🔍 Honest advice first: where AI saves time, what it costs, and where you're better off without it
🧩 Built into the software you already use, not another chat window on the side
👤 A human stays in control, with a review step and a record of what happened
🌱 Start small: one step runs alongside your team until it has proven itself
🔐 Clear answers on what is allowed with your data
🔑 No lock-in. The advice and the code are yours, even if someone else builds it

Reading invoices, sorting incoming mail, drafting quotes, searching your own documents: that's where it pays off.

Want to know what AI could actually do for your business? Send me a DM.

#AI #AIAutomation #AIConsulting #SmallBusiness

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@BYD0811 Thanks! It saved me a lot of copy-pasting image URLs. There's a live demo if you want to try it first.

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

https://t.co/fBgIbrn2kY

Using the Flux Pro rich text editor in your Laravel app? Pull your images and files straight from Laravel Filemanager.

🖼️ Pick one or more images from your own file manager
📎 Insert links to PDFs and other files
↔️ Resize to 25, 50, 75 or 100% and align left, center or right
✏️ Double-click an image to edit alt text, title, classes and styles
📥 Drag, drop or paste images straight into the editor
🩺 php artisan flux-filemanager:check tells you what to fix

Try the live demo first: you get your own sandbox, nothing to install. When you like it:
composer require darvis/livewire-flux-editor-filemanager

Free and MIT licensed. Needs Flux Pro.

Built on the great work of @calebporzio on Livewire and Flux 🙌

#Laravel #Livewire #FluxUI #FileManager #PHP

[Arvid de Jong @JongArvid]

@mozo2say Fair, there's a lot of that around. My point is the opposite though: most companies don't need a custom AI tool, and I'll say so when that's the case.