About Mocking in Unit Tests

Recently at SCAYLE, I wrote a Laravel service that inserts data using Eloquent into a table like this: For people not familiar with Laravel/Eloquent: The HelloWorld model mirrors the database structure and the save method persists data into the database table. So far, so good. Like for any good and responsible project, I wrote unit … read more …

Passwords and Managers – My Very Own Story

Keestash

Back in 2010, when I started studying computer science, the very first thing that I have asked myself was: who is responsible for protecting my data?  This was a start of a new journey for me. On the one hand, I was learning a lot of new things, such as OOP, databases, distributed systems (today … read more …

Migrate a Keestash App from jQuery to Vue.Js

When starting Keestash back in late 2018, I was focused on the PHP backend and how things might work “out of the box”. The frontend needed just some click handlers here and there and thus, jQuery was the choice. Now, about two years later, things have changed a bit. The frontend got a boost with … read more …