Toon Van den Bos

Toon Van den Bos

@toonvandenbos.com

Founder of @whitecube.be, web developper, teacher & professional Laravel enthusiast.

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πŸŽ‰ GIVEAWAY πŸŽ‰ Win your pro website! A website built with Kabas, our professional website toolkit. Got a project? Now’s the time. Know someone who does? Tag them! To enter : 1️⃣ Follow 2️⃣ Like 3️⃣ Tag a friend 4️⃣ RT Ends 23/12 Results 24/12 #Giveaway #WebDesign #Whitecube

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When your Laravel project starts looking like spaghetti 🍝 Meet Hiker, the toolkit that makes your code clean, scalable & beautiful. Built by Whitecube, available now in early access. πŸ”— hiker.dev | πŸ’» demo.hiker.dev #Laravel #HikerDev #WhitecubeΒ #WebDev

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Last week we shared the Hiker demo. This week, we focus on the website. Clean, simple, full of docs & guides for you to go through. Go take a look πŸ‘‰ hiker.dev #HikerDev #Laravel #WebDev #Whitecube

We've seen an increase in spam bots working their way around regular honeypot form protections lately, mostly sending random gibberish (what's the point?). What do you use for effective antispam protection on #laravel forms?

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Turning spreadsheets into something people actually want to explore? Say less, we got you covered. With citytransit.uitp.org we found ways to make global public transport data fun to discover. Data made visual, design made useful. #DataViz #Mobility #WebDesign #Whitecube #UITP

Laravel 12.x pro tip. Instead of registering all routes in the same file, you can just pass an array of web-related routes to application's "withRouting" bootstrapping method. Also works for API routes πŸ˜€

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They say the more the merrier, so Toon’s got two new associates; Julien, Operations Director. He does backflips so that projects run smoothly and on time. Adrien, Technical Director. He whacks his hands on the keyboard until everything works. Can't go wrong with these three πŸ₯Ή

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Phew, we did it. Say hello to our brand new website ! πŸ–₯️ Honest, refined and more Whitecube than ever. It highlights what we do best and the people behind every project we build with you. β†’ whitecube.be Let us know what you think ! #Whitecube #WebDevelopment #WebsiteDesign

Hot damn! This one's been in the making for a while, I'll be happy to see it live in a few days πŸ‘€

Whitecube.@whitecube.be

We’re launching a new website. It’s got exploding monkeys. Yup. But it’ll make sense, promise. Going live in less than a week. Stay tuned! πŸ’₯πŸ’ #Whitecube #WebDev #ComingSoon #WebsiteDesign

One thing I don't get about the mandatory switch to PEPPOL: there's no free basic access. I’m fine with paying for added value (easy setup, etc.), but if it's required by law, there should be a zero-cost path. I should be able to run my own access point with just time and effort.

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Huge thanks to everyone for showing up, we're really happy with how it went! 🧠 Congratulations to all the quiz winners Special thanks to NativePHP for sponsoring our first event! Next event is on June 19th, hope to see you there! πŸ‘‰ RSVP here: eventy.io/events/5pgy8...

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Want to learn about Hiker? That's the time, that's the place! RSVP: www.meetup.com/php-antwerp/...

meetup.comMarch meetup @ Spatie, Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM | MeetupDear Members For our meetup in March, we're excited to welcome you at **Spatie**. Be sure to RSVP, as we have 40 seats available! πŸ“£ Our fantastic speakers for this month
void πŸŒ–@leloup.dev

I'm a speaker at the next #PHPAntwerp event on March 27th, next week! At the @spatie.be headquarters, no less 😱 I'll be talking about a design pattern that's been really great for building large-scale Laravel apps (using @hiker.dev). Can't wait πŸ€“

Is there an easy way to store blade components in a modular directory structure? For instance, for a monolith with a website and an app, I'd like to store components under "website/components" instead of "components/website". This does not seem to be possible out of the box? #laravel

It's that time of the year again, days before a new Laravel release, and you're wondering "should I wait a bit before I start hacking on that new side-project"? Well, since Laravel 12 is supposed to be the simplest upgrade ever, I guess we'll just go ahead... and ship? 😁

Glad to see some repositories emerging, inspired by @hiker.dev πŸ™‚ πŸ’‘ Remember, there are 2 distinctive parts to Hiker: the flows pattern (as a standalone package called "Trail") and a modern UI automatically reacting in real time to these flows. Keen to check it out? Request an access token! πŸ™

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It's been amazing to see people's reactions to @hiker.dev so far, and we've barely scratched the surface. There's a lot more to it than the simple demo app we've shared. If you'd like your own early-access holographic license, get in touch! We'd love to hear your feedback.

Probably the hardest thing in the whole @hiker.dev process: talking to a camera. Thanks @aaronfrancis.com for screencasting.com, we still have lots to improve but your course made us take the leap!

screencasting.comscreencasting.com by Aaron Francisscreencasting.com educates developers and aspiring teachers to create high-quality screencasts faster than ever. Plan, record, and edit screencasts that truly shine.
void πŸŒ–@leloup.dev

That was not easy but we did it! Recorded an intro video for @hiker.dev's homepage. Much to improve but it's a start. Just in time for #LaraconEU πŸ₯³

We've got 250 shiny and unique early-access tokens for #laraconEU and I won't leave Amsterdam until you have one of them.

Hiker@hiker.dev

Want to be part of a new chapter in #laravel development? Come get your unique early-access token at #laraconEU, there's only 250 of them! πŸ‘‰ hiker.dev πŸ‘€

See you at Laracon EU, beautiful people. Come talk to us, @hiker.dev could upgrade your dev experience for ever ⚑

void πŸŒ–@leloup.dev

The @hiker.dev holo early-access cards just arrived! I redacted the QR code for obvious reasons, but if you see me or @toonvandenbos.com at #LaraconEU, come say hi, you'll get one of these for yourself and get exclusive early-access to Hiker. Presentation website coming later this week!

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Had a lot of fun working on a holographic shader for our upcoming @hiker.dev early access licenses. Come find @toonvandenbos.com or myself at Laracon EU and you'll get one of these cards, they contain a unique key to be one of the first people to use Hiker!

On today's menu: refactor one of the base parts of @hiker.dev, our upcoming Laravel package. Quite proud of these 5-year-old lines of code as they proved our idea was feasible, performing and promising. Now, let's take them to the next level πŸ’ͺ

Have you ever dived into custom composer repositories? That's what we did for @hiker.dev and the least we can say is that it was an interesting experience! There's something special to creating a Laravel app that's able to respond to composer commands.

This one is huge. @leloup.dev and myself have been very busy for the past few years polishing what could become your next favourite Laravel extension. Follow for more insights soon! πŸ‘€

Hiker@hiker.dev

Hiker is the culmination of 5 years of working on the best possible way to build Laravel applications for our clients. And after using open-source software for nearly ten years to build our careers, it's time to give back. Stay tuned for more information coming soon.

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