Seth Chen

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SCSeth Chensethphat.devDec 16, 2025 · 2 min read

Fetch and compute first, write later

Hey guys, An update after I posted the “Laravel Excel: How to append rows to an existing Excel file“ a while back. This post will give you another solution and probably a better way to export that fits every case. Problems Previously, when trying to ...

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SCSeth Chensethphat.devDec 6, 2025 · 2 min read

Mark as default - the optimal way

Hey guys, An easy topic for today! Make something a default (e.g., category, product, campaign, etc). Let’s go with the categories table for the examples. Let’s say we only want one category to be the default one. And find out which is the optimal wa...

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SCSeth Chensethphat.devNov 30, 2025 · 3 min read

Almost 2026, but I still choose WordPress for CMS

Hey guys, Probably a chapter 2 of this https://sethphat.dev/why-is-wordpress-still-an-awesome-cms blog post, haha. Here was the story: I’ve been spending like 2 days figuring out which CMS I want to use for my new blog (for my new hobby lol) Let’s se...

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SCSeth Chensethphat.devMar 8, 2025 · 2 min read

Laravel Excel: How to append rows to an existing Excel file

Hey guys, Well damn, it has been a while since my last post lol, lazy & busy. But here I am, back to write useful tips for y’all 🥹 Let us do some exporting tasks for today, using Laravel Excel to export XLSX (yeah CSV is so 2010 lol). But, append mo...

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SCSeth Chensethphat.devSep 18, 2024 · 3 min read

Laravel Herd PRO reviews

Hey guys, Recently, I just bought Herd PRO (a yearly subscription). I’ve been using the basic Herd since the first release. So, my latest work required interaction with S3 storage, there are several ways to achieve that in the local env: Use Cloud (...

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Fetch and compute first, write later

Mark as default - the optimal way

Almost 2026, but I still choose WordPress for CMS

Laravel Excel: How to append rows to an existing Excel file

Laravel Herd PRO reviews