Added “unread counts” to my RSS reader’s Microsub implementation. Fun fact: the reader itself—the new one—doesn’t display them. But Microsub clients will.
Some (not very) creative use of Laravel’s `hasManyThrough`, `withCount`, and `$casts` array is all it took!
Had to copy a bunch of files off an FTP server and parse the XML hidden deep inside 'em. 😓 So I cooked up a couple Artisan commands (which I'll be able to run as scheduled jobs in the future) and that's that. 😄 #laravel
Bookmarked https://aaronfrancis.com/2020/laravel-pseudo-daemons.
A Laravel pseudo-daemon “will instruct Laravel to try to run [a] command every minute, to place it in the background, and to not start another one until the first one is finished.”
> Laravel handles that whole part for us, out of the box, for free.
