Stories of Interest

Our ancestors were more badass than we assume

Did George Stinney Jr deserve to be electrocuted for the murders?

“I think that perhaps I failed as a father,” Marlon Brando said of his son, Christan Brando.

Randy Woodfield just wanted to play football, but instead, he killed at least 44 people and committed over 100 crimes.

Fancy a night in the UK with some extra entertainment?

Most of these properties are admittedly in hard-to-reach corners of the globe and may require multipart journeys before you can drop your bags and unwind. But that’s part of the allure.

The story of the seven fiddler dwarfs from the Maramures village of Rozalvea, who survived the Auschwitz camp, continues to fascinate decades after the heinous experiments they were subjected to by the well-known Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The band “Lilip...

It was nearly impossible to bury all the corpses that fell onto the battlefield, leaving some to say that their spirits still linger over a century later.

There is a magical place called boot() in an Eloquent model where you can override default behavior

Eloquent has quite a few functions that combine two methods, like “please do X, otherwise do Y”.

Useful tip

Something I am often asked is can you have a virtual field in a model. Well yes you can. Laravel has a feature "Accessors" which is really useful.

Ah what people write - classic!

Born on the 23rd of May 1950 in Sacramento, California, Richard Chase had an abusive childhood. His parents were disciplinarians and Chase’s father often beat him and his younger sister. By ten years old, Chase was showing signs of the Macdonald triad; ar...

Two respectable academics Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain claimed to have seen Marie Antoinette in 1901, more than 100 years after her death.

You’ll be a professional bartender in no time.