Drop in comments for Filament with Commentions
Add powerful, real-time commenting to your Filament admin panels. Discover how the Commentions package delivers seamless comments, mentions, and events for Filament v3 & v4.
Writing on software design, company building, and the aerospace industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Laravel Starter Kits Now Include Toast Notifications
All four Laravel starter kits — React, Vue, Svelte, and Livewire — now ship with built-in toast notifications for user feedback after actions like profile and password updates.
Ship AI with Laravel: Stop Your AI Agent from Guessing
Your support agent talks, classifies tickets, but when a customer asks "where's my order?" it makes something up. In this episode we give the agent tools that connect it to real application data. No more guessing.
Laravel Cloud Adds Path Blocking to Prevent Bots From Waking Hibernated Apps
Laravel Cloud now supports path blocking, letting you stop bot requests to common paths and file types from waking hibernated applications.
Making Laravel MongoDB Operations Idempotent: Safe Retries for Financial Transactions
Learn how to implement idempotency in your Laravel MongoDB application to make checkout operations safe to retry, preventing duplicate charges and ensuring reliability even when network failures create uncertainty.
Pretty PHP Info: A Modern Replacement for `phpinfo()`
Parse, query, and display your PHP configuration with a clean API and a modern, searchable interface. Drop-in replacement for the default phpinfo() page.
FormRequest Strict Mode and Queue Job Inspection in Laravel 13.4.0
Laravel 13.4.0 adds a strict mode for FormRequest that rejects undeclared input fields, queue methods to inspect pending, delayed, and reserved jobs, and full #[Delay] attribute support across all dispatchers.
Laracon US 2026 Announced
Laracon US 2026 is heading to Boston, Massachusetts on July 28–29, 2026. Tickets are now available with speakers including Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, and Nuno Maduro.
ArtisanFlow: A Flowchart Engine for Laravel and Alpine.js
ArtisanFlow The flowchart engine Alpine.js never had. An open source, Node-based UIs built with directives you already know. Animation engine included.
Laravel QuickBooks MCP Server: Connect QuickBooks Online to AI Clients
A Laravel package that exposes QuickBooks Online as a Model Context Protocol server, giving AI clients full CRUD access to 11 QBO entities through 50 callable tools.