All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Matt Stauffer joins Eric Barnes to talk about his brand-new seat on the PHP Foundation board — what the foundation actually does, how it relates to PHP internals, and why he thinks it's the key to finally fixing PHP's reputation problem.
Laravel Activitylog v5 drops support for PHP < 8.4 and Laravel < 12, introduces a HasActivity trait, activity buffering for bulk inserts, and renames several methods for consistency.
Laravel has released the open source Cloud CLI, a Laravel Zero-powered command line tool for deploying and managing Laravel Cloud applications, environments, databases, domains, and more.
Laravel 13.3.0 adds a new #[UnitTest] attribute to skip framework booting per test method, variadic model attributes, a BatchStarted event, and memory reporting in verbose queue worker output.
PAO by Nuno Maduro detects when tests run inside AI agents and converts verbose test output to compact JSON, cutting token usage by up to 99.8%.
PhpStorm 2026.1 ships with Laravel 13 support, an expanded MCP server for third-party agents, PHP 8.5 pipe operator quick-fixes, and git worktree support.
Your support agent can talk, but it responds in prose. You can't route a ticket or track sentiment from a paragraph. In this episode we build a TicketClassifier that returns structured JSON with category, priority, sentiment, and a summary. Clean data from messy customer messages.
Malicious versions of the axios HTTP client were published to npm on March 31, 2026, deploying a cross-platform remote access trojan via a fake dependency.
PHPantom is a PHP Language Server Protocol implementation written in Rust that starts in under a second and uses 59 MB of RAM, with support for generics, PHPStan annotations, and Laravel Eloquent.
Learn how to build a RAG-powered AI chat agent using Laravel 12, the Laravel AI SDK, Voyage AI embeddings, and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to enable semantic search over Airbnb listings.