All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
The Laravel community continues to expand globally, and now it’s reaching the South Caucasus. On May 14th, the first official Laravel meetup in Tbilisi, Georgia will take place, hosted by RedBerry
Laravel 13.7.0 adds the Interruptible interface for jobs to respond to worker signals, plus the @fonts Blade directive for Vite font optimization, bulk JSON path assertions in TestResponse, SortDirection enum support, and more.
One of the biggest questions developers ask before migrating to Laravel Cloud is a simple one: will my app just work? Until recently, the only way to answer it was to read the docs, audit your dependencies by hand, or reach out to support.
Polyscope is now available for Windows, bringing the same app and architecture as the macOS version to Windows users.
Laravel Idempotency is a package by Wendell Adriel that adds HTTP idempotency to Laravel routes, replaying cached responses for duplicate requests and protecting against in-flight collisions.
Laravel Sluggable is an opinionated take on automatic slug generation for Eloquent models
Your agent looks up orders and remembers conversations but invents policies when customers ask about returns or shipping. In this episode we build a searchable knowledge base with embeddings and pgvector so the answers come from real documentation.
Spatie's Laravel Mobile Pass package lets you generate and push live updates to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes directly from your Laravel app.
The free online PHP conference is back with talks from Jeffrey Way, Fabien Potencier, Nils Adermann, and more.
LLPhant is a PHP framework for building Generative AI applications with support for multiple LLM providers, embeddings, vector stores, and RAG capabilities.