PHP version stats (June 2025 edition)
Link – – stitcher.io
Brent is back with another update on the usage of PHP versions.
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Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases
Original – – ohdear.app
In this post, I'll share how I'm using PHPStan's type aliases feature to make validation rule typehints more readable and maintainable in our Laravel application.
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Choosing where to spend my team’s effort
Link – – frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.
Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.
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How to use Enum Cases in Laravel | How to | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
Link – – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at the cases function on Enums.
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How to Build an Agent
Link – – ampcode.com
A good overview on how to build an AI agent. Explained without hype and good code examples.
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Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
Link – – masteringlaravel.io
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
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How to use one-time passwords in Laravel
Link – – www.youtube.com
A nice video from Povilas on our newest pacakage
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React, visualized
Link – – react.gg
A visual exploration of core React concepts
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What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Link – – tempestphp.com
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
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Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
Link – – benmckay.com
A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
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PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs
Link – – liamhammett.com
With PHP 8.4’s release, we have a new Dom\HTMLDocument class that makes working with HTML documents easier and more standards-compliant, while fixing some long-standing bugs in the old DOMDocument class.
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15 Lesser known Spatie Laravel Packages and Projects
Link – – www.youtube.com
Povilas from Laravel Daily made a cool video about our packages.
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A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps
Original – – spatie.be
Our new package gives you everything you need to build a secure one-time password auth flow.
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It's never just that simple
Link – – www.neverjust.net
When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity.
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Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Link – – spatie.be
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Link – – tideways.com
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
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Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
Link – – blog.genijaho.dev - submitted by Geni Jaho
Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.
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Impostor Syndrome – Maybe I’m Not Good Enough?
Link – – www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
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Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types
Link – – piccalil.li
Utility types are types that modify other types. You can think of them as functions, but they operate on types instead of values.
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Five levels of handling images in Laravel
Link – – spatie.be
We'll cover resizing, image optimization, and UI enhancements and show how Spatie's packages and products can make the whole process easier, more efficient, and even a bit fun.
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