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PHP 8.6 will introduce partial function application, allowing you to pre-fill some arguments while leaving others for later. Brent explains this new language feature with practical examples.
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At Laracon India, I launched a major update of Ray. For that talk, I needed a little demo project to showcase Ray. I built a simple website about a then-fictional mobile app to play a Scrabble-like word game called WordStockt.
But then I got curious: how far could I push AI-assisted development? Could I actually just create the whole game? After about 10 days, WordStockt is a fully functional word game that's 98% vibe-coded. It's available for iOS and Android. In this post, I'd like to tell you more about it.
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Brent continues his optimization journey processing 11 million database events. Starting from 50k events per second, he implements combined inserts, skips unnecessary deserialization, and reaches 400k events per second. A great deep dive into PHP performance optimization.
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Link – – martinfowler.com
Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a "telephone game" of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Think of how "agile" or "DevOps" are used today versus their original intent.
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Link – – ohdear.app
The final part of Oh Dear's series on SQL performance. Mattias introduces phpunit-query-count-assertions, a package that catches N+1 queries, duplicate queries, and missing indexes in your test suite. Since implementing this at Oh Dear, they've eliminated 15% of their SELECT queries.
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If you're using AI tools like Claude Code to help write code, you've probably noticed they don't automatically know your team's coding conventions. The AI might write perfectly valid PHP, but it won't follow your specific style guide unless you tell it to. That's the problem Laravel Boost solves. It…
For years, my git history contains "wip" commit messages. I don't really often use git history myself, but my colleagues do. And when they're trying to understand a change I made six months ago, "wip" tells them absolutely nothing. Might as well not have commit messages at all.
I knew I should write better commit messages, but the friction was real. Stopping to think about how to summarize my changes felt like it broke my flow. So I kept typing "wip".
Now, I have a bash function in my dotfiles that uses Claude to generate commit messages for me.
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
We released version v1.5.0 of Parental, our package that adds support for Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Laravel. This new version allows types to become other types and use numeric type columns instead of strings. It also adds new helper methods for eager-loading.
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Link – – danielpetrica.com - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
A quick but essential fix for anyone pushing the edges of the Laravel ecosystem. The default FrankenPHP binary provided by artisan octane:install is static and locked to PHP 8.4, which causes major headaches if your application relies on PHP 8.5 features or specific system extensions.
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Link – – tnakov.dev - submitted by Trajche Nakov
Evolving from dd() to Ray for a smoother workflow. Explore how Ray can boost your debugging game without stopping your code!
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Link – – tnakov.dev
I fully agree (but I might not be totally objective here 🙂)
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Link – – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.
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Link – – gusk.ca - submitted by Gustavo Karkow
Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works
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Link – – carlbarenbrug.com
Not all friction is bad.
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Link – – youtu.be - submitted by Nuno Maduro
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Link – – wouterj.nl
This year, Symfony celebrates its 20 year anniversary. Let’s dive into some statistics of years of making web development history.
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Link – – chrisloy.dev
The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.
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Link – – tidyfirst.substack.com
Some good thoughts on code reviews in the emerging age of AI.
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Link – – joshhornby.com - submitted by Joshua Hornby
Prompts break silently. Here's how to catch regressions with PHPUnit evals before your users do.
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Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to build an AI-powered drawing guessing game. In this little app, users will draw anything they like, and the AI will try to guess what it is.
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