A clear walkthrough of how PHP closures implicitly capture $this, even when they don't use it, and how that can prevent objects from being garbage collected. Also covers what PHP 8.6 will change with automatic static inference.
Read more [f2r.github.io]
Over the past few months we've been building There There at Spatie, a support tool shaped by the two decades we've spent running our own customer support. The goal is simple: the helpdesk we always wished we had.
We care about using AI in a particular way. It should help support agents write better replies, not substitute for them. The human stays in charge of the conversation, and the model does the unglamorous work of drafting, rephrasing, and suggesting links. There There is in private beta right now, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app.
We're building There There with Laravel and Inertia, and we lean heavily on the latest features Inertia v3 brings. This post is about another one: prefetching on hover.
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A few months ago we started building There There, a helpdesk we're making at Spatie. The premise is simple. After two decades of running customer support for our open source work and our SaaS apps, we wanted the tool we always wished existed.
One thing we care about in particular is using AI to help humans craft better responses, not to replace them. The agent stays in charge of the conversation. The model just helps them reply faster and a little sharper. There There is in private beta right now, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app.
We're building There There with Laravel and Inertia, and we lean heavily on the latest features Inertia v3 brings. In this post I'd like to give one example: optimistic updates.
A lovely analogy about software craft. Same ingredients, same features, but the invisible process behind the decisions is what separates "this works" from "this feels right."
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Ryan Chandler shares his honest journey from unease to acceptance with AI coding tools. A thoughtful reflection on how your value as a software engineer is not in writing every line, but knowing which lines should exist at all.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
A good reminder that trust matters more than ever when every week brings another AI-made product. The post argues that real faces, founder stories, and a visible reputation help both people and LLMs trust what you build.
Read more [marketingfordevelopers.com]
A thorough explainer on how quantization makes LLMs 4x smaller and 2x faster while losing only 5-10% accuracy. Covers floating point precision, compression techniques, and how to measure quality loss, with interactive examples throughout.
Read more [ngrok.com]
Steve Schoger shows how he uses Claude Code to design and build UIs, turning natural language prompts into polished interfaces.
– wendelladriel.com - submitted by Wendell Adriel
My thoughts on why Agentic Engineering is a better path than Vibe Coding, and the workflow I use to turn AI agents into a structured engineering process.
Read more [wendelladriel.com]
SlideWire is a Laravel package for building browser-based presentation decks using Livewire components and Blade templates. It comes with built-in navigation, transitions, syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
A deep dive into how Blaze works internally. Matt Stauffer builds two toy versions from scratch to show how Blaze shifts Blade component rendering from runtime to compile time.
Read more [tighten.com]
Martin Fowler explores why AI coding sessions degrade over time and how externalizing decisions into structured documents keeps context reliable across sessions.
Read more [martinfowler.com]
The Laravel blog walks through how to implement the five multi-agent patterns from Anthropic's "Building Effective Agents" research using the Laravel AI SDK. Prompt chaining, parallelization, routing, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer loops, all built with just the agent() helper.
Read more [laravel.com]
Vercel shares their internal framework for shipping agent-generated code safely. The core argument: green CI is no longer proof of safety, because agents produce code that looks flawless while remaining blind to production realities. The post outlines how to build systems where agents can act with high autonomy because deployment is safe by default.
Read more [vercel.com]
A thoughtful collection of principles for working with coding agents, inspired by the Zen of Python. Covers how cheap code changes prioritization, why refactoring and repaying tech debt got easier, and why your role shifts from typing code to framing problems.
Read more [nonstructured.com]
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This post explores what Delegated Types are, highlights their benefits, compares them to alternatives like Single-Table Inheritance (STI), and examines practical use cases they enable.
Read more [tighten.com]
We just released Scotty, a beautiful SSH task runner. It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks, run them from your terminal, and watch every step as it happens. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format. Why we built Scotty Even though services like…
Matt Rothenberg walks through how to generate dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers. A practical guide covering the full setup from rendering to caching.
Read more [mattrothenberg.com]
Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them into one.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
– liminal.aschmelyun.com - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun
A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more.
Read more [liminal.aschmelyun.com]
