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Steve King explains why Tempest feels so nice for API work: typed request objects, declarative validation, route discovery, and a low-ceremony action flow. It is a good look at how the framework removes boilerplate without giving up clarity.

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Daniel Petrica tells the story of how an unpatched Livewire vulnerability on a forgotten side project exposed Mailcoach API keys and led to 50,000 spam emails being sent. It is a useful reminder to keep dormant apps updated, and a good real-world example of how Docker can limit the blast radius when something goes wrong.

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Michael Dyrynda shows how PHP 8.4 property hooks can replace simple computed getter methods with virtual properties. He makes the case for using them when you want a clean, property-based API for derived values.

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Michael Dyrynda shows how Laravel's distinct validation rule can protect nested request payloads from duplicate reference values before they corrupt relationship mapping. He also highlights the strict and ignore_case options for cases where loose comparison is not enough.

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Every shares how its team uses AI agents in a compounding loop of planning, working, assessing, and feeding lessons back into the system. The big idea: each feature should make the next one easier to build because the agents keep learning the codebase.

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An inside look at the stack powering There There: Laravel, Inertia, React, TypeScript, Horizon, Reverb, and a bunch of Spatie packages and services. A nice overview of the pragmatic tooling choices behind the product.

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Yoeri shows how to automatically open a pull request when a new PHP security advisory appears. Nice little workflow that combines Laravel Health, Oh Dear, and GitHub Actions to keep apps patched quickly.

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A fun look at making coding assistants talk less, and what that actually saves in practice. The main takeaway is that shorter replies help, but most token cost still comes from the actual work: reading, reasoning, coding, and checking.

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Composer and Packagist share a solid overview of the supply chain security work already in place, what is shipping now, and what is coming next. Worth reading if you maintain PHP packages or care about how the ecosystem is hardening against package compromise.

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A thoughtful review of AI-generated frontend code in a real product: strong in isolated spots, but increasingly inconsistent at the system level. It also makes the case for using AI as a candidate generator and validator, not as the reviewer with the final opinion.

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A good piece on using AI to understand a large existing codebase instead of generating more code. It shares practical onboarding tactics and prompts that help map domains, dependencies, and architecture faster.

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An interesting take on how AI changes the build-versus-buy decision for packages. Shared problems can often be generated, while hard, external, or opinionated problems still benefit from well-maintained packages.

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Josh Comeau shares a thoughtful take on AI, arguing that deep technical skill becomes more valuable, not less, as these tools improve. His point is that strong developers can use AI to amplify their work, while less experienced builders still struggle without solid architectural judgment.

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Keith Rabois shares a sharp, opinionated take on how AI is reshaping startups, careers, and product teams. The episode is especially interesting for its thoughts on hiring, the future of product management, and building with more speed and intensity.

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Anthony Hobday shares a thoughtful framework for thinking about software quality, from reliability and speed to clarity, efficiency, and beauty. I liked his argument that quality depends on both individual care and organisational appetite.

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Jakub shares a collection of small interface details that compound into a much better user experience, from text wrapping and concentric radius math to interruptible animations and optical alignment. It is packed with practical UI polish ideas that are easy to miss, but hard to unsee once you notice them.

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In this post, Dries shows how they use Claude Skills to automate repetitive work in client projects, like generating Saloon requests, DTOs, and Livewire pages. It is a practical look at where these workflows save a lot of time, and where careful review still matters.

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Nick and Dries share how they built Kaartje, a digital postcard wall with a spinning 3D globe that places postcards near the sender's city. It's a fun behind-the-scenes look at the stack, the role AI played during the hackathon, and the performance work needed to render hundreds of postcards smoothly.

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The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job behavior.

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Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other real-world constraints still break the illusion of full automation.

Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]