– yoeri.me
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.
Read more [www.joshwcomeau.com]
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.kr
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]
Sebastian shares a practical three-step workflow for writing feature specs, from gathering notes with tools like Granola to using a thinking model to surface contradictions and scope. He then switches back to hands-on editing to shape the final spec and uses Spiral for a final pass without letting AI take over the writing.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
At our latest hackathon, we built Live at Spatie, a Laravel and React wrapper around Owntone that lets the whole team queue music, see what's playing, and control the office speakers. The nicest touch is the Slack bot: thanks to an MCP server powered by laravel/mcp and OpenClaw, you can ask it to queue music right from Slack.
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– wendelladriel.com - submitted by Wendell Adriel
Learn what the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) pattern is and how to apply it in Laravel with a simple, practical example.
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Peter Suhm shares a simple Todoist setup that separates tasks due on a specific day from tasks that just need to happen this week. The heart of the system is a single custom filter that combines today, overdue, and @this-week items into one view.
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Pest v4.5.0 adds first-class support for flaky tests with retries and a dedicated CLI filter. The release also brings a useful casing assertion for catching namespace and file path mismatches, plus a coverage option that hides uncovered files.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
– wendelladriel.com - submitted by Wendell Adriel
A deep dive into idempotency, from the theory behind safe retries to a practical Laravel implementation using the Laravel Idempotency package.
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