Party of One for Code Review
Link – – tidyfirst.substack.com
Some good thoughts on code reviews in the emerging age of AI.
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Eval Testing LLMs in PHPUnit
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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Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas
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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Keeping feature creep at bay
Link – – buttondown.com
The true work is in building complexity into software, then thoughtfully editing and pruning it into something that takes a minute to learn, yet offers a lifetime of mastery for those who want to accomplish complicated things.
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Partial Function Application is coming in PHP 8.6
Link – – www.amitmerchant.com
Partial Function Application in PHP 8.6 will let you write a “pre‑configured” callable by calling a function with some arguments and using placeholders for the rest.
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A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents
Link – – sankalp.bearblog.dev
A good guide to get started with Claude Code. If you haven't jumped on that train yet, this might be a good entry point for you.
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Laravel and Traefik: Dynamic Configuration for Effortless Multi-Domain Management
Link – – coz.jp - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
Streamline dynamic multi-domain routing in Laravel with Traefik by serving YAML via the HTTP provider for automated, secure, and scalable configuration management. Ideal for Laravel developers and DevOps teams who want to eliminate bulky static files and improve maintainability.
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A Production-Ready Laravel Architecture with Traefik and FrankenPHP
Link – – coz.jp - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
A practical guide to deploying a high-performance Laravel stack using Octane, FrankenPHP, and a fully automated Docker Compose workflow.
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How do arrays work?
Link – – nan-archive.vercel.app
This post dives into the technical details of the array and figure out how you might invent the array yourself.
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The $1,000 AWS mistake
Link – – www.geocod.io
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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A Slice of PIE, PHP's new extension installer
Link – – www.youtube.com
PIE's creator James Titcumb shows of PIE.
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Leveraging Promises and HTTP Pooling in Laravel
Link – – cosmastech.com
Laravel 8 first introduced HTTP request pooling, thanks to a contribution from Andrea Marco Sartori. This allows developers to write code which will execute any number of HTTP requests concurrently. Under the hood, this is made possible thanks to the async request functionality of Guzzle and cURL’s multi handler functionality.
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Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel
Link – – tighten.com
Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move!
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How to use Flexible Caching in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
Link – – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I'll have a look at how to use flexible caching in Laravel. A great way to avoid unhappy users who'll hit invalid cache.
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The effects of the Cloudflare outage on Oh Dear
Link – – ohdear.app
Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.
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Stopping Laravel SQL Injection with sole()
Link – – aaronsaray.com
While parameterized queries are the preferred method, sole() adds an extra layer of protection when using raw queries, especially when only one record should match.
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What's new in PHP 8.5
Link – – stitcher.io
PHP 8.5 includes the pipe operator, clone with, a new URI parser, and more.
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Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith
Link – – cosmastech.com
Using Laravel’s new traits, WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig, you can significantly reducing test run times.
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Bond: Modern JS in Laravel Blade
In his talk at Wire:Live talk, Filip Ganyicz explores Bond, a new approach that brings the capabilities of modern JavaScript into your Blade views.
Introducing Flare’s next big feature: performance monitoring
Link – – flareapp.io
Performance monitoring gives you a complete view of what's happening in your Laravel app. The dashboard tracks everything: HTTP routes, queued jobs, Artisan commands, and database queries.
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