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.
Read more [spatie.be]
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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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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.
Read more [spatie.be]
– 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.
Read more [petersuhm.com]
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.
Read more [wendelladriel.com]
– www.exolnet.com - submitted by Alexandre D'Eschambeault
Learn how to reuse your Laravel MCP tools in the Laravel AI SDK using a simple proxy approach, helping you avoid code duplication and making it easier to build AI agents integrated into your Laravel applications.
Read more [www.exolnet.com]
– albertoarena.it - submitted by Alberto Arena
A Claude Code skill that helps you design and generate event-sourced domain code for Laravel using spatie/laravel-event-sourcing
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– laracraft.tech - submitted by Zacharias Creutznacher
Laravel Boost only reads a single core.blade.php per package, so extra sibling files get silently dropped. Here is the minimal pattern for splitting your guidelines into organized partials using a Blade view namespace.
Read more [laracraft.tech]
We just released v7.3.0 of laravel-query-builder, which adds a new way to group multiple filters under a single URL parameter. Before getting into the new feature, let me show you how the basics work, so the new bit makes sense in context.
Seth Godin shares a compact set of pricing truths about value, story, and perception. It is especially good on why the right answer to "that's too expensive" is often a better story, not a lower price.
Read more [seths.blog]
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A deep dive into Role-Based Access Control, from the theory behind roles and permissions to a practical, team-aware Laravel implementation without external packages.
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A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs.
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The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for any Eloquent model when you save it, derived from a title or another text field, and most of the time you don't have to think about it.
We just released v4, which adds a few things worth talking about. Let me walk you through them.
This practical guide shows how to use spatie/laravel-health together with Oh Dear to detect vulnerable Composer dependencies in production and get alerted quickly. It also shows how adding composer audit in CI gives you an extra early warning layer.
Read more [ohdear.app]
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes.
That's great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other.
Read more [rias.be]
Matthieu Napoli explains how he replaced GitHub-hosted CI with self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini at home. The setup is simple, fast, and a good look at the trade-offs around isolation, caching, and parallelism.
Read more [mnapoli.fr]
