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.
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Martin Fowler explores why AI coding sessions degrade over time and how externalizing decisions into structured documents keeps context reliable across sessions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We just released v5 of laravel-activitylog, our package for logging user activity and model events in Laravel.
In Flare, Mailcoach, and Oh Dear we use it to build audit logs, so we can track what users are doing: who changed a setting, who deleted a project, who invited a team member. If you need something similar in your app, this package makes it easy.
This major release requires PHP 8.4+ and Laravel 12+, and brings a cleaner API, a better database schema, and customizable internals. Let me walk you through what the package can do and what's new in v5.
Nick wrote about how native browser features like the dialog element, the Popover API, and anchor positioning could eventually replace much of what we use shadcn and Radix for at Spatie today. A thoughtful look at where the web platform is heading and what it means for our frontend stack.
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Chris Mellor wrote a practical guide on setting up Zed as a Laravel IDE, covering PHP extensions, Pint formatting, Blade support, and how it compares to PHPStorm.
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A thorough walkthrough of building a RAG system in Laravel using the new AI SDK, Postgres for vector storage, and Livewire 4 for a streaming chat UI. Covers everything from what RAG is and how semantic search works to embedding documents and querying them.
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Daniel Coulbourne walks through building an MCP server with the official laravel/mcp package. He built one for his blog in about 20 minutes, then used it to write and publish the post you're reading.
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A practical look at why you should populate essential data from migrations instead of seeders. Once your app is live, manually running seeders becomes a deployment risk. Migrations are deterministic, automatic, and roll back cleanly.
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Christoph Rumpel reflects on how AI tools are changing the way developers work. The core message: take the shortcuts that cut out mechanical work, but don't outsource the parts that make your work yours.
Read more [christoph-rumpel.com]
We just released v7 of spatie/laravel-query-builder, our package that makes it easy to build flexible API endpoints. If you're building an API with Laravel, you'll almost certainly need to let consumers filter results, sort them, include relationships and select specific fields. Writing that logic by hand for every endpoint gets repetitive fast, and it's easy to accidentally expose columns or relationships you didn't intend to.
Our query builder takes care of all of that. It reads query parameters from the URL, translates them into the right Eloquent queries, and makes sure only the things you've explicitly allowed can be queried.
// GET /users?filter[name]=John&include=posts&sort=-created_at $users = QueryBuilder::for(User::class) ->allowedFilters('name') ->allowedIncludes('posts') ->allowedSorts('created_at') ->get(); // select * from users where name = 'John' order by created_at desc
This major version requires PHP 8.3+ and Laravel 12 or higher, and brings a cleaner API along with some features we've been wanting to add for a while.
Let me walk you through how the package works and what's new.
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A deep dive into "Clinejection", where an attacker injected a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot interpreted as an instruction. The resulting chain led to cache poisoning, credential theft, and a compromised npm package that silently installed a second AI agent on 4,000 developer machines.
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We gave all the settings screens in Flare a fresh coat of paint. Consistent layouts, better forms, improved navigation and plenty of small details that make the experience calmer and more focused.
Read more [flareapp.io]
