Designing with Claude Code
Steve Schoger shows how he uses Claude Code to design and build UIs, turning natural language prompts into polished interfaces.
My Take on Vibe Coding VS Agentic Engineering
– wendelladriel.com - submitted by Wendell Adriel
My thoughts on why Agentic Engineering is a better path than Vibe Coding, and the workflow I use to turn AI agents into a structured engineering process.
Read more [wendelladriel.com]
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SlideWire: Build Presentations with Livewire and Blade
SlideWire is a Laravel package for building browser-based presentation decks using Livewire components and Blade templates. It comes with built-in navigation, transitions, syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Under the Hood: How Blaze Speeds Up Blade Templates
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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Context Anchoring
Martin Fowler explores why AI coding sessions degrade over time and how externalizing decisions into structured documents keeps context reliable across sessions.
Read more [martinfowler.com]
Building Multi-Agent Workflows with the Laravel AI SDK
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.
Read more [laravel.com]
Agent responsibly
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.
Read more [vercel.com]
Zen of AI Coding
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.
Read more [nonstructured.com]
Introduction to Delegated Types
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
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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Scotty: a beautiful SSH task runner original
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…
Generating OG images at the edge on Cloudflare
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.
Read more [mattrothenberg.com]
Speed up your Livewire tests
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 - A full Laravel playground in your browser
– 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.
Read more [liminal.aschmelyun.com]
What's new in laravel-activitylog v5 original
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.
Rethinking our frontend future at Spatie
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.
Read more [spatie.be]
Moving from PHPStorm to Zed for Laravel development
– x.com
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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Chat with your documents: a practical guide to RAG using the Laravel AI SDK
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.
Read more [tighten.com]
Build an MCP server with Laravel
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.
Read more [thunk.dev]
Run seeders from migrations
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.
Read more [spatie.be]
The Agentic Artisan
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]
