From dd() to Ray: A Debugging Workflow That Doesn't Break Your Flow
– tnakov.dev – Edit
I fully agree (but I might not be totally objective here 🙂)
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Livewire 4 Deep Dive: Components, Performance & New Directives
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef – Edit
Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.
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Behind the Terminal
– gusk.ca - submitted by Gustavo Karkow – Edit
Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works
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What gets lost when everything is effortless?
Not all friction is bad.
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The Truth Behind Tech AI Layoffs
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Symfony 20 year!
– wouterj.nl – Edit
This year, Symfony celebrates its 20 year anniversary. Let’s dive into some statistics of years of making web development history.
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The rise of industrial software
– chrisloy.dev – Edit
The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.
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Party of One for Code Review
Some good thoughts on code reviews in the emerging age of AI.
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Eval Testing LLMs in PHPUnit
– joshhornby.com - submitted by Joshua Hornby – Edit
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
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick – Edit
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
– buttondown.com – Edit
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
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
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
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
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?
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
– www.geocod.io – Edit
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
– www.youtube.com – Edit
PIE's creator James Titcumb shows of PIE.
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Leveraging Promises and HTTP Pooling in Laravel
– cosmastech.com – Edit
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
– tighten.com – Edit
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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