Git Notes: Git's Coolest, Most Unloved Feature
Git notes are a powerful feature for adding metadata to commits, blobs, and trees.
Read more [tylercipriani.com]
Exploring Coroutines in PHP
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers.
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Recreating Laravel Cloud’s range input with native HTML
– phare.io - submitted by Nicolas Beauvais
Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.
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PHP version stats (June 2025 edition)
Brent is back with another update on the usage of PHP versions.
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Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases original
In this post, I'll share how I'm using PHPStan's type aliases feature to make validation rule typehints more readable and maintainable in our Laravel application.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Choosing where to spend my team’s effort
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.
Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.
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How to use Enum Cases in Laravel | How to | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at the cases function on Enums.
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How to Build an Agent
A good overview on how to build an AI agent. Explained without hype and good code examples.
Read more [ampcode.com]
Improve user experience while keeping an eye on performance
A nice touch by Joel Clermont
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How to use one-time passwords in Laravel
A nice video from Povilas on our newest pacakage
Read more [www.youtube.com]
React, visualized
– react.gg
A visual exploration of core React concepts
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What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
Read more [tempestphp.com]
Your System Isn’t Slow – Your Bottleneck is not Optimized
A bottleneck isn’t inherently bad, we all have them. What matters is making sure your biggest bottleneck is always working at it’s most optimal conditions. That’s where your optimizations should be focused.
Read more [benmckay.com]
PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs
With PHP 8.4’s release, we have a new Dom\HTMLDocument class that makes working with HTML documents easier and more standards-compliant, while fixing some long-standing bugs in the old DOMDocument class.
Read more [liamhammett.com]
15 Lesser known Spatie Laravel Packages and Projects
Povilas from Laravel Daily made a cool video about our packages.
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A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps original
Our new package gives you everything you need to build a secure one-time password auth flow.
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It's never just that simple
When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity.
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Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
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Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
– blog.genijaho.dev - submitted by Geni Jaho
Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.
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