The Story of Valkey
– devdojo.com – Edit
Valkey is an interesting fork of Redis.
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An engineer's perspective on hiring
The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
Read more [jyn.dev]
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Compile time generics: yay or nay?
One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both.
Read more [thephp.foundation]
6 Weeks of Claude Code
– blog.puzzmo.com – Edit
Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate.
Read more [blog.puzzmo.com]
On full-breadth developers
– justin.searls.co – Edit
It looks like full-breadth developers—people with both technical and product capabilities—stand to gain as clear winners in the AI era.
Read more [justin.searls.co]
If you're remote, ramble
– stephango.com – Edit
A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.
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scout:queue-import: Faster Indexing in Laravel Scout
– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen – Edit
The new scout:queue-import command splits your model’s ID range into chunks and queues jobs for each, enabling faster indexing of large datasets.
Read more [nabilhassen.com]
Enabling WAL mode with SQLite in Laravel
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler – Edit
SQLite's WAL mode makes using SQLite database much more production-ready.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Using SQLite in production with Laravel
– stancl.substack.com - submitted by Samuel Štancl – Edit
Some things to consider when using SQLite in production from the point of view of Laravel apps
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The pipe operator in PHP 8.5
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Looking forward to using this myself too.
A year with property hooks
– stitcher.io – Edit
Some interesting thoughts on property hooks by Brent
Read more [stitcher.io]
A tiny taxonomy of meetings
– adactio.com – Edit
Ideally every meeting should be categorised in advance so that everyone’s going in with the same expectations.
Read more [adactio.com]
TODOs aren’t for doing
– sophiebits.com – Edit
Some teams require that every TODO comment in a codebase gets logged in the bug tracker. Others automatically delete any “stale” TODO that has been in the codebase for over a year. Don’t do it!
Read more [sophiebits.com]
Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components
– devdojo.com – Edit
At Laracon US Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies
Read more [devdojo.com]
Why I don't use down migrations original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
Every once in a while, someone opens a PR on one of our open source packages adding a down function to the migration. I usually close those PRs fast with a thank you and a message “We don’t use down migrations in our projects”.
While down migrations might seem like a safety net, they're often a false comfort that potentially creates more problems than they solve.
Instead of explaining this in every PR separately, let me share why we don't write down migrations and what we do instead.
The Real Ask
– frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant – Edit
When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually not be the best way to achieve the goal they are set out to do.
Read more [frederickvanbrabant.com]
SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick – Edit
Learn how to use SQL generated columns and database views in Laravel to simplify queries, boost performance, and make your data easier to filter, sort, and reuse across your application.
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Laravel Headless API + React Frontend: Full Stack Tour de France Tutorial
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef – Edit
🚴♂️ Build a Full Stack App with Laravel + React! In this tutorial, you'll create a Laravel Headless API and connect it to a React frontend to display 2025 Tour de France etappes (stages).
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Pipe Operator |> PHP 8.5
– acairns.co.uk - submitted by Andrew Cairns – Edit
The pipe operator will improve your code readability and composition in PHP. Understand the current approach and what future will look like.
Read more [acairns.co.uk]
How to Make Your AI Agent Program PHP and Laravel with Grace and Style
We've converted our PHP and Laravel coding guidelines into AI-friendly instructions so Claude Code and other AI agents can generate code that matches our established programming style.
Read more [spatie.be]
