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.
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Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?
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You're three months into a new job when someone mentions "we have a dozen different branches for our customers." Learn how to escape the custom code nightmare with four proven patterns that actually scale, plus real Laravel examples.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This article continues the series on integrating Trix with Laravel by focusing on user mentions using the Rich Text Laravel package. It walks through adding a Tribute.js-powered mention picker in the editor, implementing back-end support via an AttachableContract and Signed Global IDs, and even scaffolds a notification system to email mentioned users.
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A critical security vulnerability was just disclosed for Livewire v3, as Stephen Rees-Carter wrote about on Securing Laravel. The vulnerability (CVE-2025-54068) allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution in specific scenarios. What makes this particularly concerning is that exploitation doesn't require authentication or user interaction - just a component mounted and configured in a particular way.
This vulnerability affects all Livewire v3 versions up to 3.6.3. If you're running any version in that range, attackers could potentially run arbitrary PHP code on your server. Stephan warns us the open-source nature of the fix means attackers may already be reverse-engineering the patch to identify and abuse the exploit.
Many production apps are probably running vulnerable versions right now, with their developers completely unaware. This is where automated security monitoring becomes invaluable - using Laravel Health to check for vulnerabilities, and optionally services like Oh Dear to send you notifications when issues are detected.
Some interesting thoughts about caching.
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The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean?
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PHP doesn’t let you serialize closures, but Laravel does, thanks to an underrated package that’s built into the framework.
– geisi.dev - submitted by Tim Geisendörfer
Learn how to deploy your Inertia Vue SSR worker to the Cloudflare Workers platform without breaking a sweat.
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We just tagged stable release for two new spatie packages: spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client. In this blogpost, I'd like to share why these were developed and how you can use them.
Even though I use Claude Code, I haven't used local models. It seems very convenient to be able to use Claude Code without an internet connection.
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The #[\NoDiscard] is a safety feature for PHP developers, making it easier to catch mistakes where ignoring a function’s return value could lead to bugs.
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A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
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Continuous AI in software engineering involves integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows, such as automated PR reviews, issue labeling, and daily summaries.
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say: complexity very, very bad
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Git notes are a powerful feature for adding metadata to commits, blobs, and trees.
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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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– 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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Brent is back with another update on the usage of PHP versions.
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