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This post is a response/reaction to "From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software" by Patrick Organ.

It's now possible to prioritize issues in Flare!

Lessons learned from contributing to open source software projects.

Every laravel developer have this wish to contribute to laravel, but it's hard to find a start point. How to do that, where to start, how this, where that all this questions and searching on internet won't be much of a help. There are a ton of articles on how to do laravel but almost no detailed information on how to contribute to this master framework. In this article, we will try to find out answers to some of those questions.

Laravel provides tools for creating and downloading compressed files. This guide explores file compression in the Laravel ecosystem, covering native PHP solutions and third-party package integrations.

Favicon Fetcher v3.5.0 adds a new `verify_tls` config option for disabling TLS verification and making local development easier.

Let's take a look at a possible approach to register routes in your Laravel application by splitting them into multiple files.

In this video we're learning how to use Ray to debug your projects. Weither your working with Laravel, PHP, Javascript or some other programming language, Ray is there for you. Debugging your project was made easy by the guys over at Spatie. They designed and developed a debugging tool for us, called Ray. Available at https://myray.app

Leveraging the Power of Macros in Ray.

Major overhaul of the package API, performance improvements, PHP 8.2+ support, and more!

Introducing Laravel Error Share, simply share and debug local errors with your team!

In this Quickfire article, we'll learn about how to validate whether an uploaded image is square in shape.

This article showcases how you can use Eloquent models, rather than a traditional boolean column, as flags in your Laravel application.

Since working with generators can be a bit tricky if you're new to them, this post offers an intro on how to use them and highlights common pitfalls to avoid.

Laravel Reverb, introduced in Laravel 11, has changed how developers handle real-time communication in their web applications.

Five Lesser-Known But Useful Composer Commands.

Run Laravel jobs in the command-line.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we'll create everything you need in just one simple command. Instead of running multiple commands to create models, policies, controllers, custom requests, migration, and factories, we can simply chain "-a" onto our Artisan command.