Exploring our new PHP SDK, built using Saloon
Link – – ohdear.app
I've recently rebuilt the SDK for Oh Dear, and thanks to Saloon I had a great time downing so.
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Transform your URLs with AI using our new Laravel package
I'm excited to share that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-url-ai-transformer. This one can get the content of a webpage and transform it into something else using AI.
In this blog post, I'd like to share why I've created it and how you can use it.
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How to update composer.lock without changing any packages
Link – – masteringlaravel.io
Joel Clermont shares a nice composer knowledge nugget.
Read more [masteringlaravel.io]
The Story of Valkey
Link – – devdojo.com
Valkey is an interesting fork of Redis.
Read more [devdojo.com]
An engineer's perspective on hiring
Link – – jyn.dev
The current hiring process for engineers is flawed, wasting time and failing to differentiate between skilled candidates and those using AI.
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Compile time generics: yay or nay?
Link – – thephp.foundation
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
Link – – blog.puzzmo.com
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
Link – – justin.searls.co
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
Link – – stephango.com
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
Link – – nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
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.
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Enabling WAL mode with SQLite in Laravel
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
SQLite's WAL mode makes using SQLite database much more production-ready.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Using SQLite in production with Laravel
Link – – stancl.substack.com - submitted by Samuel Štancl
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
Looking forward to using this myself too.
A year with property hooks
Link – – stitcher.io
Some interesting thoughts on property hooks by Brent
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A tiny taxonomy of meetings
Link – – adactio.com
Ideally every meeting should be categorised in advance so that everyone’s going in with the same expectations.
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TODOs aren’t for doing
Link – – sophiebits.com
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!
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Livewire 4: The Future of PHP Components
Link – – devdojo.com
At Laracon US Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies
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Why I don't use down migrations
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
Link – – frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant
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.
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SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App
Link – – tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
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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