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Bert De Swaef shows how PHP attributes made his Livewire components easier to read by attaching validation, URL sync, and event listeners directly to the properties and methods they belong to. Nice piece on how attributes reduce mental overhead, ...

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Mattias open sourced a small Caddy module that caches get_certificate HTTP lookups, avoiding a backend fetch on every TLS handshake. A nice write-up on the problem, the design, and the trade-offs.

A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the edge case and how they're ...

A practical take on multi-agent setups in Laravel: another agent only earns its place when it needs its own model, tools, or instructions. Good piece on delegation tradeoffs, context handoff, and how to test routing before it becomes an expensive ...

Michael Dyrynda explains a subtle Laravel gotcha: #[RouteParameter] only reads the current route parameter value, it does not perform implicit model binding. Good reminder that the controller signature still matters when you expect a bound model ...

You can't out-prompt an attacker -- to the model, your system instructions and a malicious support ticket are the same text. So stop defending the prompt and lock down the boundaries you actually control: tools scoped to the authenticated user server ...

Matthias writes that AI has shifted more of software development from typing to thinking, reviewing, and iterating. Nice reflection on how agentic coding, parallel worktrees, and voice dictation can slow individual features down while still ...

Flare now supports log collection for Laravel and PHP apps, with real-time filtering and search in the same polished interface. A nice overview of what logging adds and how to get started with the new SDK release.

Your Agent::fake() tests prove your Laravel AI feature runs -- not that its output is any good. This evals a real ticket classifier with the AI SDK: a golden dataset for the fields you can check, an LLM-as-judge for the free text you can't, and a ...