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We just released v7.3.0 of laravel-query-builder, which adds a new way to group multiple filters under a single URL parameter. Before getting into the new feature, let me show you how the basics work, so the new bit makes sense in context.

Seth Godin shares a compact set of pricing truths about value, story, and perception. It is especially good on why the right answer to "that's too expensive" is often a better story, not a lower price.

A deep dive into Role-Based Access Control, from the theory behind roles and permissions to a practical, team-aware Laravel implementation without external packages.

A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs.

The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for . ...

This practical guide shows how to use spatie/laravel-health together with Oh Dear to detect vulnerable Composer dependencies in production and get alerted quickly. It also shows how adding composer audit in CI gives you an extra early warning layer.

AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. That's great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other.

Matthieu Napoli explains how he replaced GitHub-hosted CI with self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini at home. The setup is simple, fast, and a good look at the trade-offs around isolation, caching, and parallelism.

An absurd and very fun technical deep dive into getting Mac OS X 10.0 running natively on a Nintendo Wii. It covers the hardware investigation, boot process, kernel patching, and driver work needed to pull it off.

A clear walkthrough of how traceroute works under the hood. It explains the TTL trick, the ICMP replies routers send back, and even rebuilds the core idea in Rust.