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Aaron Francis shares how he used Claude to create an entire launch video for his new app, without using any traditional motion graphics software. No Remotion, no MCPs -- just clever prompting and iteration.

We just released laravel-screenshot, a new package to take screenshots of web pages in Laravel apps. It uses a driver-based architecture, so you can choose between Browsershot (which requires you to install Chromium) and Cloudflare Browser Rendering ...

Laravel's built-in authorization is great when permissions are defined in code. With gates and policies, you can write logic like this: // Defined in code, requires a deploy to change Gate::define('edit-posts', function (User $user) { return $user- . ...

Laravel Fuse is a circuit breaker package for Laravel queue jobs. When an external service like Stripe or Mailgun goes down, instead of letting thousands of jobs timeout (30s each), the circuit opens after a configurable failure threshold and jobs .. ...

Amit Merchant walks through practical use cases for the Laravel AI SDK: mining user data with Eloquent models as context, building a code review bot that comments on PRs, and creating adaptive quiz systems for EdTech apps. Nice examples of agents, .. ...

A fascinating deep dive into the very first commit of Laravel, made by Taylor Otwell on June 9, 2011. The article explores the original directory structure, the early Eloquent ORM, the session system with its clever flash data prefixing, and the ...

A while ago, we released laravel-pdf, a package to generate PDFs in Laravel apps. Under the hood, it used Browsershot (and therefore Puppeteer/Chrome) to convert HTML to PDF. That approach works great, but it does require Node.js and a headless ...

Martin Fowler on the overuse of bold in technical writing -- and how LLMs have picked up and spread this practice. The more you emphasize, the less power it has.

Ray 3.0 is here! Completely rebuilt for better performance (60% less memory), a fresh new look, message archiving, and MCP support so AI agents can interact with Ray directly.

Christoph reflects on how personal AI assistants have changed his daily workflow -- from calendar updates to searching the web less. An interesting take on where this technology is heading.