freek.dev

A thoughtful collection of principles for working with coding agents, inspired by the Zen of Python. Covers how cheap code changes prioritization, why refactoring and repaying tech debt got easier, and why your role shifts from typing code to framing ...

This post explores what Delegated Types are, highlights their benefits, compares them to alternatives like Single-Table Inheritance (STI), and examines practical use cases they enable.

We just released Scotty, a beautiful SSH task runner. It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks, run them from your terminal, and watch every step as it happens. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format ...

Matt Rothenberg walks through how to generate dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers. A practical guide covering the full setup from rendering to caching.

Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them into one.

A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more.

We just released v5 of laravel-activitylog, our package for logging user activity and model events in Laravel. In Flare, Mailcoach, and Oh Dear we use it to build audit logs, so we can track what users are doing: who changed a setting, who deleted a ...

Nick wrote about how native browser features like the dialog element, the Popover API, and anchor positioning could eventually replace much of what we use shadcn and Radix for at Spatie today. A thoughtful look at where the web platform is heading .. ...

Chris Mellor wrote a practical guide on setting up Zed as a Laravel IDE, covering PHP extensions, Pint formatting, Blade support, and how it compares to PHPStorm.

A thorough walkthrough of building a RAG system in Laravel using the new AI SDK, Postgres for vector storage, and Livewire 4 for a streaming chat UI. Covers everything from what RAG is and how semantic search works to embedding documents and querying ...