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Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other real-world constraints ...

Sebastian shares a practical three-step workflow for writing feature specs, from gathering notes with tools like Granola to using a thinking model to surface contradictions and scope. He then switches back to hands-on editing to shape the final spec ...

At our latest hackathon, we built Live at Spatie, a Laravel and React wrapper around Owntone that lets the whole team queue music, see what's playing, and control the office speakers. The nicest touch is the Slack bot: thanks to an MCP server powered ...

Learn what the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) pattern is and how to apply it in Laravel with a simple, practical example.

Peter Suhm shares a simple Todoist setup that separates tasks due on a specific day from tasks that just need to happen this week. The heart of the system is a single custom filter that combines today, overdue, and @this-week items into one view.

Pest v4.5.0 adds first-class support for flaky tests with retries and a dedicated CLI filter. The release also brings a useful casing assertion for catching namespace and file path mismatches, plus a coverage option that hides uncovered files.

A deep dive into idempotency, from the theory behind safe retries to a practical Laravel implementation using the Laravel Idempotency package.

Learn how to reuse your Laravel MCP tools in the Laravel AI SDK using a simple proxy approach, helping you avoid code duplication and making it easier to build AI agents integrated into your Laravel applications.

A Claude Code skill that helps you design and generate event-sourced domain code for Laravel using spatie/laravel-event-sourcing ...

Laravel Boost only reads a single core.blade.php per package, so extra sibling files get silently dropped. Here is the minimal pattern for splitting your guidelines into organized partials using a Blade view namespace.