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This post explains why Laravel queue workers and Horizon supervisors each keep their own compiled copy of your app in memory, and how that adds up fast on smaller servers. It also introduces queue-prefork, a package that shares opcache across forked ...

I like this idea very much. Inspired by this tweet, I added a tool to the MCP servers for Oh Dear, There There, and Mailcoach that lets agents report missing MCP or API functionality. If an agent can't complete a task because something is missing, it ...

Stan Daniels shares a practical checklist for tuning Laravel Horizon, from aligning timeouts and retry_after values to verifying deploy hooks and measuring real queue behavior before adding workers. It is a good reminder that queue performance issues ...

Ding is a toast notification library with playful spring physics, built to work with React, Svelte, or plain DOM. The site includes interactive demos for layout, sounds, themes, and different toast behaviors.

Amit Merchant argues that skills, prompts, plugins, and MCP servers are becoming dependencies of AI agents, and should be versioned and managed like application code. He also highlights APM as a way to install reproducible agent tooling, with ...

This tutorial shows how to build a PHP CLI tool that returns JSON, package it for Composer, and run it from anywhere with CPX. It also explains why CPX is a nicer alternative to globally installed Composer tools, thanks to isolated dependencies and . ...

Using Stripe data across about 181,000 subscription businesses, Mack Grenfell argues the SaaS slowdown became visible in October, when median revenue growth turned negative across most peer groups. He suggests the bigger problem is fewer new signups, ...

Felix Rieseberg argues that AI is changing what makes junior engineers valuable. He makes the case that fresh perspective, ambition, and quick prototypes can beat tenure when execution is cheap.

Nick Bevers argues that AI is pushing developers toward shallow, uncritical building, and that many teams are trusting generated code far too blindly. It's a thoughtful take on keeping a mental model of your codebase and using AI as a tool instead of ...

Composer 2.11 adds a cooldown dependency policy that withholds newly published package versions for a configurable period. The release also includes several security fixes and faster dependency resolution.