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In this Tideways video, Brent's blog post on writing faster PHP is put to the test with real profiling data.

Joel Clermont shares a simple trick to determine if a test is covering your application logic or just testing Laravel itself. If you can comment out a chunk of your code and the test still passes, it's probably not worth keeping.

We just released v10 of laravel-backup, our package that creates backups of your Laravel app. The backup is a zip file containing all files in the directories you specify, along with a dump of your database. You can store it on any of the filesystems ...

A simple scoring system for deciding what to build next. Score each idea on Strategic Heft, Income potential, and Perspiration (effort), then rank them to find your highest-ROI opportunities.

We just released v8 of Laravel Sitemap. This package that can generate sitemaps by crawling your entire site or by manually adding URLs. This version upgrades the underlying crawler to v9, adds a couple of nice new features, and cleans up the ...

Our spatie/crawler. package is one of the first one I created. It allows you to crawl a website with PHP. It is used extensively in Oh Dear and our laravel-sitemap package. Throughout the years, the API had accumulated some rough edges. With v9, we . ...

I've been using Claude Code as my daily driver for coding tasks. Over time, I've built up a pretty specific configuration that makes the whole experience better. I keep everything in my dotfiles repo under config/claude/, so it's easy to sync across ...

When you share a link on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, the platform shows a preview image. Getting those Open Graph images right usually means either using an external service or setting up a separate rendering pipeline. We just released laravel-og ...

We recently released the Flare CLI, a command-line tool to manage your errors and performance data. It also ships with an agent skill that lets AI coding agents use Flare on your behalf. The CLI has dozens of commands and hundreds of options, yet we ...

The Flare CLI lets you manage errors and performance monitoring from the terminal. It was built with almost no hand-written code, generated from our OpenAPI spec. Having a CLI is useful on its own, but where it gets really interesting is when you let ...