The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job behavior.
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Flood Fill vs the Magic Circle
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 Read more…