Category: Coding

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Our laravel-responsecache package speeds up your app by caching entire responses on the server. When the same page is requested again, the cached response is served without hitting your controller at all.

We just released v8, a new major version with a powerful new feature: flexible caching. It uses a stale-while-revalidate strategy, so that every visitor gets a fast response, even when the cache is being refreshed.

Let me walk you through it.

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Dan Hollick created a beautifully illustrated reference manual that explains how the technology behind software actually works. Read more

Pete Koomen argues that most AI apps are “horseless carriages,” bolting AI onto old paradigms instead of letting users shape the prompts that drive them. He makes the case that the best AI apps should Read more…

Aaron Francis shares how he used Claude to create an entire launch video for his new app, without using any traditional motion graphics software. No Remotion, no MCPs — just clever prompting and iteration. Read Read more…

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We just released laravel-screenshot, a new package to take screenshots of web pages in Laravel apps.

It uses a driver-based architecture, so you can choose between Browsershot (which requires you to install Chromium) and Cloudflare Browser Rendering (which can be used on environments like Laravel Cloud).

Let me walk you through the package.

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Laravel Fuse is a circuit breaker package for Laravel queue jobs. When an external service like Stripe or Mailgun goes down, instead of letting thousands of jobs timeout (30s each), the circuit opens after a Read more…