PHP
★ Introducing Ray 3.0
Ray 3.0 is here! Completely rebuilt for better performance (60% less memory), a fresh new look, message archiving, and MCP support so AI agents can interact with Ray directly. Read more
PHP
Personal AI Assistants Changed Everything For Me
Christoph reflects on how personal AI assistants have changed his daily workflow — from calendar updates to searching the web less. An interesting take on where this technology is heading. Read more
Python
Python Typing Book Kickstarter
Python has had type hinting support since Python 3.5, over TEN years ago! However, Python’s type annotations have changed repeatedly over the years. In Python Typing: Type Checking for Python Programmers, you will learn all you Read more…
PHP
Partial function application in PHP 8.6
PHP 8.6 will introduce partial function application, allowing you to pre-fill some arguments while leaving others for later. Brent explains this new language feature with practical examples. Read more
PHP
★ I built a native mobile word game in two weeks
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At Laracon India, I launched a major update of Ray. For that talk, I needed a little demo project to showcase Ray. I built a simple website about a then-fictional mobile app to play a Scrabble-like word game called WordStockt.
But then I got curious: how far could I push AI-assisted development? Could I actually just create the whole game? After about 10 days, WordStockt is a fully functional word game that's 98% vibe-coded. It's available for iOS and Android. In this post, I'd like to tell you more about it.
PHP
Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
Brent continues his optimization journey processing 11 million database events. Starting from 50k events per second, he implements combined inserts, skips unnecessary deserialization, and reaches 400k events per second. A great deep dive into PHP Read more…
Android
Accelerating your insights with faster, smarter monetization data and recommendations
Posted by Phalene Gowling, Product Manager, Google Play To build a thriving business on Google Play, you need more than just data – you need a clear path to action. Today, we’re announcing a suite of Read more…
PHP
Semantic Diffusion
Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a “telephone game” of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Read more…
Android
How Automated Prompt Optimization Unlocks Quality Gains for ML Kit’s GenAI Prompt API
Posted by Chetan Tekur, PM at AI Innovation and Research, Chao Zhao, SWE at AI Innovation and Research, Paul Zhou, Prompt Quality Lead at GCP Cloud AI and Industry Solutions, and Caren Chang, Developer Relations Read more…
Python
Google Colab Support Is Now Available in PyCharm 2025.3.2
PyCharm is designed to support the full range of modern Python workflows, from web development to data and ML/AI work, in a single IDE. An essential part of these workflows is Jupyter notebooks, which are Read more…