Brendt shares fresh Packagist-based PHP version stats for July 2026: PHP 8.4 is now the most-used version, while PHP 8.5 reached 16% adoption after six months. He also notes that package minimum requirements still lag Read more…
Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play. We take this responsibility seriously and have been Read more…
Posted by Andrei Shikov, Senior Software Engineer, Android Toolkit and Jonathan Starup, Software Engineer, R8 Team Starting from AGP 9.2.0, R8 optimizes most Atomic*FieldUpdater calls into Unsafe variants that perform 2x to 4x better on Read more…
Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one Read more…
Mattias walks through moving an AI coding setup off a laptop and onto a private VPS. He covers Tailscale, tmux, a browser-based editor, and the small tweaks that make a remote setup practical from any Read more…
A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app’s actual database schema, safe to run in production because it only ever reads structure, never rows. Read more
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager and Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Experience Today at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled its latest lineup of foldable and wearable devices. For developers, this means that Read more…
I found there wasn’t any good SSRF prevention libraries for Laravel, so I built one. Very comprehensive tests based on this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wessels https://github.com/securized/laravel-ssrf Read more
Posted by Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Today, we officially celebrate five years since the release of Jetpack Compose 1.0. From version 1.0, announced on Read more…
In PyCharm 2026.2, you can build Python extensions with the new Rust plugin and debug them using debugpy, which is now the default engine. Running external utilities is now managed through a redesigned settings UI Read more…