Ryan Chandler makes a strong case for keeping PR descriptions human-written, even when agents handle most of the implementation. The piece focuses on ownership, review context, and why a concise explanation from the person driving Read more…
A clear overview of PHP 8.6’s readonly property defaults RFC, why the old restriction existed, and why interface properties made it worth revisiting. It also covers the practical edge cases, so you know where the Read more…
A clear walkthrough of Laravel’s Context feature and how it lets execution-scoped information travel through your app. It also explains why that matters for logging, queued jobs, and keeping trace data available without threading it Read more…
A practical engineering write-up on moving Pinkary from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud. It walks through the real migration issues they hit, including SQLite to MySQL differences, query rewrites, and storage assumptions in the codebase. Read more…
I’ve been writing about There There a lot lately. It’s a helpdesk we’re building at Spatie, born from two decades of running our own customer support for our open source work and SaaS apps. After Read more…
Over the past few weeks I’ve posted a couple of times about There There, the helpdesk we’re building at Spatie. After two decades of running our own customer support, we decided to stop compromising on Read more…
At Spatie we build SaaS apps with Laravel on the backend and Inertia with React on the frontend. That split means two type systems have to agree about every payload that crosses between them. Laravel Read more…
There There, the helpdesk we’re building at Spatie, is a project of learned habits. Twenty-some years of writing Laravel apps has taught us which patterns pay off and which ones quietly rot. One that keeps Read more…
A couple of posts back I walked through the agent and tools we built on top of the Laravel AI SDK for There There, the helpdesk we’re putting together at Spatie. I ended that post Read more…
A practical post on hardening Laravel projects against destructive AI agent behavior. It walks through the PocketOS incident and shows concrete safeguards like deny rules, credential isolation, and production guardrails. Read more