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Is your team still hand-chiseling code?
Geocodio shares practical advice on getting engineering teams to adopt AI tools like Claude Code, addressing the growing gap between eager adopters and skeptical engineers. Read more
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★ Laravel Site Search v3 is here: crawl and search your entire site using just your database
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We're proud to release v3 of laravel-site-search, a package that crawls and indexes your entire site. Think of it as your own private Google. Point it at a URL, let it crawl every page, and get full-text search results back.
Previous versions required Meilisearch as the search engine. That works well, but it means running a separate service.
With v3, your application's own database is all you need. It supports SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB out of the box, and it's the new default.
Let me walk you through it.
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★ How to easily access private properties and methods in PHP
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Sometimes you need to access a private property or method on an object that isn't yours. Maybe you're writing a test and need to assert some internal state. Maybe you're building a package that needs to reach into another object's internals. Whatever the reason, PHP's visibility rules are standing in your way.
Our spatie/invade package provides a tiny invade function that lets you read, write, and call private members on any object.
You probably shouldn't reach for this package often. It's most useful in tests or when you're building a package that needs to integrate deeply with objects you don't control.
Let me walk you through how it works.
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Quick tips: Sending Laravel output to Ray automatically
A handy overview of the Ray configuration options in Laravel. You can automatically send duplicate queries, slow queries, exceptions, and dump output straight to Ray without adding any ray() calls to your code. Read more
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Creating The Perfect Claude Code Status Line
A walkthrough of building a useful Claude Code status line that shows your current repo, git branch, staged/unstaged changes, and context window usage percentage. The context percentage is the most valuable part: it helps you Read more…
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Selfish AI
Larry Garfield argues that the AI coding conversation focuses too much on individual productivity and ignores the broader societal costs. Read more
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Oh Dear is now mobile-friendly
Every page in Oh Dear now works on mobile. Not just slapped-on media queries, but reworked layouts: a floating action button for navigation, dedicated mobile card views for monitor lists, scrollable tables with fade hints, Read more…
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
A Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees found that AI makes workers take on more, not less. The productivity gains are real, but exhausting. Read more
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Use the Hyper key
Brian Lovin explains how to turn caps lock into a Hyper key that simulates pressing all four modifier keys at once. Use it for instant app switching, Raycast quicklinks, and custom window layouts. Read more
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Write Faster PHP Code: Retracing Brent’s Steps
In this Tideways video, Brent’s blog post on writing faster PHP is put to the test with real profiling data.