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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.
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How to tell if you’re testing the framework
Joel Clermont shares a simple trick to determine if a test is covering your application logic or just testing Laravel itself. If you can comment out a chunk of your code and the test still Read more…
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★ Laravel Backup v10: serializable events, resilient multi-destination backups, and more
We just released v10 of laravel-backup, our package that creates backups of your Laravel app. The backup is a zip file containing all files in the directories you specify, along with a dump of your Read more…
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Introducing the SHIP Score: Straightforward prioritization for indie founders
A simple scoring system for deciding what to build next. Score each idea on Strategic Heft, Income potential, and Perspiration (effort), then rank them to find your highest-ROI opportunities. Read more
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★ Laravel Sitemap v8 is here: automatic splitting, XSL stylesheets, and crawler v9
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We just released v8 of Laravel Sitemap. This package that can generate sitemaps by crawling your entire site or by manually adding URLs. This version upgrades the underlying crawler to v9, adds a couple of nice new features, and cleans up the internals.
Let me walk you through what the package can do and what's new in v8.
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★ My Claude Code setup
I’ve been using Claude Code as my daily driver for coding tasks. Over time, I’ve built up a pretty specific configuration that makes the whole experience better. I keep everything in my dotfiles repo under Read more…
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★ Building a PHP CLI for humans and AI agents with almost no hand-written code
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We recently released the Flare CLI, a command-line tool to manage your errors and performance data. It also ships with an agent skill that lets AI coding agents use Flare on your behalf.
The CLI has dozens of commands and hundreds of options, yet we only wrote four commands by hand. Our laravel-openapi-cli package made this possible: point it at an OpenAPI spec, and it generates fully typed artisan commands for every endpoint automatically.
Here's how we put it all together.
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★ Let your AI coding agent fix your errors and review performance
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The Flare CLI lets you manage errors and performance monitoring from the terminal. It was built with almost no hand-written code, generated from our OpenAPI spec. Having a CLI is useful on its own, but where it gets really interesting is when you let an AI coding agent use it.
The Flare CLI ships with an agent skill that teaches AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex how to interact with Flare on your behalf. Let me show you how it works.