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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.
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★ Introducing the Flare CLI
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At Flare, we track errors and monitor performance for your applications. Until now, that meant opening the Flare dashboard in your browser whenever you wanted to check on things.
We just released the Flare CLI, a command-line tool that lets you manage your errors, projects, and performance monitoring data directly from the terminal. It also ships with an agent skill that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor use Flare on your behalf. And the fun part: the entire CLI was built with almost no hand-written code, generated from our OpenAPI spec.
Let me walk you through how to install and use the CLI.
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★ Generate OG images for your Laravel app
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When you share a link on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, the platform shows a preview image. Getting those Open Graph images right usually means either using an external service or setting up a separate rendering pipeline. We just released laravel-og-image, a package that lets you define your OG image as HTML right inside your Blade views. The package takes a screenshot of that HTML and serves it as the OG image. No external API needed, everything runs on your own server.
Let me walk you through what the package can do.
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★ Adding a custom status line to Claude Code
Claude Code has a nice little feature called the status line that lets you add a custom bar at the bottom of the terminal. I use it to show the current repo name and how Read more…
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Creating The Perfect Claude Code Status Line
Matt Pocock shares his ideal Claude Code status line setup, showing repo name, git branch info, and context window usage percentage. The post includes step-by-step instructions using bash scripts and the ccstatusline package. Read more
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★ Laravel Permission v7 has been launched
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Laravel's built-in authorization is great when permissions are defined in code. With gates and policies, you can write logic like this:
// Defined in code, requires a deploy to change Gate::define('edit-posts', function (User $user) { return $user->is_admin; });
But in some projects roles and permissions are dynamic: created by users, managed through an admin panel, or changed at runtime without deploying code. Our Laravel Permission package can help you dynamically create roles and permissions.
We just released v7 which doesn't bring any new features, but cleans up the internal code and modernizes it. Let me walk you through what the package can do.
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Tempest 3.0
Tempest 3.0 has been released with a new exception handler, PHP 8.5 as minimum requirement, improved CSRF protection using browser headers, database performance improvements, and closure-based validation rules. Read more
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★ A clean API for reading PHP attributes
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PHP 8.0 introduced attributes, and they're a great way to add structured metadata to classes, methods, properties, constants, and parameters. The concept is solid, but the reflection API you need to actually read them is surprisingly verbose. What should be a simple one-liner ends up being multiple lines of boilerplate every time. And if you want to find all usages of an attribute across an entire class, you're looking at deeply nested loops.
We just released spatie/php-attribute-reader, a package that gives you a clean, static API for all of that. Let me walk you through what it can do.