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A few months ago we started building There There, a helpdesk we're making at Spatie. The premise is simple. After two decades of running customer support for our open source work and our SaaS apps, we wanted the tool we always wished existed.

One thing we care about in particular is using AI to help humans craft better responses, not to replace them. The agent stays in charge of the conversation. The model just helps them reply faster and a little sharper. There There is in private beta right now, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app.

We're building There There with Laravel and Inertia, and we lean heavily on the latest features Inertia v3 brings. In this post I'd like to give one example: optimistic updates.

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A lovely analogy about software craft. Same ingredients, same features, but the invisible process behind the decisions is what separates “this works” from “this feels right.” Read more

Ryan Chandler shares his honest journey from unease to acceptance with AI coding tools. A thoughtful reflection on how your value as a software engineer is not in writing every line, but knowing which lines Read more…

A good reminder that trust matters more than ever when every week brings another AI-made product. The post argues that real faces, founder stories, and a visible reputation help both people and LLMs trust what Read more…

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Steve Schoger shows how he uses Claude Code to design and build UIs, turning natural language prompts into polished interfaces.

My thoughts on why Agentic Engineering is a better path than Vibe Coding, and the workflow I use to turn AI agents into a structured engineering process. Read more

SlideWire is a Laravel package for building browser-based presentation decks using Livewire components and Blade templates. It comes with built-in navigation, transitions, syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams. Read more

A deep dive into how Blaze works internally. Matt Stauffer builds two toy versions from scratch to show how Blaze shifts Blade component rendering from runtime to compile time. Read more

Martin Fowler explores why AI coding sessions degrade over time and how externalizing decisions into structured documents keeps context reliable across sessions. Read more