A nice profile of Jason McCreary and how Laravel Shift grew into a one-person business doing about $50K MRR. The most interesting bit is how raising prices, slowly and deliberately, turned it from a side Read more…
Rias Van der Veken shows how to make Laravel Boost work nicely in package development by pairing it with Orchestra Testbench. The article covers a few smart tweaks so Boost reads and writes in the Read more…
This post explains why Laravel queue workers and Horizon supervisors each keep their own compiled copy of your app in memory, and how that adds up fast on smaller servers. It also introduces queue-prefork, a Read more…
I like this idea very much. Inspired by this tweet, I added a tool to the MCP servers for Oh Dear, There There, and Mailcoach that lets agents report missing MCP or API functionality. If Read more…
Stan Daniels shares a practical checklist for tuning Laravel Horizon, from aligning timeouts and retry_after values to verifying deploy hooks and measuring real queue behavior before adding workers. It is a good reminder that queue Read more…
Ding is a toast notification library with playful spring physics, built to work with React, Svelte, or plain DOM. The site includes interactive demos for layout, sounds, themes, and different toast behaviors. Read more
Amit Merchant argues that skills, prompts, plugins, and MCP servers are becoming dependencies of AI agents, and should be versioned and managed like application code. He also highlights APM as a way to install reproducible Read more…
This tutorial shows how to build a PHP CLI tool that returns JSON, package it for Composer, and run it from anywhere with CPX. It also explains why CPX is a nicer alternative to globally Read more…
Using Stripe data across about 181,000 subscription businesses, Mack Grenfell argues the SaaS slowdown became visible in October, when median revenue growth turned negative across most peer groups. He suggests the bigger problem is fewer Read more…
Felix Rieseberg argues that AI is changing what makes junior engineers valuable. He makes the case that fresh perspective, ambition, and quick prototypes can beat tenure when execution is cheap. Read more