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Agent Experience Engineering: Designing Software Agents Can Work With
What Agent Experience engineering means in practice: discoverable code paths, scoped agent instructions, useful feedback, and human ownership of risky decisions. Read more
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Introducing: Dark mode for Flare
Flare now has a dark mode, and this post walks through the design work needed to make it feel right and stay accessible. Nice details on semantic color tokens, fixing gradients and shadows, and using Read more…
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★ Detecting spam and auto-replies with Jev and the Laravel AI SDK
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Yesterday Taylor announced that Jev support landed in the 1.x branch of the Laravel AI SDK. We started using it that same day for spam detection in There There. Let's take a look at what Jev is and how you can use it.
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What’s New in PHP 8.6
A concise overview of what’s coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, clamp(), the new Duration class, and several smaller language and standard library improvements. Read more
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Logarithmic auto-scaling for Laravel Horizon
A thoughtful write-up on adding logarithmic auto-scaling to Laravel Horizon. It shows how log-based weighting keeps huge queue spikes from starving smaller realtime queues while still giving large backlogs enough workers. Read more
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Eloquent Performance and Database Design: Evidence Before Eager Loading
A deep dive into Eloquent performance, from detecting N+1 queries to choosing aggregates, indexes, query plans, pagination, chunking, and transaction boundaries for a growing team dashboard. Read more
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A Series of Unfortunate Jobs
Laravel queues are great out of the box, until they bite. Over the years I’ve collected a few gotchas the hard way. Let me save you the headache. Read more
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Run AI in the Browser: A Practical Guide to Transformers.js
Transformers.js lets you run AI models directly in the browser without a backend, API keys, or an internet connection after the model is cached. The article explores how it works, which models are available, and Read more…
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Using AI as a deterministic translation tool in Laravel
Split a task into reasoning and execution to get deterministic behaviour out of a non-deterministic model. Read more
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Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP
An interesting article on how PHP is used by the government. Read more