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What’s new in PHP 8.6
Brent surveys the most notable additions coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, the new polling API, readonly property defaults, and several smaller improvements and deprecations. Read more
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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Ankur Sethi argues that manually retyping LLM-generated code is a practical way to avoid cognitive debt. It slows you down, but helps you understand the code, catch bad suggestions, and keep a strong mental model Read more…
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We Became Editors-in-Chief, and Nobody Trained Us
An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior Read more…
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PHP version stats: July, 2026
Brendt shares fresh Packagist-based PHP version stats for July 2026: PHP 8.4 is now the most-used version, while PHP 8.5 reached 16% adoption after six months. He also notes that package minimum requirements still lag Read more…
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Building an order fulfilment workflow in Laravel
Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one Read more…
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Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding on a VPS
Mattias walks through moving an AI coding setup off a laptop and onto a private VPS. He covers Tailscale, tmux, a browser-based editor, and the small tweaks that make a remote setup practical from any Read more…
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There’s no artisan schema:show, so I built one
A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app’s actual database schema, safe to run in production because it only ever reads structure, never rows. Read more
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Preventing SSRF in Laravel: Why Blocking Private IPs Fails
I found there wasn’t any good SSRF prevention libraries for Laravel, so I built one. Very comprehensive tests based on this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wessels https://github.com/securized/laravel-ssrf Read more
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PHP Attributes: What, Why, How and When
A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better. Read more
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Claude Code Routines: A Third Way Beyond /goal and /loop
There’s a third way to automate Claude Code, and unlike /goal and /loop, it doesn’t need your laptop open at all. Anthropic just shipped routines: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or Read more…