Tag: php

Larry Garfield argues that the AI coding conversation focuses too much on individual productivity and ignores the broader societal costs. Read more

Every page in Oh Dear now works on mobile. Not just slapped-on media queries, but reworked layouts: a floating action button for navigation, dedicated mobile card views for monitor lists, scrollable tables with fade hints, Read more…

A Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees found that AI makes workers take on more, not less. The productivity gains are real, but exhausting. Read more

Brian Lovin explains how to turn caps lock into a Hyper key that simulates pressing all four modifier keys at once. Use it for instant app switching, Raycast quicklinks, and custom window layouts. Read more

In this Tideways video, Brent’s blog post on writing faster PHP is put to the test with real profiling data.

Joel Clermont shares a simple trick to determine if a test is covering your application logic or just testing Laravel itself. If you can comment out a chunk of your code and the test still Read more…

We just released v10 of laravel-backup, our package that creates backups of your Laravel app. The backup is a zip file containing all files in the directories you specify, along with a dump of your Read more…

A simple scoring system for deciding what to build next. Score each idea on Strategic Heft, Income potential, and Perspiration (effort), then rank them to find your highest-ROI opportunities. Read more

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We just released v8 of Laravel Sitemap. This package that can generate sitemaps by crawling your entire site or by manually adding URLs. This version upgrades the underlying crawler to v9, adds a couple of nice new features, and cleans up the internals.

Let me walk you through what the package can do and what's new in v8.

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