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Laravel Route Binding Behind the Curtains
A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs. Read more
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★ Announcing laravel-sluggable v4 with self-healing URLs
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The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for any Eloquent model when you save it, derived from a title or another text field, and most of the time you don't have to think about it.
We just released v4, which adds a few things worth talking about. Let me walk you through them.
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How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities using Oh Dear
This practical guide shows how to use spatie/laravel-health together with Oh Dear to detect vulnerable Composer dependencies in production and get alerted quickly. It also shows how adding composer audit in CI gives you an Read more…
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Lock a shared test database for parallel test processes
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. That’s great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those Read more…
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Running GitHub Actions on a Mac Mini
Matthieu Napoli explains how he replaced GitHub-hosted CI with self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini at home. The setup is simple, fast, and a good look at the trade-offs around isolation, caching, and parallelism. Read Read more…
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Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
An absurd and very fun technical deep dive into getting Mac OS X 10.0 running natively on a Nintendo Wii. It covers the hardware investigation, boot process, kernel patching, and driver work needed to pull Read more…
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Understanding Traceroute
A clear walkthrough of how traceroute works under the hood. It explains the TTL trick, the ICMP replies routers send back, and even rebuilds the core idea in Rust. Read more
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Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption
We’ve shipped several improvements to the Oh Dear API to make it work better with AI coding agents. The updates include historical check runs, dashboard links in every response, and markdown-friendly documentation. Read more
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★ Generate Apple and Google Wallet passes from Laravel
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A mobile pass is that thing in your iPhone's Wallet app. A boarding pass, a concert ticket, a coffee loyalty card, a gym membership. Apple calls them passes. Google calls them objects. Both Wallet apps let you generate them, hand them out, and push live updates to the copy that's already on someone's device.
We just released Laravel Mobile Pass, a package that lets you generate those Apple and Google passes from a Laravel app and send updates to already issues passes.
Together with the package, we also published a demo site where you can create Apple Wallet passes and push an update so you can see it all working on your own iOS device.
Dan Johnson and I have been working on it for a while. Let me walk you through what it can do.
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In Praise of –dry-run
Henrik Warne makes a good case for adding a –dry-run mode to commands that change state. It gives you a fast, safe way to verify configuration, inspect behavior, and test workflows without side effects. Read Read more…