Ryan Chandler makes a strong case for keeping PR descriptions human-written, even when agents handle most of the implementation. The piece focuses on ownership, review context, and why a concise explanation from the person driving the change is more useful than a long AI-generated summary. Read more

A clear overview of PHP 8.6's readonly property defaults RFC, why the old restriction existed, and why interface properties made it worth revisiting. It also covers the practical edge cases, so you know where the new syntax helps and where it still does not. Read more

A clear walkthrough of Laravel's Context feature and how it lets execution-scoped information travel through your app. It also explains why that matters for logging, queued jobs, and keeping trace data available without threading it through every method call. Read more

A practical engineering write-up on moving Pinkary from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud. It walks through the real migration issues they hit, including SQLite to MySQL differences, query rewrites, and storage assumptions in the codebase. Read more

I've been writing about There There a lot lately. It's a helpdesk we're building at Spatie, born from two decades of running our own customer support for our open source work and SaaS apps. After all that time being the customer of other helpdesks, we finally started on the one we actually wanted to...

Over the past few weeks I've posted a couple of times about There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie. After two decades of running our own customer support, we decided to stop compromising on tools and build the one we actually want to use. A lot of the fun is on the AI side. We're not usi...

At Spatie we build SaaS apps with Laravel on the backend and Inertia with React on the frontend. That split means two type systems have to agree about every payload that crosses between them. Laravel data going out, TypeScript picking it up. There There, the helpdesk we're building, is built exactly...

There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie, is a project of learned habits. Twenty-some years of writing Laravel apps has taught us which patterns pay off and which ones quietly rot. One that keeps earning its keep is a custom exception class for every domain error. This is a small pattern, ...

A couple of posts back I walked through the agent and tools we built on top of the Laravel AI SDK for There There, the helpdesk we're putting together at Spatie. I ended that post on a small cliffhanger. We hand the agent off to a streaming service that turns the SDK's response stream into events th...

A practical post on hardening Laravel projects against destructive AI agent behavior. It walks through the PocketOS incident and shows concrete safeguards like deny rules, credential isolation, and production guardrails. Read more

A video by the Syntax team on why they're using GPUI across more and more of their work. It offers a practical look at what makes GPUI appealing for modern tooling.

A short video by Justin Jackson on ambition, motivation, and the question of how much you really want something. It looks like a thoughtful prompt for anyone building or creating over the long term.

A look back at Packagist's first 15 years, from the first Composer experiments to more than 200 billion package installs. It also covers the team's recent supply chain security work and what they're building next. Read more

Recently I wrote about how we use Jev in There There to detect spam, bounces, and automatic replies. Jev reads an incoming email and answers questions we define up front. We keep the probabilities and decide in our own code what counts as a match. The cheap checks on mail headers still run first. Th...

Jason Cohen shares a blunt framework for separating the rare 10x opportunities from the many 0.1x tasks that quietly consume time. It is a strong piece on ruthless prioritization, delegation, and why most backlogs should be archived instead of endlessly maintained. Read more

Large photo uploads can be slow, but resizing and compressing images in the browser can freeze the page if the work runs on the main thread. This article shows how to use a Web Worker to process images before uploading them without interrupting the app. Read more

What Agent Experience engineering means in practice: discoverable code paths, scoped agent instructions, useful feedback, and human ownership of risky decisions. Read more

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 screenshot comparisons to keep the light theme intact. Read more

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. How Jev is different from an LLM Jev is made by TypeSafe. An LLM generates text: y...

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

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

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

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

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 the trade-offs of client-side AI compared to traditional AI providers. Read more

Split a task into reasoning and execution to get deterministic behaviour out of a non-deterministic model. Read more

An interesting article on how PHP is used by the government. Read more

In this article, we’ll build an AI-powered Slack bot with the Laravel AI SDK. Unlike tools such as Claude Tag, it can switch AI providers, answer questions, execute tasks, and retrieve information from a knowledge base you control. Read more

Tom Wilson reflects on what AI is changing for design engineers, and where human judgment still matters. He argues that agents can take over more of the scaffolding work, while product taste, restraint, and polished visual craft remain the real edge. Read more

A deep dive into modular monoliths, from module APIs and database ownership to cross-module communication, architecture tests, incremental migration, and the signals that justify microservices. Read more

A deep dive into immutability in PHP, from readonly properties and interior mutability to immutable value objects, collections, dates, cloning, boundaries, and testing. Read more