I recently tested several different LLMs by tasking them with implementing a simple authentication feature for a web app. It is clear that almost all modern LLMs are now excellent at following a structured blueprint. However, the real differences appeared when looking under the hood at the security ...

Michael Dyrynda shows how Laravel's distinct validation rule can protect nested request payloads from duplicate reference values before they corrupt relationship mapping. He also highlights the strict and ignore_case options for cases where loose comparison is not enough. Read more

Laracon AU has officially unveiled its full 2026 schedule, including all speakers, talks, and workshops for this year's event. The post Laracon AU 2026 Announces Full Speaker Lineup, Schedule, and Workshops appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this...

Storing data as a sequence of events - RubyConfAt lightning talk supplement This post originated from the lightning talk and the discussions I had afterward at RubyConfAt. It was a great conference. Especially the music part was amazing. Big kudos and applause to the organizers, once again! The Ligh...

We are producing more with AI. What we’re producing less of, apparently, is honest reflection on what that actually means. The internet is full of frameworks, prompt guides, and tutorials promising you’ll “10x your productivity overnight.” The question nobody seems to want to answer is whether any o...

Having used Claude Code for a few months now, I have noticed how software development has changed for me. I write a lot less code, but I spend more time understanding and testing the code Claude has written. The proportions … Continue reading →

Call me crazy, but I feel like I've been reading the same fucking article over and over again the last few months. My main consumption website is Hacker News, specifically the front page. It's flooded with "AI" content, no shocker there. What's been starting to not sit right with me is the clusterin...

Comprehensive guide covering this topic with practical implementation details. Continue reading Which DeepSeek Model Fits Your Hardware? VRAM Sizing Guide for 2026 on SitePoint.

Comprehensive guide covering this topic with practical implementation details. Continue reading How to Route DeepSeek-V4 Through Claude Code for Local Agentic Coding on SitePoint.

Comprehensive guide covering this topic with practical implementation details. Continue reading Claude Code Plan Mode: The Read-First Workflow for Complex Refactors on SitePoint.

Personalized digital spaces designed with care and emotional intention may offer a new way to support self-awareness, emotional growth, and the processing of difficult experiences in an increasingly AI-driven world.

Compare the top payment orchestration platforms in 2026. Reviews Akurateco, Spreedly, Primer, Gr4vy, Yuno, and more for merchants, PSPs, fintechs, and developers. Continue reading Payment Orchestration Platforms in 2026: The Developer’s Guide to a More Flexible Payment Stack on SitePoint.

How do you currently give feedback to new team members as they’re onboarding in their new role? How do you set clear expectations for them of what success looks like? When we onboarded two delivery leads to the Ann Arbor office last year, we experimented with a lightweight informal feedback framewor...

Every shares how its team uses AI agents in a compounding loop of planning, working, assessing, and feeding lessons back into the system. The big idea: each feature should make the next one easier to build because the agents keep learning the codebase. Read more

An inside look at the stack powering There There: Laravel, Inertia, React, TypeScript, Horizon, Reverb, and a bunch of Spatie packages and services. A nice overview of the pragmatic tooling choices behind the product. Read more

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null Continue reading AI Is Not Your Accessibility Expert: What LLMs Still Miss About WCAG on SitePoint.

My blog turned 16 this month! I did nothing to celebrate, but made some little tools and clicked some links about tech ethics. Things from me this month I published four little tools this month: ZIP Shrinker, a web app that shrinks ZIP files with higher compression ratios A command line tool to do (...

Why this series existsThe methodology described in Evolutionary Database Design and...

Most enterprises have a team that deals with AI. Fewer have AI fully operationalized....

Are any software testing Meetups looking for a speaker? I have a talk, all ready to go!After surviving the first round of layoffs last December, I scrambled to organize my research notes on building a mobile automation framework into a presentation. I managed to finish it days before I was hit by th...

P2P marketplaces need more than email alerts. Real-time buyer-seller chat, seller presence, push for offers and shipping, and in-line moderation—so negotiations stay in your app. See how PubNub helps.

P2P marketplaces need more than email alerts. Real-time buyer-seller chat, seller presence, push for offers and shipping, and in-line moderation—so negotiations stay in your app. See how PubNub helps.

Databricks continues to lead the way in engineering innovation, consistently pushing...

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Starting January 1, 2026, over 700 hospitals across the United States faced a new...