This week has been another great one! with Laracon India taking place over the weekend the FOMO was real we're now counting down the weeks to Laracon EU, Laravel Manchester and of course the next Laravel London, so lets dive into this weeks top ten
Steve McDougall shares a deeply personal story about his military service as a Route Clearance specialist in Afghanistan, drawing powerful parallels between high-stakes bomb disposal work and software development. A moving reflection on finding human connection in conflict zones and the lasting impact of service.
Trevor Morris shows us how to create custom maintenance mode pages in Laravel that properly handle both HTML and JSON responses for web browsers and APIs. The tutorial shows how to solve content negotiation issues by customising the exception handler instead of using the --render flag.
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Dries VintsHave you been wondering how you might go about generating PDFs in your applications that are hosted on Laravel Cloud. I know we have as its something we have to do in a number of our applications, we typically do this with tools like DOMPDF which of course has it's own dependencies that you might not be able to install on your cloud servers. Dries had the same thought and figured out a way to do this with Cloudflare, read his X thread to see how he achieved this.
When Stephen Rees-Carter tells you to update your packages you update your packages! This timely security reminder highlighting recent vulnerabilities in Livewire v3 and PsySH that are being actively exploited in the wild. The post emphasises the critical importance of keeping Laravel packages updated to protect against known security threats.
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Simon HampSimon Hamp guides you through building Native Apps with PHP. In this series you will learn to build native mobile and desktop applications using PHP through this comprehensive Laracasts series. Perfect for Laravel developers wanting to expand beyond web development into native app creation.
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Eric BarnesIt's here, we've been hearing all about it. It was demoed at Laracon India and now we get to play with it. Welcome to the Laravel AI SDK! you can now install and start to play with it and build AI applications. Taylor and Josh are doing a stream on the 9th of February where they will build and ship something amazing with it.
You've seen it everywhere on X, it's been renamed twice and is now called OpenClaw. Christoph Rumpel talks us through setting up OpenClaw on the new Laravel forge OpenClaw VPS servers.
We've all been there I'm sure, We've built our Livewire application and things are looking great, then we notice when we interact with one of the buttons it triggers a full page re-render NOOOO!!! Well @island are here to help stop this from happening.
A helpful reminder about Laravel's ddRawSql() debugging method and important security considerations. While great for development debugging, the output uses string interpolation rather than prepared statements, so it shouldn't be assumed to be injection-safe or used for building production queries.
Harris recently released his latest package Fuse. It's a Circuit breaker package for your queued jobs. Have you ever had an issue in your job where you might be using an external service and it goes down during the job, your queue works dont know, they keep making requests, they keep re-trying and waiting again. This could drastically slowdown and freeze your system. Fuse stops this through allowing you to set a configurable number of failures which once reached opens the circuit and stops the remaining jobs making those API calls.
A comprehensive guide to creating portable instruction manuals for Claude AI that teach domain-specific approaches, with a detailed walkthrough of building a production-grade Laravel API skill. Learn how to structure skills using progressive disclosure, make opinionated architectural decisions, and create reusable templates that others can contribute to and improve.
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Simon HampNativePHP announces that their core framework and essential plugins for building native iOS and Android apps with Laravel are now completely free starting with v3. The update introduces a new modular plugin system that makes native development more extensible while keeping apps slim and secure.
In this X Post Victor talks us through how he found out his server was hacked, how he found the root cause and how he was impacted by the Livewire CVE and why its super important to keep your packages up to date!