Ohh it's Friday the 13th hope everyone has a great day today!! It's been another week of great posts! I've really enjoyed seeing Freek Van der Herten back doing what he does best making new packages! It's also been an interesting week on the AI front there have been some great articles and videos on the new Laravel AI SDK.
I've been lucky enough to have known Zuzana now for a few years and it's been great to see how she's been leading and growing Larabelles over the years. In this post with Abby she talks through how Larabelles came about, how its grown and the Laracon Scholarship Program.
Josh and Taylor talk us through the Laravel AI SDK that was recently released, walking you through the features it has and building a demo application showing you how easy it is to get going with the SDK.
A fascinating deep dive into Laravel's humble beginnings, exploring the original v1 directory structure from 2011 and examining what the framework looked like before Artisan, Blade, migrations, and Composer. Perfect for understanding how far Laravel has evolved from its minimalistic roots to become the PHP framework we know today.
A comprehensive tutorial showing how to create a macOS Spotlight-style application launcher using NativePHP, complete with app scanning, caching, launch tracking, and global shortcuts. The guide covers everything from setting up a menubar window to parsing app metadata and implementing intelligent app sorting based on usage frequency.
Matt Stauffer's latest podcast series Pragmatic AI. We all know right now things are moving so fast in the world of AI in particularly in the development world. Matt has been busy working on his new podcast which are short, practical interviews w/builders, founders, & researchers using & studying real-world AI. His first guest is the one and only Aaron Francis
In this video Jordan shows us how to create our own image generator MCP server using Laravel's new AI SDK w/MCP offering, hooking it up to claude AI getting it to generate an image for him. It's a nice little tutorial giving you a look at the new AI SDK
The NativePHP train keeps moving Simon and Shane have not only been super busy shipping they've been super busy giving talks at conferences! Off the back of Laracon India Eric Barnes caught up with them both to talk through some of the recent announcements for V3 and how preparations are going for Laracon EU!
In his latest episode of Laravel in Practice Harris shows us how to fix those pesky page jumps you might have seen in your real time Livewire dashboards.
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Caleb WhiteRector introduces a new SafeDeclareStrictTypesRector rule that safely adds PHP's strict_types declaration to files that are already type-safe, enabling progressive adoption without breaking existing code. This automated approach solves the common problem of manually adding strict types one file at a time while preventing future regressions.
A practical guide showing how the Strategy pattern transformed a messy 500-line switch statement into clean, maintainable code for converting XML forms to Formio.js JSON. The tutorial demonstrates real-world pattern implementation with Laravel-friendly examples, moving beyond abstract design pattern theory.
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Tony MessiasTony Messias explores Delegated Types, a powerful pattern from Rails for representing class hierarchies without inheritance, comparing it to Single-Table Inheritance and demonstrating practical Laravel implementations. The article covers real-world use cases inspired by 37signals' Campfire and shows how to handle complex data relationships more elegantly.
What does it take to build resilient Laravel applications? Zuzana joins Leah for a conversation about writing Laravel code that keeps working in production, from traffic spikes and flaky networks to third-party APIs. Together, they explore practical techniques including robust input validation, safer error handling, monitoring and logging, retries, graceful degradation, and testing beyond the happy path, so your applications remain reliable under real-world conditions.
Practical examples of implementing Laravel AI SDK in real applications, including mining user data for insights, building code review bots for GitHub/GitLab integration, and creating personalized learning systems. Shows complete code examples with Eloquent models and AI agent classes for common use cases.
Steve McDougall introduces Relay, a modern HTTP transport layer for PHP 8.5+ that leverages Fibers for native concurrency and treats HTTP responses as immutable signals rather than exceptions. The library offers a clean, functional API that makes concurrent HTTP requests look synchronous while eliminating the need for try-catch blocks around expected HTTP responses.