Well this weeks edition is now complete and I'll admit it's got some fun things in it this week and I don't just mean its full of April Fools Jokes as I dont think there is a single one in there. But we do have a fun video of what happens when you take 150 engineers to a golf course and let them loose on it and some great news coming out of the PHP Foundation with a brand new member added to the board one that we all know and we all appreciate the work that he puts in to the community. So grab a cup of tea or coffee whichever you prefer and checkout this weeks Artisan Weekly Edition
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LaravelTime for a bit of Fun. At Laracon US in 2025 the Laravel team organised a little bit of fun for day 0 of Laracon. They took 150 engineers to a golf course to play 9 holes of golf with a twist. check out the video to find out more!
Matt joins Eric on the latest Laravel News video where they talk about Matts recent appointment to the PHP Foundation board.
A thoughtful reflection on the evolving role of developers in an AI-assisted world, exploring how tools like AI code completion change our relationship with coding from construction to curation. Ryan shares insights on finding value as a software engineer when AI handles much of the code generation, emphasizing that our worth lies in understanding intent, context, and making architectural decisions rather than writing every line of code.
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Nuno MaduroAt first you could be mistaken for thinking is this video an April Fools thanks to the day it was released on but no, Nuno has done it again. He's created a nice package that you can install that helps bring down your AI Token usage when running your test suite. Just think of all those extra tokens you can now use!
A detailed case study showing how the Laravel team used Nightwatch to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in Laravel Cloud's environment dashboard, reducing response times by 60% and database queries by 38%. The post walks through the debugging process and specific optimisations made to improve user experience on one of the platform's most-visited pages.
Episode 3 in the Ship AI with Laravel series Harris walks us through a ticket classifier for the support agent to help classify and assign tickets when the customers raise issues.
Freek introduces Scotty, a new SSH task runner that provides beautiful real-time output and pause/resume functionality for deploy scripts. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format, making it easier to run and monitor remote tasks from your terminal.
A comprehensive overview of Statamic 6's major release featuring a completely redesigned control panel, built-in security features, and modern development tools. This update includes over 1,000 improvements and represents the biggest release in Statamic's history.
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GhostableA comprehensive security alert explaining how the Axios npm package compromise on March 31, 2026 could affect Laravel applications using modern frontend tooling. The post provides practical steps to check if your Laravel projects were impacted and includes specific commands to search lockfiles for the malicious package versions.
Laravel introduces Maestro, an orchestrator tool that streamlines the maintenance of 21 starter kit variants by centralizing changes in a single repository instead of manually updating multiple repositories. This tool transforms the contributor workflow by letting developers work on built kit variants while automatically syncing changes back to the correct source layers.
A thoughtful reflection on why human code review remains essential even for AI-generated code that works correctly. The author shares a real example of working with Claude AI on a Livewire component, highlighting how context and programmer taste still matter for code quality and maintainability.
Spatie introduces ourray.app, a cloud-based shared Ray debugging instance that lets developers broadcast their debugging output to the entire community in real-time. This innovative tool transforms debugging from a solo activity into a collaborative experience, perfect for pair programming, teaching, or just connecting with fellow developers worldwide.
A podcast episode featuring Michael Aerni discussing Statamic development and his work in the community. Host Michael LaRoy interviews fellow developer Aerni about his contributions to the Statamic ecosystem and web development insights.
Can PHP handle 65 million items in a single array? Not natively, it would choke on the memory overhead. In this deep dive, I explain why PHP arrays are "heavy" (hint: they're actually complex hash tables) and demonstrates a clever workaround using FFI (Foreign Function Interface). By bypassing PHP's standard data structures in favour of raw C structs, they achieved a 45x increase in data density, fitting 65 million records into just 512MB of RAM. It's a fascinating look at the "hidden tax" of high-level languages and how to break those limits when performance is everything.
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Stephen JudeA comprehensive guide to installing and using PIE, the modern replacement for deprecated PECL, to easily install PHP extensions on macOS. Includes practical examples for popular extensions like MongoDB, Xdebug, Swoole, and Redis, plus Laravel Herd-specific workarounds.
The PHP Foundation announces that Matt Stauffer, a well-known Laravel expert and open source contributor, has joined their board as a community representative. This exciting news brings decades of PHP ecosystem experience to the Foundation's leadership team.
Learn how to build production-safe database tools for AI agents using the Laravel AI SDK, including individual query tools and vector search capabilities. This comprehensive guide shows how to connect AI agents to your database while maintaining security and performance through proper scoping and read-only connections.
Prompt Deck gives Laravel applications a structured way to manage AI prompts — storing them as versioned markdown files on disk rather than embedding strings directly in application code.