Artisan Weekly Edition 88

Edition №88

Published

Week ending June 12, 2026

Items

10 featured · 7 notable

● Top 10 Video companion
on YouTube

Editor's
Note

its less than 7 days to Laravel Live UK the team cant wait, we're heading down wednesday afternoon so if anyone is around let us know. PHPVerse 2026 was on Wednesday it looked like another good one with great speakers and talks.

By
Daniel Newns

Top 10 Links

Featured · Edition 88

Other surveys.jetbrains.com

The State of PHP 2026

The PHP Foundation and JetBrains are conducting their first annual State of PHP census to map the global PHP ecosystem. Spare 15 minutes to participate in this survey and help chart the worldwide elePHPant population, with a chance to win one of five EUR 500 vouchers.

JetBrains

Blog Post juststeveking.com

API Tips and Tricks from My Book

Steve shares key insights from his new book 'API Artisan: A guide to building APIs in Laravel', covering essential patterns for building Laravel APIs that developers actually want to use. Learn about measuring the right metrics, designing contracts before code, and understanding what truly constitutes a breaking change.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post wendelladriel.com

Eloquent Query Classes Pattern

An in-depth exploration of the Eloquent Query Classes pattern in Laravel, explaining how to organise complex database queries into dedicated classes to avoid duplication and improve maintainability as your application grows.

Wendell Adriel

Blog Post filamentphp.com

Audit your Filament app's security with Blueprint

Filament Blueprint v1.2 introduces a new Security Audit skill that analyses your application's use of Filament and generates a remediation plan for security issues. The tool checks for common misconfigurations including access control, file uploads, XSS vulnerabilities, and query scoping, providing actionable fixes linked directly to the relevant documentation.

Dan Harrin

GitHub Repository Package github.com

PHPStan rules to measure cognitive complexity of your classes and methods

A PHPStan extension that measures cognitive complexity in your PHP code, helping you identify difficult-to-understand functions and class dependency trees. It provides configurable rules to keep your code maintainable by flagging overly complex classes and methods.

Tomas Votruba

Blog Post mmramadan.com

Laravel Collections Bug Caused by Arrow Functions

Explores a subtle Laravel Collections bug where arrow functions caused early iteration termination due to implicit return values, and how switching to anonymous functions resolved the issue by returning null instead of false.

Mahmoud Ramadan

Blog Post leopoletto.dev

3 Years of Laravel Jobs: What 699 LaraJobs Emails Actually Say About the Market

A comprehensive data analysis of 699 Laravel job postings from 2023-2026, examining market trends through automated email processing with GPT-5 mini. Includes open-source pipeline code, salary insights, and detailed breakdowns of remote work patterns, engagement types, and skill requirements in the Laravel ecosystem.

Leonardo Poletto

Blog Post jordandalton.com

Building a Ralph Loop With Laravel's AI SDK

Learn how to implement a Ralph loop pattern inside a Laravel application using the AI SDK, with durable database state instead of filesystem files. Demonstrates building an agent system that processes 1,400 products with fresh context each iteration, custom tools, and verifiable completion conditions.

Jordan Dalton

X Post x.com

We had some interesting developments in the pursuit for Generics in PHP this week on the internals mailing list This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026

Len Woodward shares exciting updates about the ongoing discussion around implementing Generics in PHP from the internals mailing list. He covers the latest developments in his weekly PHP Internals recap video.

Len Woodward

YouTube Video youtube.com

My AI Writes Perfect* PHP | Ashley Hindle | PHPverse 2026

In this talk, Ashley show us his real day-to-day setup live, explain what he's learned on this journey, and give you a checklist you can use to get your own projects writing PHP you don't have to fight.

Ashley Hindle

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Blog Post mujahidabbas.dev

Building RAG in Laravel: Four Ingestion Bugs That Silently Wreck Retrieval

A detailed exploration of four common ingestion bugs in Laravel RAG systems that silently degrade retrieval quality, including chunk boundary issues, index mismatches, dimension mismatches, and embedding model changes. The article demonstrates how to measure and fix each problem using pgvector and proper evaluation techniques.

Mujahid Abbas

Blog Post

Blog Post simplestats.io

A/B Testing for Laravel

Learn how to implement A/B testing in your Laravel applications with SimpleStats, helping you make data-driven decisions about features and optimise user experiences.

Zacharias Creutznacher

Blog Post

Blog Post juststeveking.com

Testing Actions, Not Mocks

Steve McDougall explains why testing Laravel Action classes against real databases is more effective than mocking. He demonstrates how mock-heavy tests can pass whilst features break, and shares his approach to writing meaningful tests that verify actual behaviour rather than just method calls.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post

Blog Post securinglaravel.com

In Depth: Version Numbers Are Vanity Labels

A deep dive into how supply chain attacks exploit version tags in package management systems. Examines recent attacks on tj-actions/changed-files and Laravel-Lang, explaining how attackers manipulate repository tags to inject malicious code into trusted dependencies.

Stephen Rees-Carter

Blog Post

Blog Post apnahive.com

Laravel Security in 2026: The Checklist Your App Probably Fails on Items 4, 7, and 11

A comprehensive security audit checklist for Laravel applications covering common vulnerabilities like SQL injection, mass assignment, XSS, and CSRF. Provides practical code examples showing both vulnerable patterns and the exact fixes needed to secure production apps.

Sadique Ali

Blog Post

Blog Post mujahidabbas.dev

Evals in Laravel: How to Prove Your AI Output Is Actually Good

A practical guide to implementing AI evaluations in Laravel applications. Learn how to move beyond mocked tests and build proper evals that measure whether your AI features actually produce quality output, with concrete examples for both structured and freeform responses.

Mujahid Abbas

Blog Post

Blog Post laravel-badge.peterfox.me

Using Composer 2.10 to Help Your Users Stay Secure

A guide for Laravel package developers on leveraging Composer 2.10's new security features, including malware filtering and security advisory blocking. Learn how to protect your users by properly filing advisories and bumping minimum dependency versions when vulnerabilities are discovered.

Peter Fox

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