Artisan Weekly Edition 91

Edition №91

Published

Week ending July 3, 2026

Items

10 featured · 2 notable

● Top 10 Video companion
on YouTube

Editor's
Note

Laravel London on the 8th Of JUly Nuno Maduro doing a 48 hour build a slack app in laravel live streamed on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHN3wHdP8Q Our Laravel Live Interview videos are currently being edited ready for release.

By
Daniel Newns

Top 10 Links

Featured · Edition 91

Blog Post ollieread.com

You Probably Don't Need a Database Per Tenant

Have you ever wondered should we be using a database per tenant for your multi tenancy application. Well Ollie Read has you covered here with this very thorough post on what you should be doing in your multi tenancy application.

Ollie Read

YouTube Video youtube.com

This Week in PHP Internals | July 1, 2026

This weeks video was a spicy one, it sounded like a lot has happened on the Deprecations RFC with it turning into a fight about honesty, Rob Landers opened Primary Constructors, and a user wrote a heartfelt "Disheartening Rant" about async - while the two flagship votes (Generics and __exists) both fell and the small, focused changes sailed through.

Len Woodward

YouTube Video youtube.com

Composer and Packagist Supply Chain Security in 2026 | Nils Adermann | PHPverse 2026

Recent attacks on PHP packages via compromised GitHub accounts have forced a hard look at supply chain security with Composer and Packagist. Nils will cover what Packagist has shipped in response: transparency log, malware detection, Composer 2.10 dependency policies, version immutability, and the work still ahead: mandatory MFA, organizational controls, immutable artifacts, and build provenance. Along the way, he’ll explore the infrastructure powering it all and the funding side of running critical open-source infrastructure – where the money comes from today, and what it takes to keep this kind of work going.

Nils Adermann

Tool/Package laravel-news.com

Clonio CLI: Clone Production Databases With Anonymized Data

Have you ever needed to grab a copy of your production database to fix a specific issue but are held back because of the PII data it holds. Well a new package that allows you to clone your production database and anonymise it at the same time.

Paul Redmond

Blog Post jonathanpurvis.co.uk

Laravel Live UK 2026

A comprehensive recap of Laravel Live UK 2026 from Jon Purvis, covering his experience attending the conference including speaker highlights on optimising workflows, value objects, and code quality tools. The article shares practical takeaways from Ryan Chandler, Harris Raftopoulos, and Yannick Chenot's talks, along with insights on travelling to and socialising at Laravel events.

Jon Purvis

Blog Post Package albertoarena.it

What if every Filament write went through an aggregate?

Alberto Arena introduces filament-event-sourcing, a plugin that seamlessly integrates Spatie's event sourcing package with Filament's admin panel. The plugin routes all create, edit, and delete actions through domain aggregates whilst preserving Filament's standard forms and workflows, eliminating the previous trade-offs between using event sourcing and maintaining Filament's built-in functionality.

Alberto Arena

Blog Post securinglaravel.com

Security Tip: Have You Heard Of Slopsquatting?

A security warning about slopsquatting, where attackers register package names that AI coding agents commonly hallucinate. Includes practical advice on protecting your Laravel applications from malicious packages by carefully managing composer installs when using AI development tools.

Stephen Rees-Carter

YouTube Video laravel-news.com

Ship AI with Laravel: Test Your AI System with Zero API Calls

In this episode we test the whole thing with Pest and zero API calls, using the SDK's faking system. It works exactly like faking mail, notifications, or queues in Laravel. You define the responses up front and assert that the right prompts went out.

Harris Raftopoulos

Blog Post wendelladriel.com

Everything About the Context Facade

A comprehensive deep dive into Laravel's Context facade, exploring how to use execution metadata to improve debugging across requests, queued jobs, and logs. The article covers the mental model, lifecycle integration, practical examples, and best practices for when and when not to use Context in Laravel applications.

Wendell Adriel

YouTube Video youtube.com

PHP Annotated

Brent shows us how to build an API with Tempest his PHP Framework.

Brent Roose

Also Notable

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Blog Post jump24.co.uk

Laravel Live UK 2026 Talks Recap

A comprehensive recap of Laravel Live UK 2026 covering talks on workflow optimisation, value objects, static analysis tooling, metaprogramming, and event-driven architecture. Features insights from speakers including Ryan Chandler, Harris Raftopoulos, Yannick Chenot, and others, with practical takeaways for Laravel developers.

Pete Wond

Blog Post

Blog Post juststeveking.com

Fibers Plus the Polling API: What Async PHP Actually Looks Like Now

Steve McDougall explores PHP's new Polling API and how it combines with Fibers to provide native asynchronous capabilities, demonstrating through practical examples how to build a minimal scheduler and explaining why this matters for the future of async PHP.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post