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Artisan Weekly Edition 99!

Edition №99

Published

Week ending August 28, 2026

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10 featured · 6 notable

● Top 10 Video companion
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Top 10 Links

Featured · Edition 99

Blog Post thephp.foundation

So You Received a Security Report. Now What?

You've been maintaining a PHP package or project for a while now, and you suddenly get a security vulnerability report sent to you. What do you need to do? Sebastian from the PHP Foundation has put together this helpful guide on what you should do next.

Sebastian Bergmann

Blog Post laravel.com

We built laracon.us/photos. We're not developers.

A compelling story about how Laravel's field marketers built a photo-sharing application for Laracon US using Claude AI and Laravel, demonstrating that you don't need to be a developer to create real solutions with the right tools and framework structure.

Samantha Sappenfield

Blog Post richdynamix.com

PHPStan Custom Rule: Enforce Laravel Conventions

Static analysis is such an important part of your workflow running tools like PHPStan or Psalm is important to keep the quality of your codebase at a high level. If you've been using PHPStan you would have come across it's rules, but have you ever wondered how to create your own rules for PHPStan, well in this post Steven shows us how to by first picking a convention that is worth automating and taking it from there.

Steven Richardson

YouTube Video youtube.com

Why You'll Use Generics Whether You Want To or Not

Generics we all want it but will we use it if it comes to PHP, Larry believes up to 90% of us will be dealing with generics within two years. what do you think?

Harris Raftopoulos · Larry Garfield

Blog Post wendelladriel.com

Modular Monoliths: Creating Real Boundaries Before Reaching for Microservices

Wendell guides us through how to structure your Laravel application as modular monoliths with clear business boundaries, explicit APIs, and owned data - avoiding the pitfalls of both tangled monoliths and premature microservice migration.

Wendell Adriel

Blog Post codingwisely.com

How I Migrated Taskavel from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud

A practical walkthrough of migrating a Laravel application from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud, covering the key steps and considerations for a smooth transition between hosting platforms.

Vladimir Nikolic

Blog Post Testing laravelmagazine.com

Testing Time-Dependent Code with Carbon::setTestNow(), travel(), and freezeTime()

A guide to mastering Laravel's time-travel testing utilities for handling time-dependent code, covering travelTo(), travel(), freezeTime(), and best practices for reliable time-based assertions without sleep() calls.

Eric Van Johnson

Blog Post danielpetrica.com

I migrated 100k pages to the new Laravel Head package for SEO

For eight months, every <head> tag on my 104k page Laravel directory ran through a homegrown Blade component. At the start of August I replaced all of it with the new laravel/head package. Here's the full migration, and how I verified Google never noticed

Daniel Petrica

YouTube Video youtube.com

I Tried NEW Debug Bar for Laravel: Modern UI and AI Agentic Future

The Laravel Debug bar has been a staple in the Laravel world for a longtime well now we have a new package and Povilas talks us through it.

Povilas Korop

Blog Post phpunit.expert

Four Out of Five

Sebastian Bergmann examines how modern PHP (8.5 and 8.6) measures up against consensus concepts in modern language design, exploring lexically scoped variables, closures, objects, pattern matching, and the language's extensibility for domain-specific needs.

Sebastian Bergmann

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YouTube Video youtube.com

Introducing Scout - the AI assistant for content editors in Statamic.

Michael introduces us to Scout - the AI assistant for content editors. Just bring your own API key, and you can have the AI build your content into drafts or revisions

Michael LaRoy

YouTube Video

Blog Post juststeveking.com

Why Is This Hard To Change?

A comprehensive series exploring common architectural challenges in Laravel codebases, from coupling and test suite performance to model responsibilities and code organisation. This practical guide helps developers identify and address the real issues behind difficult-to-change code.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post

Blog Post apnahive.com

Vue Watchers Explained Properly: When to Use watch, watchEffect, and When You Should Use Neither

A comprehensive guide to Vue's reactivity watchers covering watch, watchEffect, and computed properties, with real-world examples of race conditions, anti-patterns, and practical guidance on when to use each tool versus when they're the wrong choice entirely.

Sadique Ali

Blog Post

Blog Post youtube.com

Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Vibes vs. Agents: A World Cup Betting Side Project Story

Christoph Rumpel

Blog Post

YouTube Video youtube.com

Better Laravel Structure with PEST Architecture Tests

Povilas Korop

YouTube Video

Blog Post richdynamix.com

Livewire 4 Third Party JavaScript Integration: The Complete Guide

A comprehensive guide to integrating third-party JavaScript libraries with Livewire 4 components, exploring the morph mechanism and providing practical solutions using wire:ignore, wire:ref, and other tools through a real-world campaign editor example.

Steven Richardson

Blog Post