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Detecting spam and auto-replies with Jev and the Laravel AI SDK

Explore how to use Jev and the Laravel AI SDK to detect spam and auto-replies in your helpdesk application. This post demonstrates System One models, which provide calibrated probabilities for classification tasks without generating text, making them perfect for spam detection workflows.

Continuing to Move PHP Open Source Forward

JetBrains announces their latest round of open-source sponsorships for PHP projects, including PHPUnit, Composer, and Larabelles, demonstrating their commitment to supporting the PHP community's most impactful initiatives.

Laravel Queues: 11 Must-Know Advanced Tips

Instrumenting Guzzle in Laravel: Logs and Metrics

A comprehensive guide to instrumenting Guzzle HTTP requests in Laravel applications with logging and metrics, covering middleware registration, transfer tracking, and handling edge cases like timeouts and SDKs with custom clients.

Why chunking can skip half your rows

An in-depth explanation of a critical bug in Laravel's chunk() method where updating rows during iteration can cause some records to be skipped, with interactive examples demonstrating how chunkById() provides a safer alternative.

Your Laravel Agent Is Not Running the Model You Pinned

A deep dive into Laravel AI model routing gotchas, exploring how model configuration attributes and provider failover strategies can silently override your specified models, with practical solutions to ensure the correct model is actually used in your agent invocations.

Keeping pinned GitHub Actions up to date

Learn how to keep your pinned GitHub Actions up to date using Dependabot with a practical configuration strategy that balances security and maintenance. This guide walks through grouping updates by publisher and setting appropriate cooldown periods to manage supply chain risks effectively.

PHP, on a Whim #2: Stop Calling Everything an Array

A thoughtful exploration of PHP's versatile but ambiguous array data structure, examining how its dual nature as both list and dictionary creates subtle bugs in APIs and JSON serialisation, with practical examples of the challenges developers face.

Inside the Laravel 13 Scheduler: From Cron Entry to Event Execution

A deep dive into Laravel 13's scheduler internals, exploring how the framework executes scheduled tasks from cron entry through event dispatching and execution within the application.

Difflock: Lint Laravel Migrations and Diff Your Schema

Difflock is a Laravel package from Rati Rukhadze for reviewing migrations against the database they will change. It reads migration source without loading or executing it, then uses the live schema and table-size metadata to flag changes that deserve a closer look before deployment.