All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Your support agent can talk, but it responds in prose. You can't route a ticket or track sentiment from a paragraph. In this episode we build a TicketClassifier that returns structured JSON with category, priority, sentiment, and a summary. Clean data from messy customer messages.
Malicious versions of the axios HTTP client were published to npm on March 31, 2026, deploying a cross-platform remote access trojan via a fake dependency.
PHPantom is a PHP Language Server Protocol implementation written in Rust that starts in under a second and uses 59 MB of RAM, with support for generics, PHPStan annotations, and Laravel Eloquent.
Learn how to build a RAG-powered AI chat agent using Laravel 12, the Laravel AI SDK, Voyage AI embeddings, and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to enable semantic search over Airbnb listings.
PHP Debugger is a fork of Xdebug stripped down to step-debugging only, with benchmarks showing up to 97% less overhead when the extension is loaded but inactive.
Laravel Debugbar has just released v4.2.0, which adds a skill for Laravel Boost.
Laravel USPS is a full-featured Laravel package wrapping the USPS v3 REST/JSON API
Laravel 13.2.0 adds new symmetrical model attributes, enum support in queue attributes, releaseOnSignal for withoutOverlapping, and UniqueConstraintViolationException column and index details.
Inertia.js v3.0.0 is now released, shipping optimistic updates, a useHttp hook for non-navigation requests, SSR in Vite dev mode, and the removal of Axios in favor of a built-in HTTP client.
Laravel 13 ships with a first-party AI SDK. In the first episode of Ship AI with Laravel we install it, scaffold a support agent, and get it responding to customers in about 10 minutes. One agent class, a few attributes, and it talks back.