All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
A few weeks ago, the Filament team asked for your help testing a beta release for v4 and v5 that was intended to have a massive improvement in performance for complex Filament applications. Well, you all delivered, and thanks to your help, as of versions v4.12.6 and v5.7.6, Filament has released these improvements onto their stable release channels for everyone to use!
Laravel 13.24 can extract an image's dominant color as a hex string. Use it for placeholder backgrounds, letterbox fills, and readable overlay text.
Laravel Boost project rules store your app's conventions in .ai/rules, scoped by file globs, so an agent only reads the instructions that apply.
Laravel 13.24 adds dominant color detection and HEIC support to the image API, a modelKeys() query builder method, and an array_keys validation rule.
The official Laravel extension for Zed wires up Laravel LSP, giving you completions, hovers, diagnostics, and code actions in PHP and Blade files.
Announced in Taylor Otwell's Laracon US 2026 keynote, Laravel Head is a first-party package that manages your document head with a fluent API covering titles, Open Graph, robots directives, JSON-LD schemas, and performance hints across Blade, Livewire, and Inertia.
Run php artisan doctor to check your Laravel app's environment, config, database, queue, and storage, then let it auto-fix what it safely can.
JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.2 with a new Laravel tool window, a FileReference attribute for PHP, PHP 8.5 pipe operator support, and an agent skills manager.
Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The PHP testing framework adds test impact analysis, an agent plugin, evals, PHPStan, and Rector support.
Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK's new human-in-the-loop API pauses an agent before it runs a sensitive tool so a person can approve, reject, or edit the tool call first.