Email Sending and Testing for Laravel in One Account
Send real mail from Laravel and catch test emails in one Maileroo account: SMTP sink, spam and dark-mode checks, and automated tests in CI.
Writing on software design, company building, and the aerospace industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
PIE 1.5 Changes PHP Extension Installs in CI
PIE 1.5 requires explicit extension package choices in CI. See how to update a Laravel project's Redis install and skip development extensions.
Decide with Jev: Tie Every AI Check to the Exact Draft
If a draft changes after an AI check, the old result can still look current. In episode 4 of Decide with Jev, we tie every check to the exact text it looked at. The editor's decision is stored on its own, right next to the model's answer.
Delete Expired Sessions in Laravel With a Scheduled Command
Schedule session:garbage-collect to delete expired Laravel database and file sessions, and turn off the session lottery that runs cleanup in web requests.
Pollora: Run WordPress Inside a Laravel Application
Pollora runs WordPress inside Laravel, with Route::wp() routing on conditional tags, Blade themes, and PHP attributes for post types and hooks.
Scheduled Session Garbage Collection in Laravel 13.39
Laravel 13.39 adds a session:garbage-collect command for scheduled session cleanup, keyless models with #[Table(key: false)], and durations on JobAttempted.
Deferred Schema Loading in Filament v5.8
Filament v5.8 adds deferLoading() for sections, tabs, wizards, and repeater items, plus session-persisted table grouping and lifecycle hooks in traits.
Mastering Laravel Testing: A Video Course on Laravel Tests
Mastering Laravel Testing is a video course from Joel Clermont on feature tests, mocks, policies, and form validation. Presale pricing ends November 20.
Sloppy: Static Analysis for AI-Written PHP
Sloppy checks AI-written PHP for swallowed exceptions, query loops, and unfinished code, with coding-agent hooks and reviews focused on new findings.
NativePHP Mobile Security Advisories: Update to 4.6.1
NativePHP published seven security advisories for its mobile package, plus rebuilt PHP binaries for this week's PHP CVEs. Update to 4.6.1 or 3.3.11 and rebuild.