Flock: A Free, Native Herd Alternative for Laravel
Flock is a free, open source local dev app for Laravel that runs PHP, Node, databases, mail, and HTTPS natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Slow Job Alerts and Replica Commit IDs in Laravel 13.40
Laravel 13.40 adds callbacks for slow queue jobs and scheduled tasks, commit IDs to check read replica lag, and insertBefore() and insertAfter() for middleware.
Cooldown Dependency Policy now in Composer 2.11
Composer 2.11 can hold back newly published package versions for a set period before installing them. It also ships six security fixes and faster resolution.
Live Props for Real-Time Updates in Inertia.js v3.11
Inertia.js v3.11 adds live props, which reload a page prop when a broadcast event arrives, with Laravel Echo, Reverb, Pusher, and Action Cable transports.
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.
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.