Sidecar Brings Statamic's Control Panel to Your Existing Markdown Sites
Sidecar lets you manage markdown documentation and static sites from LaraDocs, Jigsaw, VitePress, and HydePHP directly inside the Statamic Control Panel
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.
Collections chunkBy() and Storage Path Hardening in Laravel 13.30
Laravel 13.30 adds a chunkBy() collection method, confines Storage::path() to the disk root, and prints why a queue worker stopped in queue:work output.
Forte: Parse and Rewrite Laravel Blade Templates
Forte parses Blade templates into an AST you can query with XPath and rewrite safely, so codemods run on structure instead of regex.
MKSine: A Filament CMS with Plugins, Themes, and Blocks
MKSine adds a CMS layer to Filament 4 and 5: a visual page builder, installable plugins and themes, menus, hooks, and a media library.
Compoships: Eloquent Relationships on Multiple Columns
Compoships adds multi-column Eloquent relationships to Laravel, plus composite primary key handling for save, delete, and refresh.
Cancel In-Flight Form Submissions in Inertia.js v3.7
Inertia.js v3.7 adds cancelOnUnmount and a cancel method to the Form component, a polling state from usePoll, and once props that survive instant visits.
Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship with Vite+
Every Laravel starter kit now builds with Vite+, trading ESLint and Prettier for a single vp check across React, Vue, Svelte, and Livewire.
Pessimistic Locking in Laravel Eloquent with refreshForUpdate()
Laravel 13.27 adds refreshForUpdate() to Eloquent, reloading a model under lockForUpdate() so you can take a pessimistic lock without requerying by key.
Laravel Lock: Distributed Locks for Models and Routes
Laravel Lock scopes distributed locks to Eloquent models and routes in Laravel apps, with a fluent builder, middleware, and cache or database storage.
NativePHP v4: Build Native iOS and Android UI in Blade
NativePHP v4 renders Blade components as real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views with no web view. Here is what SuperNative changes, plus how to upgrade.