All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
If you keep up with Filament news, you've likely heard that there are now over 1,000 community plugins in the Filament plugins directory. So with these 1,000 plugins and growing, it's time to talk about how Filament handles plugin security and what have implemented to help you make informed decisions about which plugins to install!
LayaPHP sends text to a self-hosted model and returns typed classifications with confidence values for PHP and Laravel applications.
Inertia.js v3.8 adds a WhenMounted component for browser-only code under SSR, BigInt support for large integer props, Form callback fixes, and more.
Postcodes for Laravel adds typed GB postcode lookups, validation, geography data, distance searches, and test fakes through the GB Postcodes API.
Laravel 14 adds a defaults() method to Eloquent models, so default attribute values can use config, feature flags, and dates instead of constant expressions.
Security advisories for the Laravel AI SDK and Laravel MCP fix an SSRF bug and an OAuth redirect issue. Here are the affected versions and how to update.
Laravel 13.34 counts worker crashes toward maxExceptions, notifies interruptible jobs before a timeout, adds job durations to JobProcessed, and more.
Mailbox for Laravel captures outgoing mail in a local dashboard and lets you test rendered HTML, recipients, and attachments with fluent assertions.
How Laravel releases work: one major version a year, weekly minor releases, 18 months of bug fixes, and support dates for Laravel 10 through 14.
Elastic Bridge brings fluent Elasticsearch and OpenSearch queries to Laravel, with model-style documents, aggregations, pagination, and testing fakes.