All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Laravel 13.12.0 adds custom attributes to scheduled events, a ShouldBeDiscovered interface for listeners, opt-out worker restart on lost connection, SQLite URI-based connections, and several other improvements.
The PHP Foundation has received a grant from Alpha-Omega to start a dedicated Ecosystem Security Team, with Volker Dusch leading the effort as the AI Security Engineer in Residence.
Laravel Entitlements is a package for managing subscription plans, license issuance, and consumption tracking in Laravel SaaS applications.
Moat is a new tool from Nuno Maduro that reviews the security posture of a GitHub user, organization, or repository and reports settings that fall short of common recommendations.
Laravel Fluent Validation provides a fluent, type-safe API for building validation rules, replacing traditional string-based syntax with IDE-friendly methods.
Laravel Paper is an Eloquent driver that allows you to use Markdown and JSON files as data sources while maintaining the familiar Eloquent query API.
Laravel Toggle is a lightweight feature flag package for Laravel that controls global on/off switches through environment variables, the database, or both.
PhpStorm just shipped a new Laravel tool window that lets you manage and troubleshoot Laravel Cloud deployments without leaving the IDE.
Piper is a Spatie package that ports Laravel's collection and string methods to standalone functions built for PHP 8.5's pipe operator.
Laravel 13.10.0 adds a filesystem-backed storage cache store, a --stop-when-empty-for queue worker option, a WorkerIdle event, schedule group lifecycle callbacks, Schema::hasForeignKey(), and more.