All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
The agent's been talking to us through JSON. In this episode we build a real-time chat widget with Livewire, Alpine, and server-sent events so responses stream in word by word as the agent generates them. Same agent, same tools, just live.
Laravel Reorderable adds drag-and-drop sorting to Eloquent models with Blade and Livewire UI components, grouped reordering, and an artisan generator to get set up quickly.
Laravel tutorial for full-text search with MongoDB Search: BM25 indexing, relevancy scoring, and field weighting to tune result quality.
Frontend Nation 2026 is back June 3-4 as a free, two-day online event covering web development and AI. Laravel is named in the framework lineup, with Pascal Baljet, Steve McDougall, and Vishal Rajpurohit among the speakers.
Laravel Google Sheets Database Driver let's you register Google Sheets as a database connection, so Eloquent and migrations can read and write directly to a spreadsheet.
Larapanda wraps the Lightpanda headless browser in a type-safe Laravel SDK with named instance profiles, CLI/Docker runtime resolution, and adapters for the Laravel AI SDK and MCP server.
Laravel 13.9.0 adds a method to generate HTML passwordrules attributes from your Password validation rule, Cloud queue metrics, optional disk storage for large SQS payloads, Concurrency run timeouts, PendingDispatch conditionable support, and more.
Laravel Live Denmark announced this week that David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails, will appear on stage at the 2026 event in Copenhagen.
Cadence is a Laravel package that attaches cron or RRULE schedules directly to your Eloquent models and fires events when they're due.
Laravel's AI SDK now lets you hand off agents as tools to other agents, turning the SDK into a proper orchestration layer.