PHP News: A New Site for PHP Releases, RFCs, and Packages
PHP News is a new site from Eric Barnes and Matt Stauffer covering PHP core, RFCs, releases, packages, and events, plus a free weekly PHP newsletter.
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.
Pause Polling in Background Tabs in Inertia.js v3.9
Inertia.js v3.9 adds a background option to pause polling in hidden tabs, a navigate event type for history restores, and fixes for back navigation.
Look What You Helped Me Build
Puzzle Party isn't a game. It's a place to play the games you're already playing --- Wordle, Connections, Strands, crosswords, and other daily
BashBox: A Sandboxed Bash Interpreter for AI Agents in PHP
BashBox runs AI-generated bash scripts in pure PHP, with a virtual filesystem, execution limits, and opt-in network access. No exec or proc_open calls.
Running Laravel's Scheduler on Multiple Servers
Laravel 13.35 adds Schedule::alwaysOnOneServer() to run every task once across servers, and a way for long scheduled commands to stop during a deploy.
Laravel Fake Assertions Now Accept Property Arrays
Laravel 13.35 lets assertPushed(), assertDispatched(), and assertSentTo() take an array of expected properties in place of a callback.
Route::query() and Model defaults() in Laravel 13.35
Laravel 13.35 adds Route::query(), an opt-in defaults() method for models, property arrays in fake assertions, percentage worker memory limits, and more.
Laravel AI SDK 1.1 Adds Agent Skills and Cohere Chat
Laravel AI SDK 1.1 adds Agent Skills support, Cohere text generation, approval for built-in tools, and failover that skips provider tools a provider lacks.
VMPal: Give Your AI Agent a Whole Computer
VMPal gives your AI agent its own macOS, Windows, or Linux VM on Apple silicon, so Claude Code or Codex can work without you approving every prompt.
Synapse: A Dev Dashboard for Laravel AI SDK Agents
Synapse from Redberry lists your Laravel AI SDK agents, lets you chat with them in the browser, and shows their tool calls and token usage.