All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
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.
Laravel released a new first-party passkey authentication package with WebAuthn support for Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, and security keys.
Tailwind CSS v4.3.0 adds first-class scrollbar styling, a new @container-size utility, and expanded @variant syntax for more flexible custom CSS.
Laravel Addressable is a package that adds polymorphic address management to any Eloquent model, with built-in billing and shipping traits, a JSON meta column, and full geospatial support.