All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Laravel Legacy Bridge reads a legacy PHP session cookie, decodes the payload, and logs the matching user into Laravel, so users mid-migration don't hit a second login prompt.
Laravel 13.20.0 introduces an Image facade for resizing, converting, and storing images, along with a WithoutMiddleware controller attribute, a separate Redis session prefix, and quiet bulk increment methods on Eloquent.
A Laravel package that tracks and enforces cumulative usage limits across calendar periods, with a fluent API, an Eloquent trait, route middleware, and cache or database storage.
Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes your Laravel projects locally and opens any of them from a single keyboard shortcut.
A Laravel package that adds magic link and one-time code authentication, with a two-factor handoff to Fortify and links that email scanners can't burn.
Introducing a built-in AI Review of your Shift. Providing a second pass on your upgrade, guided by Shift's detailed comments combined with AI's context.
Laravel 13.19.0 adds an Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing helpers for the HTTP QUERY verb, plus a reduceInto collection method, a counted string helper, and bulk SQS job dispatching.
First I socially engineer our own support agent into leaking its full system prompt and another customer's data. Then we lock it down with four layers of defense: a hardened prompt, a local LLM guard running on Ollama, tool-level authorization, and output filtering. The finale of Ship AI with Laravel.
Intercept is a set of drop-in middleware for the Laravel AI SDK that filters prompts for injection attempts and PII before they reach a provider.
Laravel MPP is middleware from Square1 that gates routes behind the Machine Payments Protocol, returning a 402 challenge that AI agents pay with Stripe Shared Payment Tokens or Tempo pathUSD and then retry.