Mastering Laravel Testing: A Video Course on Laravel Tests
Mastering Laravel Testing is a video course from Joel Clermont on feature tests, mocks, policies, and form validation. Presale pricing ends November 20.
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.
NativePHP Mobile Security Advisories: Update to 4.6.1
NativePHP published seven security advisories for its mobile package, plus rebuilt PHP binaries for this week's PHP CVEs. Update to 4.6.1 or 3.3.11 and rebuild.
Volker Dusch on the PHP RCE Vulnerabilities and Disclosure
Volker Dusch of the PHP Foundation explains how the two critical PHP RCE vulnerabilities were found, fixed, and disclosed, plus the leak and the broken embargo.
Decide with Jev: Turn AI Answers into Decisions with PHP Rules
Jev can answer three questions about a draft, but the model should not decide what happens next. In episode 3 of Decide with Jev, we write a small PHP class that turns those answers into one label. When the answers are unclear, the draft goes to a person.
Laravel Read Replicas: Prevent Stale Reads After a Write
Laravel's PreventStaleDatabaseReads middleware keeps a user's reads on the write database after they save, so read replica lag doesn't show them old data.
PHP Security Releases Fix Two Critical RCE Vulnerabilities
PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Here's who's at risk and how to update.
Reset Sticky Database Connections Between Laravel Queue Jobs
Laravel 13.36 adds Worker::$flushStickyConnections so queue jobs go back to your read replicas after an earlier job writes to the database.
Skuul: Open-Source School Management Built on Laravel
Skuul 3.0 is an open-source school management app on Laravel 13 and Livewire 4, with per-campus roles, gradebooks, a family portal, and fee tracking.
Screenshot: Capture Images and PDFs with PHP and Laravel
Screenshot captures HTML, Blade views, and web pages as PNG, JPEG, or PDF files with Chrome, then saves them locally or to Laravel filesystem disks.
Prevent Stale Database Reads in Laravel 13.38
Laravel 13.38 adds PreventStaleDatabaseReads middleware and DB::usingWritePdo() so users see their own writes when you read from database replicas.