All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Learn how to build a RAG-powered AI chat agent using Laravel 12, the Laravel AI SDK, Voyage AI embeddings, and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to enable semantic search over Airbnb listings.
PHP Debugger is a fork of Xdebug stripped down to step-debugging only, with benchmarks showing up to 97% less overhead when the extension is loaded but inactive.
Laravel Debugbar has just released v4.2.0, which adds a skill for Laravel Boost.
Laravel USPS is a full-featured Laravel package wrapping the USPS v3 REST/JSON API
Laravel 13.2.0 adds new symmetrical model attributes, enum support in queue attributes, releaseOnSignal for withoutOverlapping, and UniqueConstraintViolationException column and index details.
Inertia.js v3.0.0 is now released, shipping optimistic updates, a useHttp hook for non-navigation requests, SSR in Vite dev mode, and the removal of Axios in favor of a built-in HTTP client.
Laravel 13 ships with a first-party AI SDK. In the first episode of Ship AI with Laravel we install it, scaffold a support agent, and get it responding to customers in about 10 minutes. One agent class, a few attributes, and it talks back.
Laravel Boost v2.4.0 adds a security audit step to the add-skill command, a new laravel-best-practices skill, and an option to ignore skill updates.
OG Kit lets you define Open Graph image templates using standard HTML and CSS in your existing codebase, with a dedicated Laravel package available.
The Prism Workers AI package adds a Cloudflare Workers AI provider for Prism PHP and Laravel AI SDK, with support for text generation, embeddings, streaming, tool calling, and reasoning models.