AI Review for Laravel Upgrades
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.
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.
HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19
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.
Ship AI with Laravel: I Tricked My Own AI Into Leaking Everything
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: Middleware Guardrails for Laravel AI Agents
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: Charge AI Agents for API Access with 402 Payment Required
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.
What's missing from your PHP development environment
DDLess is free for local debugging. The desktop app gives you step debugging, the Task Runner, Method Execution, and the Playground at no cost. A Pro plan adds conditional breakpoints, SSH debugging, and a PHPStorm plugin.
EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS
EnvKit is a free desktop app that bundles nginx or Apache, multiple PHP versions, databases, and trusted .test HTTPS into one control panel.
Commune: A Private Community for Founders and Builders
Commune is a gamified social platform for builders to share what they’re working on, connect with other founders, and launch their projects.
Laravel AI Tasks: An AI Orchestration Package for Queues, Logging, and Cost Control
Laravel AI Tasks is a package by fomvasss that wraps the Laravel AI SDK with reusable task classes, queued and streamed execution, cost tracking, and a built-in dashboard.
A Copy/Paste Detector CLI for PHP 8.5+
phpcpd-next is a maintained, dependency-free successor to Sebastian Bergmann's phpcpd that finds duplicated PHP code, including reordered and gapped clones.