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A practical look at the GitHub Action we use to let Claude review Flare docs every Monday. It checks recent changes, updates the docs where needed, and opens a draft PR while staying within tight boundaries.

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A nice profile of Jason McCreary and how Laravel Shift grew into a one-person business doing about $50K MRR. The most interesting bit is how raising prices, slowly and deliberately, turned it from a side project into a real business.

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Rias Van der Veken shows how to make Laravel Boost work nicely in package development by pairing it with Orchestra Testbench. The article covers a few smart tweaks so Boost reads and writes in the package root, works through a custom artisan file, and stays tailored for package workflows instead of full Laravel apps.

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This post explains why Laravel queue workers and Horizon supervisors each keep their own compiled copy of your app in memory, and how that adds up fast on smaller servers. It also introduces queue-prefork, a package that shares opcache across forked workers and dramatically cuts memory usage without changing job throughput.

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Stan Daniels shares a practical checklist for tuning Laravel Horizon, from aligning timeouts and retry_after values to verifying deploy hooks and measuring real queue behavior before adding workers. It is a good reminder that queue performance issues often come down to configuration clarity and instrumentation, not just scaling up blindly.

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Ding is a toast notification library with playful spring physics, built to work with React, Svelte, or plain DOM. The site includes interactive demos for layout, sounds, themes, and different toast behaviors.

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Amit Merchant argues that skills, prompts, plugins, and MCP servers are becoming dependencies of AI agents, and should be versioned and managed like application code. He also highlights APM as a way to install reproducible agent tooling, with Dependabot now able to keep those dependencies up to date.

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This tutorial shows how to build a PHP CLI tool that returns JSON, package it for Composer, and run it from anywhere with CPX. It also explains why CPX is a nicer alternative to globally installed Composer tools, thanks to isolated dependencies and automatic updates.

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Using Stripe data across about 181,000 subscription businesses, Mack Grenfell argues the SaaS slowdown became visible in October, when median revenue growth turned negative across most peer groups. He suggests the bigger problem is fewer new signups, likely driven by AI-fueled competition rather than customer churn.

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Felix Rieseberg argues that AI is changing what makes junior engineers valuable. He makes the case that fresh perspective, ambition, and quick prototypes can beat tenure when execution is cheap.

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Nick Bevers argues that AI is pushing developers toward shallow, uncritical building, and that many teams are trusting generated code far too blindly. It's a thoughtful take on keeping a mental model of your codebase and using AI as a tool instead of handing over the craft.

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Composer 2.11 adds a cooldown dependency policy that withholds newly published package versions for a configurable period. The release also includes several security fixes and faster dependency resolution.

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Jason McCreary explains how he went from using AI for tedious snippets to letting agents handle nearly all coding, testing, and review work. It is a clear account of the guardrails, workflow shifts, and mindset changes that got him there.

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Below MySQL 8.0.1, or on a server Laravel misreads, workers reserve jobs with a plain FOR UPDATE and can deadlock on the DELETE. One tinker line shows which lock yours use.

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Oh Dear shares hard numbers on how the recent critical PHP vulnerabilities rippled through the ecosystem, with site outages peaking at 18.8 percent and down alerts rising to 25 times the normal level. It is a useful, data-backed snapshot of a chaotic day in PHP land from a monitoring service's point of view.

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How a slow dependency becomes an outage, and how deadlines, concurrency limits, retry budgets, and jitter protect useful work. A practical deep dive with PHP examples and a controlled overload test design.

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Ryan Chandler makes a strong case for keeping PR descriptions human-written, even when agents handle most of the implementation. The piece focuses on ownership, review context, and why a concise explanation from the person driving the change is more useful than a long AI-generated summary.

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A clear overview of PHP 8.6's readonly property defaults RFC, why the old restriction existed, and why interface properties made it worth revisiting. It also covers the practical edge cases, so you know where the new syntax helps and where it still does not.

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A clear walkthrough of Laravel's Context feature and how it lets execution-scoped information travel through your app. It also explains why that matters for logging, queued jobs, and keeping trace data available without threading it through every method call.

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