Artisan Weekly Edition 59

Edition №59

Published

Week ending November 20, 2025

Items

8 featured · 0 notable

Editor's
Note

It's Friday once again! Firstly let me apologise about the sound on the video I made some changes to my setup this week and I haven't been able to find and fix the hissing issue as of yet. Another week has flown by here at Jump24 and us lucky PHP developers have had the joys of PHP8.5 being released on Thursday, so lets get down to the top ten Laravel and PHP things I've found this week.

By
Daniel Newns

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PHP Alive and Kicking: Episode 14 - Dan Newns

we have Christopher Miller, Mike Page and you guessed it Me with one of the latest PHP Alive and Kicking Podcasts. I really enjoyed taking part in this podcast they've had some great guests so far so was a real honour to be invited on - 📽️ -

Christopher Miller

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Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith

Luke Kuzmish with "Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith" - this post goes into detail about a bottleneck Luke found in the test suite at work which then lead him to create a PR into the framework that was merged and recently released adding 2 new traits to the test suite to help us speed up our tests suites -

Luke Kuzmish

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Edition №59

Top 10 Links

PHP Alive and Kicking: Episode 14 - Dan Newns

Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith

Laravel Middleware Priority

New and noteworthy: PHPStan and PHPUnit integration

Livewire vs React/Vue in Laravel: Do you need the extra complexity?

How to use Flexible Caching in Laravel

Modern PHP Development

Immutable and Mutable Dates in PHP