Week ending December 26, 2025
It's Friday and this is the last top ten of the year! I've been looking back and this is my 80th top ten in a row! Man I've done a lot of reading and watching!" "" "I've had a lot of fun putting these together and I'm really looking forward to what the Laravel and PHP community put out next year, so with that in mind lets kick off the last top ten of the year!
and it was the last piece of the Advent from Laravel is Taylor Otwell with "2025 and beyond" - Taylor reflects on what the Laravel team have achieved in 2025 and his vision for 2026 and a call to all Laravel developers out there to "Ship Something" - 📽️ -
it's Maxim Fomichev with "Simulating Сoncurrent Requests: How We Achieved High-Performance HTTP in PHP Without Threads" Max is an Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat. In this post Max goes through how the Manychat team overcame a number of challenges that im sure we've all come across with handling high-concurrency -
by Nico Devs
it's Nico Devs over on the Tighten blog with "Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas" - We see AI everywhere these days, but the real burning question is can AI play Pictionary???? Nico asks and answers this question in this post -