Artisan Weekly Edition 71

Edition №71

Published

Week ending February 6, 2026

Items

10 featured · 3 notable

● Top 10 Video companion
on YouTube

Editor's
Note

This week has been another great one! with Laracon India taking place over the weekend the FOMO was real we're now counting down the weeks to Laracon EU, Laravel Manchester and of course the next Laravel London, so lets dive into this weeks top ten

By
Daniel Newns

Top 10 Links

Featured · Edition 71

Blog Post juststeveking.com

Recalibrated

Steve McDougall shares a deeply personal story about his military service as a Route Clearance specialist in Afghanistan, drawing powerful parallels between high-stakes bomb disposal work and software development. A moving reflection on finding human connection in conflict zones and the lasting impact of service.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post trovster.com

Laravel Maintenance Mode Custom View AND JSON

Trevor Morris shows us how to create custom maintenance mode pages in Laravel that properly handle both HTML and JSON responses for web browsers and APIs. The tutorial shows how to solve content negotiation issues by customising the exception handler instead of using the --render flag.

Trevor Morris

X Post x.com

Generating PDFs in Laravel Cloud with Cloudflare.

Have you been wondering how you might go about generating PDFs in your applications that are hosted on Laravel Cloud. I know we have as its something we have to do in a number of our applications, we typically do this with tools like DOMPDF which of course has it's own dependencies that you might not be able to install on your cloud servers. Dries had the same thought and figured out a way to do this with Cloudflare, read his X thread to see how he achieved this.

Dries Vints

Blog Post securinglaravel.com

Security Tip: Update your packages! (Yes, this again!)

When Stephen Rees-Carter tells you to update your packages you update your packages! This timely security reminder highlighting recent vulnerabilities in Livewire v3 and PsySH that are being actively exploited in the wild. The post emphasises the critical importance of keeping Laravel packages updated to protect against known security threats.

Stephen Rees-Carter

Course laracasts.com

Build Native Apps with PHP

Simon Hamp guides you through building Native Apps with PHP. In this series you will learn to build native mobile and desktop applications using PHP through this comprehensive Laracasts series. Perfect for Laravel developers wanting to expand beyond web development into native app creation.

Simon Hamp

Blog Post laravel-news.com

Laravel Announces Official AI SDK for Building AI-Powered Apps

It's here, we've been hearing all about it. It was demoed at Laracon India and now we get to play with it. Welcome to the Laravel AI SDK! you can now install and start to play with it and build AI applications. Taylor and Josh are doing a stream on the 9th of February where they will build and ship something amazing with it.

Eric Barnes

YouTube Video youtube.com

Introducing the OpenClaw VPS: Your AI Agent Deserves Its Own Server on Forge

You've seen it everywhere on X, it's been renamed twice and is now called OpenClaw. Christoph Rumpel talks us through setting up OpenClaw on the new Laravel forge OpenClaw VPS servers.

Christoph Rumpel

Blog Post medium.com

Getting to Know @island in Livewire 4: The Secret to Making Your Laravel Apps Blazing Fast

We've all been there I'm sure, We've built our Livewire application and things are looking great, then we notice when we interact with one of the buttons it triggers a full page re-render NOOOO!!! Well @island are here to help stop this from happening.

Developer Awam

Blog Post masteringlaravel.io

Be careful with ddRawSql

A helpful reminder about Laravel's ddRawSql() debugging method and important security considerations. While great for development debugging, the output uses string interpolation rather than prepared statements, so it shouldn't be assumed to be injection-safe or used for building production queries.

Joel Clermont

Blog Post laravel-news.com

Fuse for Laravel: A Circuit Breaker Package for Queue Jobs

Harris recently released his latest package Fuse. It's a Circuit breaker package for your queued jobs. Have you ever had an issue in your job where you might be using an external service and it goes down during the job, your queue works dont know, they keep making requests, they keep re-trying and waiting again. This could drastically slowdown and freeze your system. Fuse stops this through allowing you to set a configurable number of failures which once reached opens the circuit and stops the remaining jobs making those API calls.

Harris Raftopoulos

Also Notable

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Blog Post sevalla.com

Building a Claude Code skill

A comprehensive guide to creating portable instruction manuals for Claude AI that teach domain-specific approaches, with a detailed walkthrough of building a production-grade Laravel API skill. Learn how to structure skills using progressive disclosure, make opinionated architectural decisions, and create reusable templates that others can contribute to and improve.

Steve McDougall

Blog Post

Blog Post nativephp.com

NativePHP for Mobile is Now Free

NativePHP announces that their core framework and essential plugins for building native iOS and Android apps with Laravel are now completely free starting with v3. The update introduces a new modular plugin system that makes native development more extensible while keeping apps slim and secure.

Simon Hamp

Blog Post

X Post x.com

How Hackers Turned My Server Into a Crypto Mining Farm (And How We Caught Them)

In this X Post Victor talks us through how he found out his server was hacked, how he found the root cause and how he was impacted by the Livewire CVE and why its super important to keep your packages up to date!

Eze Victor Uchechukwu

X Post