Eric and Harris talk to Kasper who runs Laravel Live Denmark. Casper talks about his programming journey, how he started Laravel Live Denmark as well as much more.
A security tip exploring how to detect and block suspicious bot activity in Laravel applications by monitoring Livewire exceptions, with recommendations for enhancing IP-based banning strategies and implementing alerting systems.
This Laracon Archive is a neat little project made by Prince John Santillan that is a historical record of all Laracon talks.
Hands up if you let your agents write your PR descriptions. I know I'm guilty of this sometimes. Ryan puts the case forward of why we as developers should still write our own PR descriptions, read on to find out his thoughts on why we should do them.
Discover how Laravel's rescue() helper provides elegant one-line error handling for optional operations that might fail, such as third-party API calls, allowing you to log issues and return sensible defaults without cluttering your code with try-catch blocks.
Ossuma walks us through a number of common Laravel Queue Gotchas, including issues with retryUntil() timing and Horizon supervisor configuration defaults. Learn from real-world mistakes to avoid debugging headaches in your queue implementation.
You know the feeling you've written some lovely looking code adding something taking something away and then you go run your static analysis and things just go from green to red. Well Ashley recently started to make changes to his Find a PR application and came across this exact problem. Read on to find out how Ashley solved it
A new podcast collaboration between PHP Architect and The PHP Foundation featuring live episodes and community discussions, with episodes available on all major podcast platforms and YouTube.
Brent explores the practical limitations of TypePHP, questioning whether a compiled PHP variant that lacks ecosystem compatibility truly addresses real developer needs, and argues that the incompatibility with existing frameworks and libraries makes it an impractical choice for production environments.
The PHP Foundation announces Brent Roose's appointment to its Board of Directors, joining as the JetBrains Platinum Sponsor representative, whilst honouring Roman Pronskiy's significant contributions as a founding member and former Executive Director.
A guide to optimising Laravel Eloquent query performance through evidence-based design patterns, covering N+1 problems, eager loading strategies, indexing, and database query analysis with practical examples.
A PHP RFC went to a vote on Friday and its author pulled it back by Sunday night, over a no vote from the person who wrote the policy it broke - which leaves a question every regex you've ever written has an opinion on: when a pattern fails, is that your bug, or something you catch? Plus Gina P. Banyard asking the list to declare a whole class of engine crashes undefined behaviour, the PEAR maintainer nobody could reach for months finally answering, and last week's top story closing itself with a documentation PR instead of an RFC. Eleven stories from September 2 – 9, 2026, and for the fourth week running nothing is in the voting phase.
A comprehensive review of PHPVerse 2026 conference talks exploring PHP's 31-year journey, the PHP Foundation's governance initiatives, and supply chain security challenges in the modern PHP ecosystem. Perfect for developers keen to understand the current state and future direction of PHP development.
An in-depth exploration of when to use Laravel's config() versus environment variables, examining the fundamental limitation of configuration files and establishing a decision framework for determining which values belong in each location.
A thoughtful deep dive into how static analysers like PHPStan can sometimes enforce overly rigid theoretical constraints that actually degrade code quality, using practical PHP examples to illustrate when dogmatic adherence to type variance rules misses the real-world safety of your implementation.
A practical guide to measuring PHP memory usage with a simple one-liner command, showing how to use the system's /usr/bin/time utility to capture peak RSS without code changes or deployment.