Helge has been busy with a full write up on how he built his tower defense game over on https://artisandefense.dev/
Matt Stauffer kicks off Season 8 of The Laravel Podcast with longtime friend Eric Barnes, creator of Laravel News, in a wide-ranging conversation that wanders well beyond code.
An indepth look at the origins and evolution of PEAR, PHP's pioneering package manager that shaped how developers shared code before Composer arrived, covering its development from 1999 through to its official integration with PHP 4.3.0 in 2002.
Matt Stauffer announces the launch of PHP News, a new comprehensive news site covering the PHP ecosystem created in partnership with Eric Barnes, featuring daily news, RFC updates, releases, and a weekly newsletter to improve PHP's public representation and community engagement.
An insight into how The PHP Foundation's security team processes vulnerability reports for PHP, addressing the importance of security maintenance and the resources required to keep PHP secure across the web.
Discover how Laravel Wayfinder generates type-safe TypeScript functions for your routes, eliminating hardcoded URLs and catching routing errors at compile time rather than in production. Learn how Spatie uses this powerful package to keep their Laravel and React codebases in perfect sync.
This lesson explores the pitfalls of premature abstraction in PHP, explaining how extracting shared code too early can create unmaintainable, inflexible code that becomes increasingly difficult to modify as dependencies grow. Through practical examples, it demonstrates why duplication is often cheaper than wrong abstractions and how to recognise when abstraction is truly warranted.
Pascal Baljet has been busy bringing some new features to Inertia v3. From pausing polling in background tabs to some back button fixes thanks to Mohammed Sohail. It's great to see this package getting updates like this as its one of our favourites at Jump24
Discover how Laravel Cloud now integrates seamlessly with Resend for email, allowing you to connect your account once and attach email as a resource to any environment without managing API keys manually.
Explore how Rust and Go are influencing the PHP ecosystem through faster static analysers like Mago, and discover how PHP developers can leverage these languages without needing deep expertise through agentic development.
Learn how to build a Laravel service using OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) to calculate accurate road distances and travel times between locations, complete with caching and fallback strategies for real-world store locator features.
Dan Leech shares his journey learning Go after 14 years as a PHP developer, mapping familiar PHP concepts to Go and discussing the cultural differences between the two languages.