Event sourcing with a little help from AI
Event sourcing with a little help from AI
A Claude Code skill that helps you design and generate event-sourced domain code for Laravel using spatie/laravel-event-sourcing Read more
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Splitting Laravel Boost guidelines across multiple files
Splitting Laravel Boost guidelines across multiple files
Laravel Boost only reads a single core.blade.php per package, so extra sibling files get silently dropped. Here is the minimal pattern for splitting your guidelines into organized partials using a Blade view namespace. Read more
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★ Searching multiple columns with one URL parameter in laravel-query-builder
★ Searching multiple columns with one URL parameter in laravel-query-builder
We just released v7.3.0 of laravel-query-builder, which adds a new way to group multiple filters under a single URL parameter. Before getting into the new feature, let me show you how the basics work, so the new bit makes sense in context. The basics Here's a typical setup in a controller: use Spatie\QueryBuilder\AllowedFilter; use Spatie\QueryBuilder\QueryBuilder; $users = QueryBuilder::for(User::class) ->allowedFilters( AllowedFilter::partial('name'), AllowedFilter::exact('status'), )…
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On pricing
On pricing
Seth Godin shares a compact set of pricing truths about value, story, and perception. It is especially good on why the right answer to "that's too expensive" is often a better story, not a lower price. Read more
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RBAC in Laravel: A Practical Deep Dive
RBAC in Laravel: A Practical Deep Dive
A deep dive into Role-Based Access Control, from the theory behind roles and permissions to a practical, team-aware Laravel implementation without external packages. Read more
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Laravel Route Binding Behind the Curtains
Laravel Route Binding Behind the Curtains
A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs. Read more
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★ Announcing laravel-sluggable v4 with self-healing URLs
★ Announcing laravel-sluggable v4 with self-healing URLs
The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for any Eloquent model when you save it, derived from a title or another text field, and most of the time you don't have to think about it. We just released v4, which adds a few things worth talking about. Let me walk you through them. Generating slugs…
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How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities using Oh Dear
How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities using Oh Dear
This practical guide shows how to use spatie/laravel-health together with Oh Dear to detect vulnerable Composer dependencies in production and get alerted quickly. It also shows how adding composer audit in CI gives you an extra early warning layer. Read more
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Lock a shared test database for parallel test processes
Lock a shared test database for parallel test processes
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. That's great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other. Read more
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Running GitHub Actions on a Mac Mini
Running GitHub Actions on a Mac Mini
Matthieu Napoli explains how he replaced GitHub-hosted CI with self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini at home. The setup is simple, fast, and a good look at the trade-offs around isolation, caching, and parallelism. Read more
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Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
An absurd and very fun technical deep dive into getting Mac OS X 10.0 running natively on a Nintendo Wii. It covers the hardware investigation, boot process, kernel patching, and driver work needed to pull it off. Read more
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Understanding Traceroute
Understanding Traceroute
A clear walkthrough of how traceroute works under the hood. It explains the TTL trick, the ICMP replies routers send back, and even rebuilds the core idea in Rust. Read more
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Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption
Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption
We've shipped several improvements to the Oh Dear API to make it work better with AI coding agents. The updates include historical check runs, dashboard links in every response, and markdown-friendly documentation. Read more
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★ Generate Apple and Google Wallet passes from Laravel
★ Generate Apple and Google Wallet passes from Laravel
A mobile pass is that thing in your iPhone's Wallet app. A boarding pass, a concert ticket, a coffee loyalty card, a gym membership. Apple calls them passes. Google calls them objects. Both Wallet apps let you generate them, hand them out, and push live updates to the copy that's already on someone's device. We just released Laravel Mobile Pass, a package that lets you generate those Apple and Google passes from a Laravel app and send updates to already issues passes. Together with the package,…
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In Praise of --dry-run
In Praise of --dry-run
Henrik Warne makes a good case for adding a --dry-run mode to commands that change state. It gives you a fast, safe way to verify configuration, inspect behavior, and test workflows without side effects. Read more
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