The New Debug Bar is my cleaner Laravel debugger, with a built-in MCP server that lets coding agents inspect the same saved requests as the browser interface.
Aug 31, 2026
Extracting AI rules from an existing codebase
How Laravel Boost uses an agent skill to find existing project conventions and record the useful ones as scoped rules.
Aug 31, 2026
5 years of Securing Laravel!
Yikes! I've been writing Securing Laravel for 5 years! 😲
Aug 31, 2026
Join Us for The PHP Foundation Community Hour
Announcing a new podcast designed to increase contributions to PHP.
Aug 29, 2026
Security Tip: Help Password Managers Get It Right!
[Tip #134] Laravel's password helper has a great little feature you may have missed: it can generate browser-friendly password rules automatically! 🤓
Aug 28, 2026
Cancel In-Flight Form Submissions in Inertia.js v3.7
Inertia.js v3.7 adds cancelOnUnmount and a cancel method to the Form component, a polling state from usePoll, and once props that survive instant visits.
Aug 28, 2026
Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship with Vite+
Every Laravel starter kit now builds with Vite+, trading ESLint and Prettier for a single vp check across React, Vue, Svelte, and Livewire.
Aug 28, 2026
Pessimistic Locking in Laravel Eloquent with refreshForUpdate()
Laravel 13.27 adds refreshForUpdate() to Eloquent, reloading a model under lockForUpdate() so you can take a pessimistic lock without requerying by key.
Aug 27, 2026
Mask Query Bindings in Laravel Exception Messages
Laravel 13.27 adds a per-connection option that keeps query bindings out of QueryException messages, so customer data stops reaching logs and APM tools.
Aug 26, 2026
whereBinary(): Case-Sensitive MySQL Queries in Laravel
Laravel 13.27 adds whereBinary() to the query builder for byte-exact, case-sensitive comparisons on MySQL and MariaDB without dropping into whereRaw().
Aug 26, 2026
Compile PHP to Native Binaries with TypePHP
TypePHP is Swoole's open source AOT compiler that turns PHP source into native binaries, PHP extensions, or shared libraries.
Aug 26, 2026
State of Laravel 2026 Survey Is Now Open
The State of Laravel 2026 survey is open. Tobias Petry's annual survey asks about your stack, tooling, deployments, and how you use AI.
