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Oct 19, 2026
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Oct 17, 2026
An online-first version control system in this agentic era
Anthropic recently shared an article explaining a version control system (VCS) that they have been using internally to overcome their own limitations around managing their humongous monorepo.
Oct 16, 2026
Laravel Cloud Office Hours: Astro, Static Sites, and Monorepos
We’re hosting Laravel Cloud Office Hours with Leah Thompson and Devon Garbalosa, answering your Laravel Cloud questions, including those submitted ahead of time via Slido. This time we’re starting with a live demo deploying an Astro site as a static site, then answering questions about JS frontends like Nuxt and Next, monorepos with a Laravel API and a JS frontend, and setting up staging and production environments.
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Oct 16, 2026
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Oct 16, 2026
Fluent Rule Builders for All Laravel Validation Rules
Laravel 13.36 adds Rule:: methods for required_with, accepted_if, url, uuid, distinct, and the other string-only validation rules, with IDE autocompletion.
Oct 15, 2026
The PHP Podcast 2026.10.15
PHP Podcast – October 15, 2026
Hosts: Joe Ferguson & Holly Schilling
Sara abandoned Holly and Joe. Longhorn PHP kicks off, agentic commerce gets scary, bots keep scanning, and a Cold War satellite schematic proves software is harder than hardware.
Swag, Longhorn PHP, and “Am I Even a PHP Developer?”
Joe opened by confessing he found a JavaScript bug in the swag store cart while ordering socks and a hoodie — the curse of being a developer who can only ever see the bugs. Holly joked that Sara got bumped from the show for refusing to wear swag, while Eric apparently bought one of everything in the store, including a Peanuts-style team picture card from PHP Tech.
The conversation turned to Longhorn PHP 2026, which kicked off with a tutorial day and runs through the main talk day on Friday. Holly is presenting remotely after travel plans fell through, giving a talk on her pet peeve: websites that get “packaged up” and shipped as apps instead of being built as real native applications.
That led into a heartfelt riff on imposter syndrome. Holly admitted she’s spent years insisting she’s “not really a PHP developer” despite submitting RFCs, speaking at conferences, and having an elephpant named after her. Joe shared his own years at a Python startup where he felt like a fraud for only writing PHP nights and weekends. The takeaway: showing up in community spaces — Discord, social media, GitHub, conferences — is all it takes to belong.
Agentic Commerce and Single-Use Card Security
Joe highlighted a Community Corner episode with Scott Keck-Warren and Paul Conroy on agentic commerce — the slightly terrifying idea of your Claude agent going out shopping on your behalf. Holly was especially wary of trusting Gemini for shopping advice given Google’s long history of steering how people search and buy.
Much of the underlying tech, they noted, lives in Stripe and resembles Apple Pay-style single-use card numbers: time-limited, amount-limited tokens that protect the real source card. Holly drew on her experience at a buy-now-pay-later company (now branded FlexPay) doing one-time code generation, where even 15-minute-lived card numbers required full PCI compliance, certificate pinning, HMAC, encryption at rest, and constant audits across every layer from mobile SDK to backend.
Bots, Scrapers, and Cloudflare to the Rescue
A Discord listener (ducknizzle) asked what everyone uses to kill bot and scanner traffic on public sites. Joe’s pessimistic answer: block ranges, sometimes entire countries, and ultimately just put it behind Cloudflare and let specialists deal with it — the same way you’d pay someone to host email rather than running it yourself.
Holly praised Cloudflare Pages for static content, calling it free and “it just works” with zero bandwidth worries, though WordPress makes things more complicated. Joe talked about his work-in-progress effort to standardize robots.txt across php.net properties, while acknowledging it only helps the well-behaved crawlers — malicious scrapers and AI training bots will simply ignore it. Holly estimated AI scrapers now outnumber legitimate bots roughly 10 to 1, and both lamented how the internet has lost some of its earlier friendliness.
How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports
Joe showcased a PHP Foundation blog post describing how the security team triages reports, sharing insight from his new role as a release manager. Release managers get advance heads-up on security releases, which follow extra processes to handle disclosures responsibly.
He explained that every report is read, triaged, and prioritized — someone in Discord recently got confirmation their advisory was “in the backlog.” The sobering reality is that the greater PHP security team is only one or two humans, reflecting the open-source nature of the project. The team can now issue its own CVEs rather than waiting on GitHub, so fixes and packager updates can ship as fast as possible. Joe noted serious, wild remote-code-execution-level vulnerabilities remain rare, especially this early in the 8.6 cycle, which just branched from master.
New PHP News Site, Design, and php.net’s Redesign
Joe demoed a new PHP ecosystem news site from Eric Barnes (Laravel News) and Matt Stauffer (Titan) in collaboration with the PHP Foundation — a modern aggregator reminiscent of the old Planet PHP days, complete with RFC coverage, a newsletter, topic sections, and a slick automatic dark mode toggle. Holly, admitting she has no eye for design herself, loved how well it was executed.
That sparked a running theme of developer respect for design as a discipline neither host feels competent in. Joe mentioned a php.net redesign in progress — mock-ups are available in the PHPC Discord’s PHP Foundation Ambassador Marketing subgroup, though it’s still a work in progress and not yet mobile friendly. Both admitted feeling like outsiders in design meetings the way non-developers feel in dev meetings. Joe shared Anthropic’s guidance to tell Claude what you *don’t* want for front-end work, to which he replied that as a developer, he often doesn’t even know what he doesn’t want.
A Satellite Schematic vs. a Million Lines of Code
Holly launched into a favorite tangent, inspired by Apple releasing its home hub device years after the hardware was ready and pundits asking why the software took so long. Working on her own project with 16 encryption keys across five servers, she had to draw diagrams just to keep the key exchanges straight.
She then described a treasured artifact: a 3-by-9-foot schematic of an entire FSC-78 Bravo-mod satellite terminal from her Army SATCOM days at Fort Detrich — the whole Cold War-grade, anti-jamming system fitting on roughly 65 letter-sized pages. Contrast that with Margaret Hamilton’s famous photo beside the Apollo code printouts: around a million lines, a scale that’s routine in modern projects. Her point: software complexity dwarfs even elaborate hardware, and developers rarely give themselves credit for it — leaky abstractions, uncaught exceptions, and endless edge cases don’t plague hardware the way they plague code.
The discussion wrapped with fault tolerance stories: Joe discovered a three-node Elasticsearch staging cluster where failover had never been enabled (and only one node was taking all the traffic), and Holly recalled a satellite timing setup with redundant cesium sources where the only part that kept failing monthly was the single non-redundant box joining them together. Fault tolerance, they agreed, is important.
Links from the show:
PHP Tech 2027 — Chicago, April 27–29, tickets & CFP open
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PHP Foundation — How the Security Team Handles Your Reports
Community Corner Podcast: Agentic Commerce with Paul Conroy
2027 State of Open Source Survey (Perforce / OpenLogic / Zend)
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Oct 15, 2026
Community Corner Podcast: Agentic Commerce with Paul Conroy
In this episode, Scott talks with Paul Conroy about agentic commerce: how AI agents buy things on our behalf, how Stripe’s shared payment tokens keep them on a budget, and how the Machine Payments Protocol finally puts HTTP 402 Payment Required to work in your API middleware.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Charging AI Agents Per Request: A Practical Guide to the Machine Payments Protocol – https://conroyp.com/articles/practical-guide-machine-payments-protocol
Agentic Commerce Beyond The Checkout: Building with Machine Payments (Paul’s talk) – https://conroyp.com/speaking/agentic-commerce-beyond-the-checkout-building-with-machine-payments
PayForGoals.com, the MPP demo – https://payforgoals.com
PayForGoals.com source code – https://github.com/square1-io/www.payforgoals.com
laravel-mpp package – https://github.com/square1-io/laravel-mpp
Stripe Machine Payments Protocol quickstart – https://docs.stripe.com/payments/machine/mpp/quickstart
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Oct 15, 2026
Sending Emails in Your Laravel Cloud Application
Resend is now a first-party integration with Laravel Cloud. That means sending email with any app that you host on Laravel Cloud is now easier than ever.
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Oct 15, 2026
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Oct 15, 2026
Laravel OCR Package: Turn PDFs into PHP Arrays
Package on GitHub: https://github.com/mayaramyadav/laravel-ocr
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