Your Laravel routes can carry metadata now, and Flare shows it
Laravel now supports attaching arbitrary metadata to routes, and the latest laravel-flare client shows that context in error reports and performance traces. Read more
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Everything About the Context Facade
A deep dive into Laravel Context, from request metadata and automatic log enrichment to hidden context, scoped values, queues, scheduled commands, and internals. Read more
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Storied Colors
A lovely growing index of colors, each with its own provenance, chemistry, and often grim history. Beautifully made, and exactly the kind of rabbit hole I enjoy falling into. Read more
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Learn Anything With My /teach Skill
Matt Pocock shows how his /teach skill turns Claude Code into a personalized teacher that adapts lessons to your goals, level, and progress. It creates structured lessons, resources, quizzes, and a learning record so you can keep building on what you learned. Read more
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Life is too short for a slow terminal
Mijndert Stuij shares a bunch of practical ways to make your terminal feel instant, from skipping shell frameworks and caching completions to lazy-loading slow tools. A good reminder that tiny bits of latency add up fast when you live in your terminal all day. Read more
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Context-aware headings in HTML
A look at the new experimental headingoffset attribute, which lets heading levels adapt to their context instead of hardcoding h2s and h3s. A thoughtful explanation of where this could be genuinely useful, especially in component-based UIs. Read more
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Improving Laravel Architecture With Expressive
Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects. Read more
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Eloquent Query Classes Pattern
Learn how to use Eloquent Query Classes to organize important database logic in Laravel without adding a full repository layer. Read more
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Architecture Decision Record
A concise explanation of ADRs: short documents that capture an important decision, the context behind it, and its consequences. Good practical advice on keeping them lightweight, readable, and useful over time. Read more
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Building RAG in Laravel: Four Ingestion Bugs That Silently Wreck Retrieval
Every Laravel RAG tutorial builds the same ingestion pipeline (chunk, embed, store) and stops the moment the agent answers on screen. None of them check whether retrieval is any good. But retrieval quality is decided at ingestion, before the model runs once, and four decisions there fail with no error, no exception, no failed test: Chunking that severs the answer mid-sentence, so answer@1 falls while source hit@1 still looks healthy. An HNSW index built with vector_l2_ops while you query with…
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Feature Flags in Laravel with Pennant
How we use class-based Laravel Pennant features, with a kill switch on every flag and a config-driven path to general availability. Read more
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How PHP Attributes Changed the Way I Write Livewire
Bert De Swaef shows how PHP attributes made his Livewire components easier to read by attaching validation, URL sync, and event listeners directly to the properties and methods they belong to. Nice piece on how attributes reduce mental overhead, improve IDE support, and make components feel more self-documenting. Read more
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Caching get_certificate lookups in Caddy
Mattias open sourced a small Caddy module that caches get_certificate HTTP lookups, avoiding a backend fetch on every TLS handshake. A nice write-up on the problem, the design, and the trade-offs. Read more
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The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it
A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the edge case and how they're tightening their resolver setup to reduce that blind spot. Read more
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