Six weeks running Laravel Pulse in production. The recorders I turned off, the slow query that surprised me, and when I still reach for Telescope.
I migrated a Laravel codebase from PHPUnit to Pest and stopped halfway. Here's where Pest actually wins, where PHPUnit still does, and what I'd skip.
Six months of Laravel Volt in production: where single-file Livewire components actually pay off, where they don't, and the bits that tripped me up.
Six months running Laravel AI in production: the stack I actually reach for, the package I bailed on, and the parts that are still mostly…
Laravel 12 shipped with new starter kits, a cleaner skeleton, and PHP 8.2 minimum. Here's what actually changed and why the slim release is a…
PHP 8.4 property hooks replace getter/setter boilerplate with inline get and set logic. Here's how they work in practice with Laravel DTOs and value objects.