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Jul 31, 2026 · Scott Keck-Warren

Mago: Blazing Fast Static Analysis for PHP

Video version: https://youtu.be/ZtAKnN6jWbE I love static analysis tools to a degree that my co-workers find annoying....

Jul 22, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags

Deploying new features used to mean holding your breath. You merged the branch, pushed to production, and hoped the QA...

Jul 20, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way

If you spend most of your PHP time in Laravel or Symfony, you may have noticed a framework quietly picking up momentum...

Jul 17, 2026 · Scott Keck-Warren

Introduction to Loop Engineering: Building AI Agents That Run Themselves

Video version https://youtu.be/pxnY6T98G14 You may not realize it, but most developers today sit at their keyboards run...

Jul 17, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Claude Code Subagents: Delegate Like a Senior PHP Developer

If you've been using Claude Code as a single monolithic assistant, you've only been using half the tool. Subagents — s...

Jul 14, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Symfony UX 3.0: A Component-First Frontend for PHP Developers

When the Symfony team shipped UX 3.0 on April 13, 2026, they did something that major version bumps rarely do cleanly:...

Jul 10, 2026 · Scott Keck-Warren

HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs

Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic method...

Jul 9, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance

For twenty-plus years, "deploying PHP" meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a...

Jul 7, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Livewire 4's Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead

Caleb Porzio shipped Livewire v4 in January 2026, and it's not a minor bump. The release introduces islands architectu...

Jul 2, 2026 · Scott Keck-Warren

How to run multiple AI agents in parallel with git worktrees

Video version: https://youtu.be/uVKXmqYVjpQ One of the more powerful features of AI-assisted development is that you ca...

Jul 1, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

MySQL Recursive CTEs for PHP Developers: Querying Hierarchical Data Without the Pain

Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here's how to use th...

Jun 29, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Laravel Prompts TUI Guide

Terminal UIs have had a quiet renaissance in the developer tools world. From Lazygit to btop, the era of the ugly text-o...

Jun 27, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

MySQL JSON Columns

MySQL's JSON column type has been around since version 5.7, but it's one of those features where the gap between "I know...

Jun 25, 2026 · Eric Van Johnson

Claude Code for PHP Developers

If you've been hearing about Claude Code but assumed it's mostly for the JavaScript and Python crowd, it's time to take...