BlogMostly Laravel, occasionally conferences, always a bit of rambling.
2026
- .gitattributes are important, but often forgotten!
One thing I notice quite often is that .gitattributes are forgotten, now I actually did this myself… I am a maintainer for laravel-dom-assertions and it wasn’t …
- Laracon USA 2026
My first Laracon USA: talks on AI and abstractions, meeting the community, and a lot of Boston food.
- Laravel Live London 2026
Laravel Live UK: value objects, metaprogramming, static analysis and finally meeting people in real life.
- How to Test Laravel's Development Branch Before a Release
Use composer to pull in Laravel's current development branch and test unreleased features before they ship.
- How to PR to Laravel
An 8-step guide to successfully contributing pull requests to the Laravel framework, covering source code familiarity, real-world problem framing, tests, branch …
- Parallel Laravel Dusk Tests
Run Laravel Dusk browser tests in parallel using a single ChromeDriver instance to cut your test suite runtime in half without increasing CI costs, with a …
- Queue Facade assertPushedTimes - Laravel v12.49.0
Laravel v12.49.0 introduces Queue::assertPushedTimes() for clearer, explicitly typed queue assertions in tests, and fixes a rare deadlock error on DatabaseLock …
- Enums - Enums - Enums - Laravel v12.45
Laravel v12.45.0 adds native enum support to the Storage, Cache, and Session facades, plus new QueuePaused and QueueResumed events for the queue:pause and …