How to Set Variables in a Laravel Blade Template
Need to create a variable inside a Blade template, calculate a value, and display it without getting an Undefined variable error? You can do it dire…
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How to Fix "Stripe Webhook Signature Verification Failed" in Laravel
If your Laravel application suddenly throws "Stripe webhook signature verification failed" — the Stripe PHP SDK's SignatureVerificationException , u…
Household Manager: agents that run the house on the clock
Household Manager is a Laravel application I am building in public. The point is not a chat window that invents a grocery list. The point is a set o…
Stop Sharing .env Files in Slack: Laravel's Built-In env:encrypt Workflow
Originally published at hafiz.dev A recent r/laravel thread asked how teams share .env secrets with teammates and across environments . One of the m…
5 Laravel Production Mistakes That Pass Every Local Test
The most expensive Laravel production mistakes are the ones that work perfectly on your laptop. Locally you have one server, no cache files, no load…
Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows
Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows Artificial intelligence is becoming a practical part of modern web development.…
How I Got a 1,000-Row Filament Table from 10.9 s to 1.1 s with Canvas
Disclosure: I'm the author of Warp Table, a commercial Filament plugin. The measurements below come from its public demo, which you can use to run t…
Mail::alwaysTo() Guards One Mailer: The Staging Leak It Leaves Open
A few weeks ago I saved a link about keeping test emails away from real users. The plan was simple: add Mail::alwaysTo() to our staging setup and st…
This Week in PHP Internals | Oct 8, 2026
PHP's default password hash only reads the first 72 bytes of your password. Last week, a plan to make it refuse anything longer split the list, beca…
Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel
The big bang rewrite is the most confident decision an engineering team can make and one of the worst. The pitch is always reasonable. The current s…
Building Bulletproof Laravel APIs using Schema-First Contract Validation
Most Laravel APIs I review have the same shape. There is a controller, there is a FormRequest, and somewhere in a folder nobody has opened in four m…
Seven Days in Ten Milliseconds
Last month I walked through building an order fulfilment workflow with the workflow engine: signals arriving from webhooks, timeouts bounding the wa…
This Week in PHP Internals | Oct 1, 2026
Pick a password longer than 72 bytes for a PHP app on the default hash. PHP keeps the first 72 and throws the rest away, without a word. Then it let…
Laravel Preview Environments: Why Every Pull Request Could Have Its Own App
🚀 Laravel Preview Environments: Why Every Pull Request Could Have Its Own App Imagine opening a pull request and immediately getting a URL where any…
Squashing Laravel Migrations: 5 Ways schema:dump --prune Bites a Real Team
Originally published at hafiz.dev A recent r/laravel thread was titled "250 migrations in 3 years. What's yours at?" The standard answer is one comm…
Вебхук, в котором нельзя работать
Каждое нажатие кнопки в телеграм-боте — это HTTP-запрос от Telegram к вам. Около трёхсот тысяч человек в месяц, у каждого в сессии десятки нажатий,…
When Redis goes down, does your app die?
The Problem: The App Dies There was an incident that caused our application to fail because our Redis cache went down. It was in the middle of movin…
No measurement, no optimization
No measurement, no optimization. There's a common saying in programming: "Don't optimize what you haven't measured yet." You can only truly apprecia…
Pelican vs Reviactyl v26: Which Pterodactyl Successor Should You Choose in 2026?
Pterodactyl changed the game for self-hosted game server management. For years, it has been one of the most recognizable open-source panels for mana…
Episode 02: Getting Started with the Laravel AI SDK
The Laravel AI SDK is Laravel's first-party package for building AI-powered application features without turning your codebase into a collection of…
Laravel Is Not As Heavy As You Think
Recently I came across another discussion about Laravel's memory usage and I can't say that it was exactly new to me, I've worked with Laravel and L…
Sandboxing PDF Processing in PHP with Bubblewrap
What happens when your PHP application processes an untrusted PDF with an external binary? Most of us never think about it. A user uploads a file, a…
Your Inertia SSR server is down and your site still returns 200
The site looked fine. Every page loaded, every blog post rendered, the styling was right, nothing in the logs. What was wrong was that Search Consol…
Doppar 4 Has Been Released, and Here Is Why It Is Special
Doppar 4.0 is out today. I want to start this post with something I haven't said out loud before. Doppar 3.0 was a good framework, but if you put it…
Enabling HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for Your Laravel App: A Practical Nginx Guide
Open your Laravel app on a phone with two bars of signal and watch the network waterfall. On HTTP/1.1, the browser opens six TCP connections and que…
Laramod: Laravel modules without the magic that still feels magical
Why Every Laravel application starts out tidy. Then it grows, and one day app/Http/Controllers has eighty files in it, billing sits beside the blog,…
How to Check Laravel Page Memory Usage Without Guessing
A Laravel page once started feeling unusually heavy. The server was running, the page was loading, and there was no obvious error. But one question…
Tired of "new" Everywhere? Learn Factory Method with Laravel
1. Hook & Problem Statement You're building a Laravel application. You need to create a payment processor. So you write: $processor = new Stripe…
I pointed one Eloquent-style client at 62 public APIs. Here's how they answered.
At work I had a lot of external APIs to talk to from Laravel. Each one got its own little client, its own pagination loop, its own way of saying "no…
Building PHP Ukraine with Laravel and PostgreSQL
A couple of weeks ago I started building PHP Ukraine . The initial idea was pretty simple. I wanted one place where PHP developers in Ukraine could…