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Laravel Queues Laravel 13 Monitoring PHP

Slow Job Alerts in Laravel 13.40: What whenJobRunsLongerThan Catches and What It Misses

I ran Laravel 13.40's new slow job alerts against fast, slow, failed, released and timed out jobs. One of them never tri...

Nov 12, 2026 8 min read

Laravel Laravel Herd AI Agents Local Development PHP

Herd 2 Workspaces for Parallel Coding Agents: What Is Isolated and What Is Not

I made five Herd 2 workspaces for one Laravel app and tried to break them. The database warning was wrong once and right...

Nov 09, 2026 9 min read

Laravel Sessions Database Performance PHP

One Request Waited 5 Seconds to Clean Up Laravel Sessions. Here Is What 13.39's session:garbage-collect Changes

I filled a Laravel sessions table with a million expired rows. The lottery made one visitor wait 5.2 seconds. The 13.39...

Nov 05, 2026 9 min read

Laravel Composer Security DevOps PHP

Composer 2.11's Cooldown in a Laravel App: Safer Updates, Except When the Update Is the Security Fix

I turned on the new Composer cooldown in a Laravel 13 project. The first full update failed, because a security fix was...

Nov 02, 2026 11 min read

Laravel API Development Eloquent Performance PHP

Laravel's Built-In JSON:API Resources vs timacdonald/json-api vs laravel-json-api: Which One Your API Needs

I built the same JSON:API three ways on Laravel 13.38. One question decides which you need, and the built-in has an N+1...

Oct 29, 2026 10 min read

Laravel MySQL Database Queues Sanctum

Your Users Save and Still See Old Data: Laravel 13.38 Fixes Read Replica Lag, Except in 3 Places

I put the new stale-read middleware in front of a MySQL replica held 5 seconds behind. The setup from the docs still ser...

Oct 26, 2026 13 min read

Laravel PHPStan Larastan Claude Code Testing

I Ran Larastan at Every Level on Agent-Written Laravel Code: 4 Real Bugs, 3 Kinds of Noise

Larastan from level 0 to 10 on a production Laravel app written mostly by an agent. Where the real bugs were, and what t...

Oct 22, 2026 11 min read

DevOps Laravel Laravel Cloud Claude Code VPS

Going Cloud-Only With Laravel: What 7 Weeks on a €5 Dev Box Taught Me

Taylor Otwell wants to skip local dev tools. I moved my Laravel work onto a €5 box seven weeks ago. What it costs, and w...

Oct 19, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Security DevOps Environment Variables PHP

Stop Sharing .env Files in Slack: Laravel's Built-In env:encrypt Workflow

Laravel can encrypt .env files so they live in git, readable only with the key. The workflow, the new diff-friendly mode...

Oct 15, 2026 11 min read

Filament Laravel Livewire Security PHP

Filament 5.10 Security Fixes: The Livewire Scope Gap Your Upgrade Doesn't Close

Filament fixed four security advisories in 5.10. Upgrading closes most of them, but one root cause sits in Livewire and...

Oct 12, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Laravel AI SDK AI Agents PHP

Laravel AI SDK Skills: Load Agent Instructions Only When They're Needed

Agent skills landed in Laravel AI SDK v1.1.0. Here is how LoadSkill works, and how to give each team its own skills from...

Oct 08, 2026 12 min read

DevOps macOS Backups restic Backblaze B2

How I Set Up Encrypted Off-Site Backups for My MacBook With restic and Backblaze B2

My Mac had zero backups. Now it has encrypted daily snapshots on Backblaze B2 for pennies a month. The setup, the costs,...

Oct 05, 2026 14 min read