[Security Tip #135] During a recent pentest, I suddenly got hit with 403s on every request. It wasn't a WAF - it was a clever little trap one of my clients built to catch anyone poking at Livewire. Let me show you how it works. 🤓
Sep 4, 2026
Taylor disabled GitHub Issues on most Laravel open-source packages.
If you hit a bug, describe it to a coding agent and open a PR. Even if the code isn't great, that's fine - code can be iterated on. The PR still documents the p…
Sep 4, 2026
Exclude Vendor and Default Commands in `php artisan dev`
Laravel 13.30 adds DevCommands::withoutVendorCommands() and withoutDefaultCommands(), so php artisan dev runs only the processes your application registers.
Sep 3, 2026
Laravel August Product Updates
Here's everything that shipped in August.
Sep 3, 2026
The Laracon Archive
The Laracon Archive - an archive of 626 talks, 287 speakers, 5 Laracons, over the entire 14 years
Sep 3, 2026
Semantic memory or just Markdown?
Why Laravel Boost project rules use a generated Markdown index after we deleted semantic search.
Sep 3, 2026
Group Adjacent Collection Items in Laravel with chunkBy()
Laravel 13.30 adds chunkBy() to collections and lazy collections, splitting sorted data into runs of matching items without loading it all into memory.
Sep 3, 2026
Laravel queue:work Now Prints Why the Worker Stopped
Laravel 13.30 writes the queue worker's stop reason to queue:work output, in plain text and as a structured JSON record for log pipelines.
Sep 3, 2026
Fixing PHPStan Issues in Livewire Components with Larastan-Livewire
Read about how to use `calebdw/larastan-livewire` package to solve PHPStan issues related to using Livewire computed properties. We look at a real-life example of how I used it to solve my own issue.
Sep 2, 2026
Sidecar Brings Statamic's Control Panel to Your Existing Markdown Sites
Sidecar lets you manage markdown documentation and static sites from LaraDocs, Jigsaw, VitePress, and HydePHP directly inside the Statamic Control Panel
Sep 2, 2026
Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP
Across Europe, public administrations have already decided what their digital infrastructure runs on, and it is PHP
Sep 1, 2026
Collections chunkBy() and Storage Path Hardening in Laravel 13.30
Laravel 13.30 adds a chunkBy() collection method, confines Storage::path() to the disk root, and prints why a queue worker stopped in queue:work output.
