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"https://freek.dev/2874-typehinting-laravel-validation-rules-using-phpstans-type-aliases", "published_at": "2025-06-18T13:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c4b31ed56", "title": "A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps", "url": "https://freek.dev/2864-a-package-to-handle-one-time-passwords-otp-in-laravel-apps", "published_at": "2025-05-22T14:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c4b7476a3", "title": "A package to handle passkeys in Laravel", "url": "https://freek.dev/2854-a-package-to-handle-passkeys-in-laravel", "published_at": "2025-05-09T09:00:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c4e259f59", "title": "Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions", "url": "https://freek.dev/2843-running-php-tests-in-parallel-on-github-actions", "published_at": "2025-04-22T15:00:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c4fa4c880", "title": "Implementing Multitenancy in Laravel", "url": "https://freek.dev/2841-implementing-multitenancy-in-laravel", "published_at": "2025-04-07T13:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c6387a423", "title": "How to test all routes in your Laravel app by writing just a single Pest test", "url": "https://freek.dev/2739-how-to-test-all-routes-in-your-laravel-app-by-writing-just-a-single-pest-test", "published_at": "2024-07-19T09:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c63d28adb", "title": "A package to use Filepond in your Livewire component", "url": "https://freek.dev/2738-a-package-to-use-filepond-in-your-livewire-component", "published_at": "2024-07-16T13:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c66b210ce", "title": "A package to display solutions on the Laravel error page", "url": "https://freek.dev/2736-a-package-to-display-solutions-on-the-laravel-error-page", "published_at": "2024-07-03T14:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c79b0b958", "title": "My keynote at PHPUKConference 2024", "url": "https://freek.dev/2659-my-keynote-at-phpukconference-2024", "published_at": "2024-02-15T23:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c7ca68095", "title": "Generating status badges using PHP", "url": "https://freek.dev/2652-generating-status-badges-using-php", "published_at": "2024-01-27T16:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c7d8f651f", "title": "Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production", "url": "https://freek.dev/2643-making-sure-laravels-debug-mode-is-always-disabled-in-production", "published_at": "2024-01-22T09:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c7df8980d", "title": "A mini package to calculate public holidays in a country", "url": "https://freek.dev/2641-a-mini-package-to-calculate-public-holidays-in-a-country", "published_at": "2024-01-17T14:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c7e358e42", "title": "Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF", "url": "https://freek.dev/2639-creating-beautiful-invoices-using-tailwind-and-laravel-pdf", "published_at": "2024-01-16T16:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c7fae9f02", "title": "My interview questions when hiring a front-end / back-end / whatever developer at Spatie", "url": "https://freek.dev/2634-my-interview-questions-when-hiring-a-front-end-back-end-whatever-developer-at-spatie", "published_at": "2024-01-10T17:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c802e6729", "title": "Flare ❤️ GitLab", "url": "https://freek.dev/2617-flare-gitlab", "published_at": "2024-01-10T10:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c8342575e", "title": "How we built our GitLab integration", "url": "https://freek.dev/2618-how-we-built-our-gitlab-integration", "published_at": "2024-01-09T09:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c95793217", "title": "Easily create PDFs in Laravel apps", "url": "https://freek.dev/2625-easily-create-pdfs-in-laravel-apps", "published_at": "2024-01-02T15:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696c973cd97e", "title": "New major versions for spatie/image and Laravel Media Library have been released", "url": "https://freek.dev/2619-new-major-versions-for-spatieimage-and-laravel-media-library-have-been-released", "published_at": "2023-12-18T13:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696ca429d72b", "title": "Spatie's Black Friday Deals", "url": "https://freek.dev/2600-spaties-black-friday-deals", "published_at": "2023-11-17T15:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696cb542633e", "title": "Creating my new album \"Kind\"", "url": "https://freek.dev/2569-creating-my-new-album-kind", "published_at": "2023-09-25T10:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696cb62d91fa", "title": "Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022", "url": "https://freek.dev/2565-video-the-keynotes-of-full-stack-europe-2022", "published_at": "2023-09-19T08:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696cc0062367", "title": "Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML", "url": "https://freek.dev/2549-craft-emails-that-look-good-in-each-email-client-using-mjml", "published_at": "2023-08-25T08:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696ccaa17de4", "title": "How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage", "url": "https://freek.dev/2541-how-we-created-those-fancy-animations-on-the-flare-homepage", "published_at": "2023-08-04T10:00:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df5-5f6a-70ff-876d-696ccedbc287", "title": "Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails", "url": "https://freek.dev/2539-using-postmark-rebound-to-improve-handling-of-bounced-emails", "published_at": "2023-07-27T17:00:03+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

Introducing: Dark mode for Flare original ↗

21 Sept 2026

★ Detecting spam and auto-replies with Jev and the Laravel AI SDK original ↗

18 Sept 2026

What's New in PHP 8.6 original ↗

16 Sept 2026

Logarithmic auto-scaling for Laravel Horizon original ↗

12 Sept 2026

Eloquent Performance and Database Design: Evidence Before Eager Loading original ↗

11 Sept 2026

A Series of Unfortunate Jobs original ↗

10 Sept 2026

Run AI in the Browser: A Practical Guide to Transformers.js original ↗

9 Sept 2026

Using AI as a deterministic translation tool in Laravel original ↗

7 Sept 2026

Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP original ↗

4 Sept 2026

Build Your Own AI-Powered Slack Bot with the Laravel AI SDK original ↗

31 Aug 2026

Is AI going to steal my job as a design engineer?original ↗

25 Aug 2026

Modular Monoliths: Creating Real Boundaries Before Reaching for Microservices original ↗

20 Aug 2026

Immutability in PHP Beyond readonly original ↗

17 Aug 2026

Flare now uses OAuth for MCP, the CLI, and API original ↗

15 Aug 2026

Can we make default Tailwind a more accessible choice?original ↗

14 Aug 2026

Why we removed AI solutions from Flare original ↗

13 Aug 2026

`exit()` may silently break your parallel tests original ↗

12 Aug 2026

Amped up original ↗

11 Aug 2026

sbx: Sandboxed Claude, complete with PHP and tools original ↗

10 Aug 2026

What's new in PHP 8.6 original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code original ↗

4 Aug 2026

We Became Editors-in-Chief, and Nobody Trained Us original ↗

3 Aug 2026

PHP version stats: July, 2026 original ↗

29 Jul 2026

Building an order fulfilment workflow in Laravel original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding on a VPS original ↗

24 Jul 2026

There's no artisan schema:show, so I built one original ↗

24 Jul 2026

Preventing SSRF in Laravel: Why Blocking Private IPs Fails original ↗

22 Jul 2026

PHP Attributes: What, Why, How and When original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Supercharge your PHP apps with Go-powered PHP extensions original ↗

17 Jul 2026

New in PHP 8.6: Faster array_map with first-class callables original ↗

15 Jul 2026

The Laravel Scheduler Under the Hood original ↗

14 Jul 2026

Everything About the Context Facade original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Improving Laravel Architecture With Expressive original ↗

23 Jun 2026

Eloquent Query Classes Pattern original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Building RAG in Laravel: Four Ingestion Bugs That Silently Wreck Retrieval original ↗

19 Jun 2026

How PHP Attributes Changed the Way I Write Livewire original ↗

17 Jun 2026

Rust Tutorial For PHP and JavaScript Developers original ↗

16 Jun 2026

★ Searching multiple columns with one URL parameter in laravel-query-builder original ↗

4 May 2026

★ Announcing laravel-sluggable v4 with self-healing URLs original ↗

29 Apr 2026

★ Generate Apple and Google Wallet passes from Laravel original ↗

23 Apr 2026

★ Instant view switches with Inertia v3 prefetching original ↗

13 Apr 2026

★ How we use Inertia v3 optimistic updates in There There original ↗

13 Apr 2026

★ Scotty: a beautiful SSH task runner original ↗

30 Mar 2026

★ What's new in laravel-activitylog v5 original ↗

25 Mar 2026

★ Laravel Query Builder v7: a must-have package for building APIs in Laravel original ↗

16 Mar 2026

★ Laravel Site Search v3 is here: crawl and search your entire site using just your database original ↗

12 Mar 2026

★ How to easily access private properties and methods in PHP original ↗

12 Mar 2026

★ Laravel Backup v10: serializable events, resilient multi-destination backups, and more original ↗

4 Mar 2026

★ Laravel Sitemap v8 is here: automatic splitting, XSL stylesheets, and crawler v9 original ↗

3 Mar 2026

★ A better way to crawl websites with PHP original ↗

2 Mar 2026

★ My Claude Code setup original ↗

2 Mar 2026

★ Generate OG images for your Laravel app original ↗

26 Feb 2026

★ Building a PHP CLI for humans and AI agents with almost no hand-written code original ↗

25 Feb 2026

★ Let your AI coding agent fix your errors and review performance original ↗

25 Feb 2026

★ Introducing the Flare CLI original ↗

25 Feb 2026

★ Adding a custom status line to Claude Code original ↗

24 Feb 2026

★ A clean API for reading PHP attributes original ↗

23 Feb 2026

Turn any OpenAPI spec into Laravel artisan commands original ↗

20 Feb 2026

A Laravel package to serve markdown to AI agents original ↗

18 Feb 2026

How to set up PHP autoformatting in Zed using Pint and PHP CS Fixer original ↗

17 Feb 2026

Laravel Response Cache v8 is here: now offers flexible caching original ↗

16 Feb 2026

My current setup for Laravel, PHP and AI assisted development (2026 edition)original ↗

16 Feb 2026

My current setup for Laravel, PHP and AI development (2026 edition)original ↗

14 Feb 2026

My current setup (2026 edition)original ↗

14 Feb 2026

Another new Spatie package drops: spatie/laravel-screenshot original ↗

13 Feb 2026

Another new Spatie package drops: spatie/laravel-screesnhot original ↗

12 Feb 2026

Laravel Permission v7 has been launched original ↗

12 Feb 2026

Laravel PDF v2 has been released: adds support for Laravel Cloud and easy queuing original ↗

8 Feb 2026

Introducing Ray 3.0 original ↗

5 Feb 2026

I built a native mobile word game in two weeks original ↗

31 Jan 2026

How to automatically generate a commit message using Claude original ↗

28 Jan 2026

Introducing Spatie Guidelines for Laravel Boost original ↗

27 Jan 2026

2025

Transform your URLs with AI using our new Laravel package original ↗

26 Aug 2025

Why I don't use down migrations original ↗

1 Aug 2025

How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities original ↗

18 Jul 2025

Introducing spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client original ↗

15 Jul 2025

Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases original ↗

18 Jun 2025

A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps original ↗

22 May 2025

A package to handle passkeys in Laravel original ↗

9 May 2025

Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions original ↗

22 Apr 2025

Implementing Multitenancy in Laravel original ↗

7 Apr 2025

2024

How to test all routes in your Laravel app by writing just a single Pest test original ↗

19 Jul 2024

A package to use Filepond in your Livewire component original ↗

16 Jul 2024

A package to display solutions on the Laravel error page original ↗

3 Jul 2024

My keynote at PHPUKConference 2024 original ↗

15 Feb 2024

Generating status badges using PHP original ↗

27 Jan 2024

Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production original ↗

22 Jan 2024

A mini package to calculate public holidays in a country original ↗

17 Jan 2024

Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF original ↗

16 Jan 2024

My interview questions when hiring a front-end / back-end / whatever developer at Spatie original ↗

10 Jan 2024

Flare ❤️ GitLab original ↗

10 Jan 2024

How we built our GitLab integration original ↗

9 Jan 2024

Easily create PDFs in Laravel apps original ↗

2 Jan 2024

2023

New major versions for spatie/image and Laravel Media Library have been released original ↗

18 Dec 2023

Spatie's Black Friday Deals original ↗

17 Nov 2023

Creating my new album "Kind"original ↗

25 Sept 2023

Video: the keynotes of Full Stack Europe 2022 original ↗

19 Sept 2023

Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original ↗

25 Aug 2023

How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage original ↗

4 Aug 2023

Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails original ↗

27 Jul 2023