Deploying new features used to mean holding your breath. You merged the branch, pushed to production, and hoped the QA process caught everything. If it didn’t, rollback meant either reverting a deployment or shipping a hotfix under pressure. Feature flags change that story entirely, and Laravel Pennant gives you a first-party, well-designed way to build […]

If you spend most of your PHP time in Laravel or Symfony, you may have noticed a framework quietly picking up momentum over the past couple of years. Tempest describes itself as “the PHP framework that gets out of your way,” and after spending time with version 3.0 — released February 12, 2026 — that […]

Video version https://youtu.be/pxnY6T98G14 You may not realize it, but most developers today sit at their keyboards running a manual while loop without realizing it. You write a prompt, read the response, decide what to ask next, and repeat, over and over again. All day long, you are the thing that keeps the process moving toward […]

If you’ve been using Claude Code as a single monolithic assistant, you’ve only been using half the tool. Subagents — specialized AI assistants that Claude Code can spin up and delegate tasks to — fundamentally change how you work. Instead of context-switching between “write this Pest test,” “optimize that MySQL query,” and “review this Rector […]

When the Symfony team shipped UX 3.0 on April 13, 2026, they did something that major version bumps rarely do cleanly: they used the opportunity to remove things. Not just deprecated APIs, but entire packages that had quietly become dead weight over the 2.x cycle. The result is a leaner, more opinionated frontend toolkit that […]

Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic methods to describe what our request is doing. Generally, we’re working with GET or POST requests, but these have limitations on them that you won’t be aware of until you’ve run headlong into one of them. The best example is […]

For twenty-plus years, “deploying PHP” meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a configuration file glued between them that nobody on the team really understood. FrankenPHP is the first genuinely different answer that stack has had in a long time, and after a couple of years of steady releases […]

Caleb Porzio shipped Livewire v4 in January 2026, and it’s not a minor bump. The release introduces islands architecture, single-file components as the default format, scoped styles, built-in drag-and-drop sorting, and a suite of optimistic UI directives that make your interfaces feel instant. If you’ve been building with Livewire v3, the upgrade path is smooth […]

Video version: https://youtu.be/uVKXmqYVjpQ One of the more powerful features of AI-assisted development is that you can put multiple AI coding agents to work simultaneously with little effort. For example, you might have one building a new feature, one cleaning up an old API endpoint, and a third drafting a blog post. If the agents share […]

Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here’s how to use them effectively with PHP. Every PHP developer eventually hits the “tree problem.” You have categories with subcategories, employees with managers, comments with replies, or menu items with children — and you need to query […]