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Getters and setters as we know them are obsolete. Property hooks and asymmetric visibility — shipped November 21, 2024 — change how PHP handles object state permanently. Fifteen years. That’s how long PHP developers have been writing getEmail() and setEmail() to control access to class… Read More »PHP 8.4 Property Hooks Are the Biggest OOP Change in Years. Here’s Every Pattern You Need.
Five releases. Five different problems. One unmistakable direction. I’ve been writing about Laravel every day for three weeks. This week was different. Not because any single release was unprecedented. Taylor has shipped remarkable things before — Livewire wire:navigate changing how SPAs feel, Horizon making queue… Read More »Laravel 13, Cloud CLI, MCP, NativePHP — The Laravel Ecosystem Just Had Its Best Week in Years.
Laravel 13 ships 9 model attributes. Here’s every single one with before/after code, edge cases you’ll actually hit, and a practical migration strategy for existing apps. Count the lines before your first method on any model you wrote last month. Four? Six? Eight? Every Laravel… Read More »PHP Attributes on Laravel Models Are Here. Your Eloquent Classes Are About to Get a Lot Cleaner.
laravel/mcp is in the official docs, MIT licensed, and already has 8.8 million installs. Here’s what it does, why it matters, and how to build one from scratch. Most Laravel developers are building three entry points into their applications: a web interface, a JSON API,… Read More »Laravel Has a Built-In MCP Server. Most Developers Don’t Know It Exists.
The core framework and all essential plugins are now open source. No license fee. No Swift or Kotlin. Just Laravel running natively on your phone. There’s a moment every PHP developer dreads. The client or boss says: “We also need a mobile app.” And you… Read More »NativePHP v3 Is Free, MIT Licensed, and Ready. Here’s How to Build a Native iOS App With Laravel Today.
Nightwatch MCP dropped February 17th. Here’s what it actually does, how to set it up in three steps, and the exact prompts that turn Claude Code into a production debugging partner. Picture the moment: you’re in a flow state, deep in a feature. Slack pings.… Read More »Your AI Agent Can Now Debug Your Laravel App. Nightwatch MCP Makes It Real.
No more clicking through dashboards. The Cloud API and CLI went production-ready on March 3rd — here’s the full deployment workflow from zero to live. Three days ago, the Laravel Cloud API and CLI went generally available. If you’ve been deploying Laravel apps by clicking… Read More »The Laravel Cloud CLI Just Went GA. You Can Now Deploy From Your Terminal in 30 Seconds.
PHP Attributes on models, jobs, commands, and requests. Cache::touch(). No breaking changes. Published 12 days before launch so you’re ready on day one. Laravel 13 releases March 17, 2026 — two weeks from now. The upgrade requires PHP 8.3 minimum (up from 8.2), but beyond… Read More »Laravel 13 Drops March 17. Here’s Every New Feature — With Code.
One SaaS invoicing system. One AI agent. Zero hand-holding. Here’s exactly what it got right, what it got wrong, and what the workflow looks like in 2026. This is not a tutorial. It’s a report. I gave Claude Code a real task: build a complete… Read More »I Let Claude Code Build a Full Filament Admin Panel. Here’s What Happened.
Every comparison article says “it depends.” This one gives you the actual decision. Five questions. Five minutes. You’ll know which to use. “It depends” is the most useless answer in software development. Every Livewire vs Vue article you’ve read ends with a hedge: “choose based… Read More »Livewire v4 vs Vue 3 in 2026: I’ll Tell You Exactly Which One to Pick (No More “It Depends”)