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🧑‍🏭 Setup Laravel Nightwatch ⏲️ First request tracked 🤯 N + 1 found

One thing to keep in mind when using Laravel Nightwatch. If you have another Laravel app running on the same server with Nightwatch installed, data will get mixed up. You must either disable Nightwatch in the other app to stop collecting the data or manage different ports.

📌 Laravel tip: Keep your app timezone and display timezone separate. This idea is from the Ben Holmen Laravel News YouTube channel: store everything in UTC, display it in your preferred local timezone. Great for clarity and consistency! #Laravel #PHP #Carbon

Planning is the cousin of procrastination

Big VC funded apps all do massive amounts of paid marketing before you reach the landing So their landing can be minimalist and flashy because they've already hooked you in Their landing page is the end of their funnel For me there's NO paid marketing or ads so when people

One very common thing I have observed among my fellow developers, We put and leave console log statements in codebase. Are we keeping them for the end users to debug the issues themselves? 😆 Please set automated tools to report/remove these before you deploy. Thank me later.

im taking date picker inputs to the next level. we should not have to fuss with rigid date inputs ever again

I got Claude to build me an artifact to help decode this sneaky prompt attack

Pint can now be run in parallel mode for incredibly improved performance. 🚀

Pure gold for programmers using AI

Here's a quick two-step solution if you need to authenticate with two different accounts and SSH keys on the same host. This approach works for both Bitbucket and GitHub. masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-07-…

Day 1 of Laracon is live on YouTube: ◆ Aaron Francis ◆ Nuno Maduro ◆ TJ Miller ◆ Mary Perry ◆ Thiery Laverdure ◆ Chris Morrell ◆ John Drexler ◆ Taylor Otwell & Laravel Team youtube.com/watch?v=_eMBog…

Zero downtime deployments are going to be baked into Laravel Forge! Finally 😍

Today we announced the next generation of Laravel Forge! We introduced: - Zero downtime deployments - Heartbeats and health checks - Hosted on-forge.com domains - Laravel VPS - An all new command palette - and more! blog.laravel.com/everything-we-…

Today we release gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—two open-weight LLMs that deliver strong performance and agentic tool use. Before release, we ran a first of its kind safety analysis where we fine-tuned the models to intentionally maximize their bio and cyber capabilities 🧵

Laravel Boost has shipped. Boost is a local MCP server that accelerates your AI-assisted development by providing the essential context and structure that AI needs to generate high-quality, Laravel-specific code. Installs in seconds. Auto-detects your IDEs and tools like

I think the Laravel error page should get a boost as well. I just submitted a PR that adds a "Copy as Markdown" button to the default Laravel error view and I think this is pretty awesome 🔥

Great opportunity

Pest v4 is here — now with browser testing! ✨ Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in.