Solid guide for Laravel queues

Haven't yet written a single guideline document for LLMs, but this sounds like good advice on doing so

Also used Lovable for the first time today. Can’t say I’m impressed. Is that really the state-of-the-art when it comes to prototyping? Anything else I should be looking into? I mostly care about early design and HTML/CSS

Just gave Google's Antigravity a twirl for some light design changes to my company's website. The combo Gemini 3 Pro/browser integration shows great promise, but the agent currently crashes way too often for it to be truly usable IMO. Ultimately did the job though

Recent updates on my OpenAPI HttpFoundation Testing package: ☑️ Added support for URLs ☑️ Added support for Symfony 8 It's now been downloaded more than 1.7M times. Link and article in next post ⬇️

Funny to re-watch Ex Machina with everything that happened in the last 3 years

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

🚀 #PHP 8.5 released with major improvements: new URI extension, Pipe operator |>, property modification during cloning, NoDiscard attribute & performance boosts. Built for modern development workflows #WebDev #BackendDev www.php.net/releases/8....

Petition for a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins in the UK

The way I see it, PHP is getting torn apart between JavaScript and Python. The former because of some outdated reputation, the latter because of lacking "AI" support. Fight the former with a rebranding, bring in decent AI support, and PHP could easily regain its rightful place

Anyone knows if Laravel Live UK is happening next year? Feels like it should have been announced by now 🤔

This is part of the PHP rebrand discussion, in my opinion. In this case, so PHP developers aren't forced to look into Python

📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 12 November, Yannick Chenot @osteel.bsky.social will help us navigate our maze-like code bases with the Closed-by-Default Principle. This one won't be live-streamed so come Join us in Brighton! 📅 Details and registration 👇 www.meetup.com/php-s... #php

The phase about preparing a talk that I dread the most – the first few practice rounds. I always feel like I’m in way above my head and that I will never remember all that text 🫠

The State of PHP 2025

📢 Did you miss @danjohnson.xyz 's talk on character encoding last month? 👀 The recording of the session is now available! www.youtube.com/watc... ⚡ It follows a lightning talk by Adria Figueres on the impostor syndrome

My current problem is that any AI-powered workflow I identify as interesting/viable seems to become obsolete before I find the time to give it a proper try

Wouldn’t necessarily structure everything the exact same way, but this is a good, straightforward introduction to the hexagonal architecture in Laravel

Enjoyed reading Luke Harries (Growth Lead at ElevenLabs)’ recent articles on startup growth https://harries.co

PHP Sussex has a new look! @jobyh.bsky.social's been busy and delivered a sleek new design 💅 https://phpsussex.uk

⏰ One week to go before our next meetup! Dan Johnson @danjohnson.xyz will demystify character encoding after a lightning talk about the impostor syndrome. Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇

In case that's helpful, I've just realised you can reference existing chats in ChatGPT, which I find is a good way to create "checkpoints" (continue a chat in a different window to avoid polluting the original one, that you might want to preserve)

Interesting stuff. Didn't know you could send values to a generator 😮

This is very much in line with how I feel about the programming industry at the moment

I read this and suddenly feel very tired

So are we basically at the stage where we need a Claude Code subscription (with MCP integrations) for high-level tasks, a Cursor one for hands-on coding, and a ChatGPT one for deep research?

I like this a lot 👀 blog.laravel.com/eve...

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Really need to find some time to have a play with FrankenPHP vulke.medium.com/fra...

More than a month old (which is a long time in this space) but still very relevant. Feels like sceptic voices got quieter lately though, but maybe that’s just my echo chambers fly.io/blog/youre-al...

"The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived." www.joanwestenberg.c...

This is one of the best release notes I've read this year. github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer... Congratulations to the release of PHP 8.4 support <3

My Time Machine backups suddenly started failing, seemingly because of some project dependencies installed through pnpm. Found this little program that looks for and excludes project dependencies from backups, which fixed the issue github.com/stevegrun...

If Martin Fowler says it martinfowler.com/art...

I’ll be giving a quick highlights reel on what’s new in Drupal with Drupal CMS before the main show at @phpsussex tomorrow www.meetup.com/php-sussex/e...

I thought one side effect of running @phpsussex.uk might be more job opportunities for me. Instead, more people ask me if I know of any job opportunities

"Productivity without reflection is just accelerated entropy" suckup.de/2025/06/wh...

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I think it’s about time they made a Predator movie in which humans find the fuckers’ home world and show them who’s boss

Predator: Killer of Killers is pretty good

📢 Did you miss Darren Arbon's and Christopher Miller's talks about transferable skills and burnout last month? 👀 The recording of the session is now available! www.youtube.com/live...

📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 11 June, Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com will show us how to implement the Outbox Pattern in Laravel. There will also be two lightning talks about Drupal's latest and PHPStorm's Junie. 📅 Details and registration 👇 www.meetup.com/php-s... #php

Everything indicates that next #PHP version will ship pipe operator 😍! RFC is now in voting phase, with majority of Yes votes. In my opinion this is really nice addition to the language and something different than features added in previous versions. wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...

I'm currently writing a detailed task description for a new developer that I'm helping onboard. I'm realising as I'm writing it that I could feed that to Cursor and be done in 5 minutes instead.

When to use each OpenAI model help.openai.com/en/a...

Turns out Rush Hour is still a decent watch

Sensible take

18 years after the last episode aired, I’ve finally watched The Sopranos. The show features many great quotes, but the one that’s stuck with me is this: "Every day’s a gift. But does it have to be a pair of socks?"

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