🔌 Coming very very soon to Oh Dear: a new ports check. 👀 You say which ports should be open, and we'll check those 💪 We'll also check if all other ports are closed

❤️ Conductor Never made so much nice PRs in such a short timespan 💅 Currently polishing there-there.app using feedback from the first users.

🧑‍💻 I built a little free tool that allows you to quickly check if your website is online. We check it from six locations at once (uses the Oh Dear infrastructure for this).

Spending a bit of time to improve my hobby project WordStockt (wordstockt.com) Now adding support for 3- and 4-player games. Pretty cool you can run multiple concurrent instances of the iOS simulator

🚀 Logging has landed in Flare! 🛬 Your errors now come with the full story around them. Send logs from your Laravel, PHP and JavaScript apps, see them appear in real time. Of course you can filter and search them Here's a look 👇

8️⃣ @freek.bsky.social shares the tech stack behind Spatie's new helpdesk product There There, from Laravel and React to AI features and domain-driven structure. there-there.app/blog/the-sta...

At Oh Dear, we ran into a tricky DNS edge case while improving our monitoring. My colleague Mattias dug into it and wrote up both the problem and how we're addressing it.

A customer replies "thanks!" to a support ticket you just closed... and the ticket reopens. Now someone has to open it, read it, and close it again. A thousand tiny paper cuts across a day. So we taught There There to recognize a thank-you and leave the ticket closed. 🧵 here's how! ⬇️

Switched from Nightwatch to Flare as part of our Europe only strategy! What a great piece of software!!!

💅 It's the little things. Flare will now automatically add quotes to strings in SQL statements in exception messages, so you can easily copy paste them Blogpost: flareapp.io/blog/copy-p... Good work by @rubenvanassche

📊 Ever seen an empty chart in a generated PDF? The capture likely happened before Chart.js finished animating. Here's how to fix that in the latest version laravel-pdf: in your view, set `pdfReady` only after everything has rendered.

Giving some more ❤️ to Laravel PDF github.com/spatie/lara...

🔒 You can now password-protect generated PDFs natively in spatie/laravel-pdf. It uses AES-256 and runs in pure PHP, no external binaries like qpdf are needed. So it'll also work on Laravel Cloud.

😱 One of our Mailcoach clients got hacked. A malicious party got access to his Mailcoach account and started sending spam in the name of our client. Afterwards he wrote a full report on the incident. I love the we could be the silver lining in the whole story.

🐛 Fixing a very subtle little bug. Can you spot the problem?

💡 When building UIs for an integration, I find myself not only giving the build instructions for humans but also a well-crafted prompt. Here's how it looks for Oh Dear's application check.

The last couple of days, I've been playing around with my modular synth a bit. Feels good to step a bit a way from AI / computers in general

When developing There There locally, nobody on our team ever types a password. You just click a button to instantly log in as any kind of user: a trial admin, a pro member, even a fresh user that still needs onboarding.

💅 A nice little touch that we added to @flareapp @OhDearApp and There There: a nice little shortcut (CMD+enter) to easily go from the homepage to the app.

Made something nice over the weekend for Oh Dear. You can now connect your AI to our MCP server via OAuth, powered by Laravel Passport, of course.

🧑‍💻 I'm building There There, an AI-powered helpdesk. Because front end is not my forté, I let AI generate big parts of the Inertia/React frontend. My frontend colleague Séba spent a couple of days reviewing it. His conclusion: locally great, globally drifting

⚡ We just added deep Livewire support to Flare (@calebporzio). If a Livewire page is slow or breaks, you can now see which components ran, where time went, and what happened inside each step.

📦 For those of you that don't know laravel-query-builder yet, here's the quick explanation: it can transform URLs to Eloquent queries. In the example below, you allow specific filters, sorts, and includes. The URL drives the rest. Anything else throws a 400.

Cron jobs fail silently. The backup didn't run, the report didn't generate, nobody noticed. Oh Dear monitors your scheduled tasks for missed and late runs, so you find out before the customer does. ⏰ ohdear.app/features/sc...

Been going back and forth on this for Flare for a couple of days now... Two logs in the current filter. Pin them to the bottom (because that's where new logs land) or to the top (because that's how every table works)? Neither feels obviously right. Both feel slightly wrong 🙃

💅 We the Spatie website a visual refresh Have a look: spatie.be

Need a media conversion that runs right after the HTTP response, without blocking the request and without queue overhead? deferred() just shipped in laravel-medialibrary 11.22.0. Thanks Jamie York (@ziadoz on GitHub) for contributing this feature!

Only 13 open issues and 15 open PRs in total on all public Spatie repos 💪 Will push a bit more to get it to 0 🧑‍💻

🏷️ I've just tagged spatie/laravel-pdf v2.7.0 It includes a new Chrome PHP driver (chrome-php/chrome) for Chromium-grade CSS/JS rendering in PHP. No Node, Puppeteer, Docker, or external API needed, just a Chrome/Chromium binary.

I do like that image 😄

🚀 Scotty 1.4.0, my homegrown ssh taskrunner, is out! Top-level variables in your Scotty.sh file are now evaluated once locally before any task runs. $(date) gives you the same timestamp across every step of your zero-downtime deploy, instead of drifting per task.

🧑‍💻 Prepping a new major version of my laravel-sluggable package. github.com/spatie/lara... I started working on the original release 11 years ago, how time flies

Caveman great. Nice idea. Few word. Less tokens. More money in bank.

The latest version of our spatie/laravel-translatable package supports PHP attributes for declaring translatable columns, matching the many cool features that Laravel 13 introduced.

First episode of my new podcast Still Early dropped today! Would love for you to check it out: stillearly.fm/episodes/why...

We created a little demo site for the Laravel Mobile Pass package where you can generate an Apple Wallet pass. You can install that pass on your own iOS device and push an update through it. mobile-pass-demo.spatie.be (hosted on Laravel ☁️)

🚀 Here's another new package: Laravel Mobile Pass. 🎫 It can generate Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes from your Laravel app. Boarding passes, tickets, coupons, store cards, loyalty cards, all through a fluent builder.

🚨 New package incoming... ⚠️

For the new Flare Laravel packages, we had to test more than isolated pieces. We needed a real HTTP server, a real queue worker, and real payloads flowing end to end.

Doing some late nite work on new package. Surprised no-one tackled this one yet 🙂

What are the best YouTube channels and newsletters for AI development? I like watching people who: ✅ can explain concepts in a clear, calm, friendly way. ✅ are enthusiastic, but also honest/critical at the same time ✅ actually use all of it in their own stuff

We built a fun hackathon project at Spatie: Live at Spatie. It's a small Laravel + React wrapper around Owntone that lets everyone in the office search for songs, add them to one shared queue, see what's playing, and control the music.

Hey non-Big Techies, I’m looking for a way to connect my CalDAV calendar to Le Chat/ Mistral. Ideally it can answer questions about availabilities etc. But I’m not a very technical person so I’m stuck. Any suggestions?

Attach PDFs Directly to Mailables in laravel-pdf 2.6.0 laravel-news.com/attach-pdfs-...

Next to PHP/Laravel exceptions, Flare tracks JavaScript errors too. 💪 Super handy for letting AI fix frontend errors (JS/Vue/React) using the Flare CLI/skill.

Blog post here for anyone curious: rubenvanassche.com/introducing-... A bunch of really nice new features!

Later today, I'll send out edition number 200 🥳 of my newsletter.

laravel-pdf v2.6.0 adds support for using a PdfBuilder directly as a Laravel mail attachment. Build your PDF with `Pdf::view(...)` and pass it straight to `attach($pdf)` in a mail message or notification. There is also a `toMailAttachment()` method on the builder.

🚀 Created a little AI skill to improve the speed of Laravel tests. github.com/freekmurze/...

🪵🪓 Logging is coming to Flare