✍️ New post: Sticky database connections across requests with Laravel 🍯 Support Laravel's `sticky` option for read write database replicas across different requests. tim.macdonald.au/sticky-datab...

We've had a fair number of requests for Nightwatch setup instructions on Vapor, so we put together a guide to help get you started. Nightwatch 🤝 Vapor nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/guides/...

We just shipped Nightwatch: application monitoring & logging obsessively optimized for Laravel. ✨ Start with a single command 📊 Monitor every event ⏱️ Review precise timelines & logs ⚠️ Hear less noise with smart alerts And much more, including a free plan for anywhere you deploy Laravel apps.

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Wanna shorten imports when using Laravel Wayfinder? Add a custom Vite alias pointing to whatever directory makes sense for your project.

Opened a framework PR to introduce a memoized cache driver. `Cache::memo()->get($key);` github.com/laravel/fram...

I'm fascinated with the data Nightwatch is collecting This new site for a client is eye-opening to not only the quantity of 4xx requests (targeting pre-me routes including `wp-admin`), but also the impact these have on the server's capability 🤯 And this data now drives change for our server mgmt

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How does the laravel team keep cooking this stuff up!? Wayfinder looks amazing!

✍️ Fresh post: Fake expectations A testing fake with named assertions or Pest PHP's expectation API: ¿Por Qué No Los Dos? tim.macdonald.au/fake-expecta...

Laravel Wayfinder integrates perfectly with Inertia, however it also pairs lovely with Axios and the fetch API. ✨✋⛵️

ICYMI

From the galaxy brain of @tim.macdonald.au, with just a dash of Tannenbaum, presenting Laravel Wayfinder. Automatically generate TS functions for your controllers/named routes so you can call your endpoints directly in your client code. Available now in public beta. github.com/laravel/wayf...

Little @tim.macdonald.au x @joe.codes beta package drops tomorrow, I... love this one. And am very excited.

✍️ Mark all files as un-viewed in a GitHub pull request GitHub has a feature to mark individual files as viewed while reviewing a pull request. I wanted the ability to mark _all_ files as un-viewed. tim.macdonald.au/mark-all-fil...

Merged 🫡

Opened a PR to add the `pipe` method to the query builders. Adds the ability to create invokable _action_ scopes to complement tappable scopes. github.com/laravel/fram...

“Because of their excessive reverence for omens, they let the words of others guide them rather than their own intuition, and they creep down alleyways picking up advice from other people’s remarks, thinking with their ears, so to speak, not with their brains.”

Respect to @tim.macdonald.au and the Laravel community for understanding the decision to release breaking changes in a patch and gracefully handling the disruption to their users. And shoutout to other maintainers in the ecosystem for helping their users upgrade and stay safe.

I just published my 27th post. A bit personal and vulnerable, and I really wonder how I'm going to feel about it in the morning, but for now - here it is: www.zuzana-k.com/articles/som...

i just learned that you can set a custom font in Slack by typing “/slackfont <custom font on your system>”! i’m not a roboto mono fan myself but do love monospaced fonts. reference: www.theverge.com/21432669/sla...

Wanna make Slack better? Settings: 1. Appearance > Font = Robot Mono 2. Messages > Theme =Compact 3. Messages > Names = Just display names 4. Messages > Additional options: uncheck “Display information about who is currently typing a message” Give it a week. I don’t even hate Slack anymore.

🍭 Refactoring a callback to a first-class callable? Heck yea. But also… You might be subtly changing behaviour by implicitly passing additional arguments, especially with collection pipelines.

Learnt something new about Laravel today. I always thought Laravel’s `$fallback` value kicked in when a retrieved value was either missing OR `null`. I always thought these two approaches were equivalent. Always learning.

A pattern I’ve been enjoying recently is extracting binding callbacks from Laravel service providers into smaller dedicated factory classes and then replacing the anonymous closure with the factories invoke method. Just want the container to accept `callable` rather requiring `Closure`.

One of the APIs I'm most happy with is in [Gretel](github.com/glhd/gretel) — defining breadcrumbs right next to your routes is *so nice.* Adding a route? Just chain the breadcrumb on. Removing one? Just remove the whole block, and the breadcrumb config is gone, too!

Starting the week with a keycap refresh 💅