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The Memory Heist

How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

Modernizing My Dotfiles

After a hardware failure, I spent a weekend refactoring my decade-old dotfiles: a cleaner structure, a private repo for secrets, and a faster shell.

A blog by Alberto Arena

CLAUDE.md Is RAM, Not Disk: A Memory Model for Claude Code Projects

Why a growing CLAUDE.md makes Claude Code worse, and a simple RAM/disk model for structuring your docs instead, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook

A blog by Alberto Arena

We Became Editors-in-Chief, and Nobody Trained Us

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Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding

I moved my AI coding sessions off my laptop and onto a server I reach over Tailscale. Close the lid, pick up on my phone, nothing stops. Here

How I write feature specs

I’m not good at blank canvases. Unfortunately that’s where feature specs always start. When I have a bunch of notes, transcripts, screenshots, and ideas to consolidate on an empty piece of paper, it can be hard to get going and stay in flow. I write specs in three …

Wendell Adriel

PHP Attributes: What, Why, How and When

A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better.

Wendell Adriel

Idempotency: What, Why and How

A deep dive into idempotency, from the theory behind safe retries to a practical Laravel implementation using the Laravel Idempotency package.

Wendell Adriel

Using the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) Pattern in Laravel

Learn what the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) pattern is and how to apply it in Laravel with a simple, practical example.

Flare

Error tracking & performance monitoring for Laravel

From exception to root cause, fast. Flare gives Laravel & PHP teams error tracking, performance monitoring and logging in one place.

spatie.be

How AI is changing (the way I do) UX

I am not the only one who has seen the way they work change drastically over the last 6 months. This post is about how I have seen AI change the ability to generate ideas and code in my field, UX, and how I experience it both in positive and negative ways.

Wendell Adriel

UUIDs, ULIDs and Sqids: A Practical Deep Dive

A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs.

Wendell Adriel

The Laravel Scheduler Under the Hood

A deep dive into the Laravel Scheduler, from event registration and cron evaluation to mutexes, background processes, sub-minute tasks, and production-safe scheduling.

A blog by Alberto Arena

Claude Code Routines: A Third Way Beyond /goal and /loop

Anthropic added routines to Claude Code: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. How they differ from /goal and /loop, and when to reach for each.

spatie.be

Websites & web applications in Laravel & AI

Spatie builds solid websites & web applications in Laravel. With AI, we focus on solutions, not boilerplate. From Antwerp, Belgium

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Run AI in the Browser: A Practical Guide to Transformers.js

Imagine you need to integrate AI into your web app. Let's say you want to quickly translate text. Preferably, you'd like to use something free and open source (you don't want any surprise bills at the end of the month). One...

lukapeharda.com

Leave a failing test before you go on vacation - Luka Peharda - Software engineer

Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off. A failing test, a well-written TODO, and a slow first day back are all you need to ease back in.

A tour of my dotfiles | freek.dev

Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I rely on, and it means I can set up a brand new Mac from scratch in about five minutes. Colleagues at Spatie use it as a starting point for their own setups too. Let me walk you through what's in there. I'll cover the tools and tricks first, with installation and set

The Dutch PHP Conference

Supercharge your PHP apps with Go-powered PHP extensions - The Dutch PHP Conference

Supercharge your PHP apps with Go-powered PHP extensions at The Dutch PHP Conference. Get to know more about Supercharge your PHP apps with Go-powered PHP extensions.

A blog by Alberto Arena

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A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app

spatie.be

How AI is changing (the way I do) UX

I am not the only one who has seen the way they work change drastically over the last 6 months. This post is about how I have seen AI change the ability to generate ideas and code in my field, UX, and how I experience it both in positive and negative ways.

Flare

Your Laravel routes can carry metadata now, and Flare shows it

Laravel added a new way to attach metadata to routes, and Flare now automatically shows it on errors and traces

Flare

Your Laravel routes can carry metadata now, and Flare shows it

Laravel added a new way to attach metadata to routes, and Flare now automatically shows it on errors and traces

juststeveking.com

Building an order fulfilment workflow in Laravel

Build a real order fulfilment workflow in Laravel: signals from webhooks, timeouts, retries, branching, sleep and saga compensation, one step at a time.

GitHub - spatie/laravel-url-ai-transformer: Transform URLs and their content using AI

Transform URLs and their content using AI. Contribute to spatie/laravel-url-ai-transformer development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub - spatie/laravel-http-logger: Log HTTP requests in Laravel applications

Log HTTP requests in Laravel applications. Contribute to spatie/laravel-http-logger development by creating an account on GitHub.