A chatgpt response: One of my favorite recent Laravel features is Laravel Octane. It’s exciting because it takes advantage of high-performance application servers like Swoole and RoadRunner to dramatically speed up request handling. That shift toward long-living applications really changes how you think about performance in PHP apps—it’s not just incremental, it’s a huge leap. Beyond that, I’m also excited about the Laravel ecosystem’s focus on developer experience, especially tools like Pest for testing and Laravel Pint for code style. They make it effortless to keep projects clean and maintainable, which is invaluable on teams. Overall, what excites me most is how Laravel continues to balance developer happiness with serious performance improvements—something not many frameworks pull off this well.

I wonder if applicants understand just how easy it is to see when you use AI to answer a question? We got over 1k applicants to our last job posting, with one open ended question - a couple sentences would be great. I'd estimate about 500 people gave me this answer, almost word for word.

The exceptionally dialled dual crash choke on cymbals that are behind him and out of his view at the very end is really something

Unpopular opinion? The official @laravel.com Inertia starter kits do way, way too much. There should be an option that just comes with Inertia wired up and a blank page.

Looks like an ideal location to me!

Bolt CI Run your Laravel tests alarmingly fast on GitHub Actions.

@nunomaduro.com loved your pest talk - browser testing looks unreal!

We’ve been building boltci.com to get blazing fast Laravel test runs on GitHub Actions. Would love to see how it can integrate with Pest sharding!

Okay I see now I was way behind on episodes and it was not 3 days ago you were talking about this 😂

codex-setup.sh GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@ianlandsman.com if codex still isn't playing nice with php for you, here's my setup script!

gist.github.com/sagalbot/8fc....

I've been loving codex. This gets php, composer, and sqlite setup. Setup runs a little long to setup, but no biggie.

Okay, it's pretty good.

Notion is the most confounding piece of software I've ever tried to wrangle.

I’ll be down there with a couple other folks from Springloaded. Denver is an awesome spot. Hoping to catch a show at the red rocks while I’m down there. Such a sick venue!

Congrats John, looking forward to it!

Did a Washington > Oregon > Cali trip a few years back. Couldn’t agree more!

Turbocharge your Laravel Tests on GitHub Actions We brought a GitHub Actions pipeline with 5,000 PHPUnit tests down from 13 minute to 3 minute runs, and we can do the same for you.

We’ve been cooking up some cool stuff for running your #laravel test suite on GitHub Actions. 13 mins to 3 mins for 5k tests!

springloaded.co/blog/turboch...

Helpers - Laravel 12.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

Have you used Pipelines? Pretty handy for this sort of thing.

laravel.com/docs/12.x/he...

Curious what you’d use this for in practice?

Those heel hooks look so satisfying!

This is amazing, well played!

Looking forward to it!

Ahhh gotchu, gotchu. I stand by my anti-random tirade regardless 🫡

We don’t just apply this to dates anymore either, we generally lean away from randomization in tests, narrowing the scope to values that are very realistic, like a random enum value. In our experience, randomness in tests doesn’t correlate to a more robust app, but it does correlate to flaky tests

It’s almost always daylight savings. We have a couple 4000+ test suites that we maintain and we’ve essentially had to stop randomization of dates. It would inevitably create flaky tests.

Oh you’re gonna get at’d

Full-Stack Laravel Developer - Springloaded Jobs We're hiring a Senior Full-Stack Laravel Developer to help us ship great software on the web.

We have an open spot on the team until end of June. Shoot me a DM if you're interested!

jobs.springloaded.co/feb-2025/ful...

I’m still not convinced it’s not just shredded cheese

I thought it was just grated cheese with a mountain of chili on top

Haha, I see everyone else also has this question

This is next level! What’s the dish on the left?

Freshies? Conditions look awesome!

Is the code for the dashboard open source?

This is why we do a pair programming session as the last step of our interviews @springloaded.co. We’re there as a resource and do our best to take the pressure off and make it collaborative. We mostly just want to see what it might be like to work together.

Attitude > Aptitude.