like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

GitHub - dynamik-dev/bully Contribute to dynamik-dev/bully development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is Bully, my agent native lint tool. The enforcer arm for my CLAUDE file. It’s a more polished version of a workflow I’ve been using.

It can use either custom bash checks, your own native linters, or semantic.

Use only when quality matters more than tokens.

github.com/dynamik-dev/...

Integrating Community Feedback into Foundation Strategy Part 1 The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Our Executive Director, Elizabeth Barron, has been listening to your feedback about the PHP ecosystem to help inform The PHP Foundation's 2026-2027 strategy. She shares what she's learned in our latest blog post. Exciting opportunities await! ✨ 🚀 thephp.foundation/blog/2026/04...
#php #phpcommunity

just released pest v4.6.1; up to 30% faster boot times before your test suite runs (measured on laravel cloud); if you pass --filter or a test file, --update-snapshots now only updates the snapshots that match

The DOJ just asked a federal appeals court to throw out the convictions of 12 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who were found guilty of crimes connected to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Fancy copying me and strolling around the 10 Downing Street garden? Enter the ballot for a free tour here:
londongardenstrust.org/whatson/lond...

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.

pest v4.5 is out

you can now mark tests as flaky - pest will retry them automatically before reporting a failure

you may also use --flaky just to run the flaky ones

Inflation has tripled from just one month ago, and it’s higher than when he took office. Not only has Trump failed to deliver on his central campaign promise to make life more affordable - he is actively, directly driving prices up.

I've just made a PR to Laravel! ⚡

It proposes a new "Via" attribute which could be added to notification classes.

It can be used to define hardcoded notification channels without requiring a "via" method.

Is this something you'd use if it were merged? 😄

Laravel native IAM-style roles and policies right in your app.

This is a package I’ve been working on for the past two months and it finally feels solid enough to share.

github.com/dynamik-dev/...

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I was reading this blog post about how package managers are evil. I don't really agree on the "evil" part because package managers do solve a problem that would be very hard to deal with manually. That being said, I was curious enough to do a little experiment.

stitcher.io/blog/depende...

Log User Activity in Your Laravel App with Activity Log v5 - Laravel News Laravel Activitylog v5 drops support for PHP < 8.4 and Laravel < 12, introduces a HasActivity trait, activity buffering for bulk inserts, and renames several methods for consistency.

Log User Activity in Your Laravel App with Activity Log v5 laravel-news.com/log-user-act...

Meet Maestro: How We Manage 21 Laravel Starter Kit Variants | Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents Learn how Maestro solves the challenge of maintaining 21 Laravel starter kit variants across 8 repositories, using layered builds, priority-based sync, and a contributor workflow designed to scale.

Did you know:

We are managing 21 variants of our Laravel starter kits 😵‍💫

That's a lot! And there's a good amount of overlap between the kits.

Internally, we've been using a new tool to manage all of them, and now it's public for all contributors:

laravel.com/blog/meet-ma...

PHP Community Chat Join us in one of the PHP Community chat channels!

We now have a Foundation channel on the phpc Discord to make it easier to interact with us 🎉 This was a collaborative effort with the phpc mods, as we didn't want to potentially further fragment any community channels.

You can find a link to the phpc Discord here phpc.chat. Come say hi!
#phpc #php

Introducing PAO: Agent-Optimized Output for PHP Testing Tools YouTube video by nunomaduro

Introducing PAO: Agent-Optimized Output for PHP Testing Tools. ✅ It works with any PHP project: Laravel, Symfony, Laminas, vanilla PHP, or anything else that uses PHPUnit, Pest, or ParaTest. Just run composer require, and you're done. ✨ youtu.be/aOA1m9dFEww?...

Guess the cat is out of the bag!

I've been writing PHP since the late 90's, and its growth as a language has paralleled mine as a developer.

I'm happy and honored to be able to be a part of a group of people working to continue advancing the language so many of us depend on!

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms.

You have to listen to this.

Republicans could literally fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard right now.

But once again, they’re choosing Donald Trump over the American people.

Absolutely shameful.

We just released v5 of laravel-activitylog, our package for logging user activity and model events in Laravel.

We use it in Flare, Mailcoach, and Oh Dear to build audit logs: who changed a setting, who deleted a project, who invited a team member.

Here's what's new in v5. 🧵

Tell me how your Ai coding is going with out telling me.

🤔

FFIEC Append Updated to 2025 Dataset - Geocodio Geocodio’s FFIEC data append now returns data from the 2025 FFIEC flat file.

Our FFIEC data append now returns 2025 data: updated median family incomes, income levels, CRA distressed/underserved criteria, and Census boundaries. Applies automatically to API and spreadsheet uploads.

Details: www.geocod.io/updates/2026...

WELP

fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...

Why does the building remind me of a building from Severance LOL

An image of Vault Boy dressed as a leprechaun, spilling over a pot filled with bottle caps, Nuka-Colas, and more, surrounded by clovers.

It's St. Patrick's Day in the Vault 🍀

For one more day in #Fallout Shelter, enjoy discounts on all bundles, and play the When Irish Eyes are Glowing questline until March 27!

Laravel 13 is here. This update focuses on AI-native workflows, stronger defaults, and more expressive developer APIs.

If you're running Laravel 12 or higher you can run /upgrade in Laravel Boost and have your agent upgrade your app for you.

Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal Internal memos ignored Covid safety studies and pushed vaccine changes based on ideology, critics say

There was scant data behind ending the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children, according to internal memos made public because of a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services

GitHub - spatie/laravel-bluesky-notification-channel: Bluesky notification channel for the Laravel framework Bluesky notification channel for the Laravel framework - spatie/laravel-bluesky-notification-channel

Testing the spatie/laravel-bluesky-notification-channel package 🚀 github.com/spatie/laravel-bluesky-n...