laravel
Laravel 13 drops March 17th, and the tech blogs are already flooding with "Complete Guide to ALL New Features" posts. Instead of another exhaustive changelog walkthrough, here's what actually matters for your daily workflow.
ai-productivity
Three months ago, I felt like a productivity superhero. ChatGPT helped me draft emails, GitHub Copilot accelerated my coding, and Claude assisted with research. I was cranking out work faster than ever before. Then something shifted.
mcp
Last week I watched an AI agent book a restaurant, check a calendar for conflicts, draft a confirmation message, and send it all in one go. No Zapier. No n8n. No "connect your accounts" OAuth dance. Just an agent talking to four MCP servers like it was the most normal thing in the world.
I caught myself refreshing Claude Code at 12 AM last Tuesday. Not for work. Not for anything urgent. Just checking if it was back online after a brief outage. That's when I realized I might have a problem. Well, sort of. Calling it a "problem" feels a bit black and white to me. But that moment of...
ai-kids
A kid asked ChatGPT to name the second longest river in Europe. It confidently described one that doesn't exist, complete with kilometers and countries. She copied it straight into her assignment. AI hallucinations hit different when kids can't tell the difference.
laravel
Last Monday, Caleb Porzio launched Blaze at the Laravel Worldwide Meetup. He rendered 25,000 Flux buttons in 6 milliseconds. The same page without Blaze? 1,333 milliseconds.
mcp
Try this: figure out the e-invoicing requirements for sending a B2B invoice from the Netherlands to Italy. Go ahead. I'll wait. You'll end up with 14 browser tabs, three conflicting PDFs from 2019, and a growing suspicion that the EU designed this system specifically to punish
Practical skills for a future where supply is infinite
AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.
And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything
Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.
Developing with craft, clarity & care.
I vibe-coded my own dashboard and it's ugly and perfect
There's a Reddit thread that pops up every few weeks. Someone posts "you can't really rely on AI coding unless you already have a software background." Then someone else replies with a screenshot of their app and says "I made $200 in 8 hours, no coding background."
A recruiter I know told me last month that AI was "not for this industry."
Practical skills for a future where supply is infinite
A resume is a list of places you've been. Not proof of what you can do.
Enterprise CMS vendors are falling behind on AI tooling. A community developer built a better Sitefinity MCP server than the vendor did. Here's what that tells us about the future of enterprise development.
Another month, another round of Expensio changes. This one was mostly about making the app feel faster and less annoying to use on a daily basis.
Stop over-engineering AI features. The Laravel AI SDK lets you add content generation, sentiment analysis, image alt-text, auto-tagging, and a RAG chatbot to any app in one weekend.
AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.
And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything
Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.
Every day I direct AI agents. But this week I discovered a platform where AI agents hire humans. The roles are reversed.