Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript

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Laravel Serializable Closure: serialize the unserializable

Link – Jul 16th 2025

PHP doesn’t let you serialize closures, but Laravel does, thanks to an underrated package that’s built into the framework.

Deploying Inertia Vue SSR to Cloudflare Workers: From Traditional Node.js to Global Edge

Link – Jul 15th 2025 – geisi.dev - submitted by Tim Geisendörfer

Learn how to deploy your Inertia Vue SSR worker to the Cloudflare Workers platform without breaking a sweat.

Introducing spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client

Original – Jul 15th 2025 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We just tagged stable release for two new spatie packages: spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client. In this blogpost, I'd like to share why these were developed and how you can use them.

Running Claude Code with a Local LLM: A Step-by-Step Guide

Link – Jul 14th 2025 – www.shawnmayzes.com

Even though I use Claude Code, I haven't used local models. It seems very convenient to be able to use Claude Code without an internet connection.

Stop Ignoring Important Returns with PHP 8.5’s `#[\NoDiscard]` Attribute

Link – Jul 11th 2025 – www.amitmerchant.com

The #[\NoDiscard] is a safety feature for PHP developers, making it easier to catch mistakes where ignoring a function’s return value could lead to bugs.

The work is never just “the work”

Link – Jul 10th 2025 – davestewart.co.uk

A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation

Continuous AI in software engineering

Link – Jul 9th 2025 – www.seangoedecke.com

Continuous AI in software engineering involves integrating AI tooling automatically into existing development flows, such as automated PR reviews, issue labeling, and daily summaries.

The Grug Brained Developer

Link – Jul 8th 2025 – grugbrain.dev

say: complexity very, very bad

Git Notes: Git's Coolest, Most Unloved Feature

Link – Jul 7th 2025 – tylercipriani.com

Git notes are a powerful feature for adding metadata to commits, blobs, and trees.

Exploring Coroutines in PHP

Link – Jul 4th 2025 – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg

The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers.

Recreating Laravel Cloud’s range input with native HTML

Link – Jul 3rd 2025 – phare.io - submitted by Nicolas Beauvais

Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.

PHP version stats (June 2025 edition)

Link – Jun 19th 2025 – stitcher.io

Brent is back with another update on the usage of PHP versions.

Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases

Original – Jun 18th 2025 – ohdear.app

In this post, I'll share how I'm using PHPStan's type aliases feature to make validation rule typehints more readable and maintainable in our Laravel application.

Choosing where to spend my team’s effort

Link – Jun 17th 2025 – frederickvanbrabant.com - submitted by Frederick Vanbrabant

It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.

Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

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