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CPX 2.0: An npx-Style Executor for Composer Packages

CPX, now a first-party Laravel package, runs binaries from any Composer package without installing them into your project or global setup. Version 2.0 prefers local project binaries, replaces built-in shortcuts with user…

Laravel News · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Inertia DevTools Extension Arrives on the Chrome Web Store

The Inertia DevTools extension is now listed on the Chrome Web Store. It adds an Inertia panel to Chrome DevTools that records every visit, groups related requests, and shows props, headers, routes, and page state. Recor…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Queue-SQL Package Splits Large Laravel Updates and Deletes into Parallel Queue Jobs

Queue-SQL, a Laravel package by Kamran Atayev, breaks massive UPDATE and DELETE statements into key-range slices processed as parallel queued jobs via Laravel's native batching. It offers a queue() query builder macro, C…

Laravel News · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Laravel AI SDK v0.10.0 Introduces Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval

Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK now lets agents pause before executing sensitive tools so a human can approve, reject, or edit the call. The opt-in feature ships in v0.10.0 with approval contracts, decis…

Laravel News · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Laravel Pint 1.30 Adds Blade Template Formatting via Prettier

Laravel Pint 1.30.0 introduces opt-in formatting of Blade templates through a new --blade flag, powered by Prettier and dedicated Blade and Tailwind plugins. The release also fixes --diff rename handling, redirects --qui…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Pest 5 arrives with Test Impact Analysis, AI agent tooling, and eval support

Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The release brings a Test Impact Analysis engine that cut Laravel Cloud's 19,000-test suite from 3 minutes to 5 seconds, plus plugins for AI agent verification, LLM evals,…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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GitHub Opens Public Preview of Stacked Pull Requests

GitHub has launched stacked pull requests in public preview. The feature splits large changes into an ordered series of small, focused pull requests, making reviews easier. Developers can create and manage dependent PR c…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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A Talk on Saturation: Why Software Breaks When It Scales

A video talk making the rounds on Lobsters tackles saturation: the point where your software stops degrading gracefully and simply fails. The historical-tagged submission promises a look at how systems behave — and colla…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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JoliCode builds an experimental PHP virtual machine in Rust, accelerated by AI

Joël Wurtz of JoliCode describes building rphp, an experimental PHP virtual machine written in Rust with heavy assistance from LLMs. In about a month the project reached roughly 80% of basic compatibility tests, and its …

Lobsters /t/ai · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Twelve Years of 364-Day Years in the .NET TimeSpan Comment

A reader combing the .NET reference source found that the TimeSpan struct's documentation comment claims a year can have 365 or 364 days and a decade up to three leap years. The typo has survived untouched since the init…

The Daily WTF · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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How AT&T handed Internet Explorer its first big default slot, 30 years ago

In July 1996, AT&T made Internet Explorer 3 the default browser of its WorldNet internet service, bundled into Windows 95. Former AT&T VP Tom Evslin now says price decided it: Microsoft practically gave IE away, while Ne…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Update pop-up crashes the party at Brighton beach gig

During July's On The Beach festival in Brighton, an update dialog photobombed the giant stage screen mid-set, offering the crowd a choice between 'Remind me later' and 'Install updates' while David Rodigan played on, her…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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A Code Comment That Simply Does Something Wonderful

The Daily WTF spotlights a doc comment found by reader Mark W. in an otherwise solid 100,000-line codebase: a function whose entire XML documentation reads "Does something wonderful." A small gem of unhelpful documentati…

The Daily WTF · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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NLP chews through 3,700 dream diaries and declares your sleeping brain a remix artist

Italian researchers fed over 3,700 dream and waking-life reports from 287 adults into NLP models. The verdict: dreams don't replay your day, they mash it up — and COVID lockdown dreams were measurably grimmer. Your 3 a.m…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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The WPF Value Converter That Converts Nothing, Backwards

The Daily WTF dissects a WPF IValueConverter whose Convert method does nothing and whose ConvertBack maps empty text-box strings to null for a double? field. The author's verdict: the API is awkward, the implementation w…

The Daily WTF · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Colossus, the WWII Codebreaking Computer, Receives IEEE Milestone Honor

IEEE is honoring Colossus, the first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, with a Milestone plaque at Bletchley Park. Built in 1944 by Tommy Flowers, it cracked Germany's Lorenz cipher and is credited wit…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Backus, von Neumann, and Dijkstra: the FP story gets a home

A new archival project from Paul McJones's Software Preservation Group collects surviving materials from John Backus's two-decade functional programming project — from the 1969 RedSys sketches to the FP84 language — incl…

Lobsters /t/historical · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Six Flags kiosk demands custom app install while roller coaster runs fine

A Register reader photographed a malfunctioning information kiosk at a Six Flags park in San Antonio, its fluid-streaked screen stuck on an error demanding installation of a custom app via an invalid URL. The rides nearb…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Someone Set Flock Surveillance Cameras on Fire, and Georgia Police Would Like a Word

Two Flock Safety license-plate readers near Albany, Georgia, were set ablaze, and police are treating it as arson. The incidents land amid a growing national backlash against the ALPR network — featuring canceled contrac…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Error'd: 2D Star Ratings, Template-Variable Invoices and Other Glitches

The Daily WTF's Error'd column rounds up reader-submitted fails: inflated Amazon billing emails, a form field that is simultaneously optional and required, a roof-cleaning site with a two-dimensional 5-star rating grid, …

The Daily WTF · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

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UK eyes marketplace tax squeeze to fund pub business-rate relief

The UK government plans a 20 percent business rates cut for pubs, clubs and live music venues from April 2027, worth around £100 million a year. To pay for it, ministers want online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Etsy a…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Tesla's spending doubles as Musk chases AI chips and humanoid robots

Tesla's Q2 capital expenditure jumped from $2.5 billion to $5.8 billion, leaving negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion. Musk touted the Austin 'Terafab' chip plant as vital for scaling the Optimus robot, while vehicle …

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Hands-on Walkthrough of Laravel's New Illuminate\Image API

Laravel News breaks down the Illuminate\Image component added in Laravel 13.20 (PR #59276), showing how to resize, crop, convert formats, apply effects, and store results using the fluent, immutable API — with worked exa…

Laravel News · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Old phones get a second life as browser-based smart displays

German developer Tuan Anh Bui built ScreenWall, a free beta web platform that turns spare phones, tablets or monitors into wall displays for clocks, weather, status boards or signage via QR-code pairing and the Screen Wa…

The Register (Offbeat) · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

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New Open-Source Package Tackles SSRF in Laravel Beyond Simple IP Blocklists

A community link shared on freek.dev points to laravel-ssrf, a new open-source package the author built after finding no solid SSRF-prevention library for Laravel. The approach and test suite are grounded in a USENIX Sec…

freek.dev · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Laravel 13.21 Adds RouteKey Attribute and Broader Image Format Support

Laravel 13.21, released July 21, 2026 alongside patch 13.21.1, adds a #[RouteKey] attribute for declarative route model binding, a base64 validation rule, and a #[RequestAttribute] contextual attribute for injecting requ…

Laravel News · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Notion engineers detail two-year overhaul of vector search behind Notion AI Q&A

A Notion engineering blog post traces how the team scaled Notion AI's vector search 10x while cutting costs 90% since the November 2023 Q&A launch, covering sharding fixes, a turbopuffer migration, incremental re-indexin…

Lobsters /t/ai · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Study Finds Popular 30-Second Cache Keepalive Wastes Money on Most LLM Providers

Maxim Khailo measured prompt-cache keepalive pings across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and DeepSeek. The common 30-second ping convention costs 8x more than needed; a ~4-minute interval is optimal. At a 10-minute idle gap, …

Lobsters /t/ai · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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The Case Against Storing Secrets in Environment Variables

A developer explains why they load secrets through application code instead of environment variables, citing a unified config format, an AWS ECS incident where env vars leaked in the console, disk-encryption safeguards, …

r/programming (Top) · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP Foundation Debuts Quarterly Core Team Report, Covers Q2 2026

The PHP Foundation launched a new quarterly report format detailing its 13 core contractors' work: engine bug fixes, new streaming/TLS APIs, Windows toolchain upgrades ahead of PHP 8.6, an accepted URI RFC, a fresh Ecosy…

The PHP Foundation · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke