Run AI in the Browser: A Practical Guide to Transformers.js

Imagine you need to integrate AI into your web app. Let's say you want to quickly translate text. Preferably, you'd like to use something free and open source (you don't want any surprise bills at the...

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Build Your Own AI-Powered Slack Bot with the Laravel AI SDK

At Tighten, we use Slack for all our internal communication. It's where we chat, share ideas, and keep everyone up to date. And today, with AI becoming increasingly present in our workflows, the quest...

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How Will LLMs Transform Us? AI as a Tool in the Future of Development

AI is a tool. Revolutionary. Generational. But a tool nonetheless. And a tool is only as effective as a human is at using it. We’ve been learning to use AI as a tool for a while now, and we’re even.....

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How to Expertly Use LLMs in Development Workflows

Imagine: You’re about to board a commercial flight. Directly ahead of you in line, you learn, is the person who engineered this very model of plane. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art technology!, th...

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Why Developers Should – and Shouldn’t – Use LLMs in Our Development

“Why should I use AI?” Ask our AI pundits this question, and you’ll get the same answer (with drastically...

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What Even Is “AI”? Defining Key Terms in Plain Language

You might be wondering, “How are we three years into the hype and still asking something as basic as ‘What even is AI?’” Well, as we established in the...

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A Pragmatic Look at AI and LLMs in Software Development Workflows

By now, every dev (and business leader) feels some type of way about AI. How could we not? Every time you open the news, listen to a podcast, or visit your favorite social media site, you're hearing....

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Under the Hood: How Blaze Speeds Up Blade Templates

If you attended Laracon US this year, or if you're big into Livewire, you might already have heard about Blaze. Blaze is a new drop-in package...

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Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK

Have you ever wished you could just ask your documents a question and get an answer? That's exactly what RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) lets you do. It's the technique behind those AI chatbots.....

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Introduction to Delegated Types

What if you could build richer hierarchies, add shared behavior across models, and make your data immutable while retaining historical data—all without Event Sourcing or graph databases? Delegated Typ...

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New in Parental v1.5.0: Becoming, Integers, and Eager-Loading

Parental v1.5.0 introduces three new features for Single Table Inheritance in Laravel: types can now transition to other types with the become() method, you can use integer columns instead of strings,...

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Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas

AI is everywhere. It can create songs, build entire apps, and even drive our cars. But... can it play Pictionary? We're about to find out. Today, we're building an AI-powered drawing guessing game. I...

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Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel

Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move! You can integrate...

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17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed

JavaScript: the language many love to hate. Yeah, we've all seen the memes about its quirks and limitations. Maybe that's why we slap a whole typing system on top of it. And add one, two, or... ten th...

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Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP

Do you remember your first interaction with a computer? Perhaps it was through a command-line interface, where typing commands allowed the machine to perform the desired actions. A few years later, gr...

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Tighten Laracon 2025 Game Jam

Vibe code your way to the high score!

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Introducing Rich Text Laravel - Part 2: User Mentions With Content Attachments

In our previous Rich Text post, we implemented file attachments using the Rich Text Laravel package, but we've only touched...

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10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database

Seeders allow us to quickly fill our database with records to test our application. Let's say that you need a couple of users to test your authentication system—you could create them manually using yo...

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Five Practical Tips to Improve Search in Laravel Apps With Typesense

Typesense is making waves in the search landscape. Since its inclusion as an officially supported driver for Laravel Scout,...

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Introducing Rich Text Laravel: A package to integrate Trix into Laravel applications

When we build forms for an application, it's common to need a field where a plain textarea isn't enough. So how do we proceed? We could process it on the backend and treat the input as Markdown, but t...

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Filament Crash-Course: Create a Customizable Admin Panel in Minutes

In most applications, administrators need a way to manage data. Whether it's a blog's articles and comments, a store's products and orders, or a theater's events and tickets, admins need a place to li...

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New: Install Takeout with Docker

Takeout is a convenient layer on top of Docker that lets you quickly spin up services without looking up the images and how to run them. Need a Redis service locally?...

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Getting Started with Twill, an Open Source Laravel-Based CMS

Learn how companies like OpenAI, The New York Times, Pentagram, and the Art Institute of Chicago manage their brand identity when publishing content online.

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Matt Stauffer - What to do after `laravel new` - Laracon AU 2024

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