Good news if you're on an older stack: Flare now supports Laravel 10 and PHP 8.1 again. You no longer have to be on the latest versions to get the newest Flare features like performance monitoring and logging. Read how we brought support back: flareapp.io/blog/bringi...

Bringing Flare back to Laravel 10 and PHP 8.1 | Flare

Flare now supports Laravel 10 and PHP 8.1 again, so older apps get performance monitoring and logs too. Here’s how we did it.

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Unlike a GET HTTP request, a QUERY request carries a request body. Our spatie/laravel-http-logger can be handy for logging super important requests that you can't afford to lose. QUERY requests now get logged by default too. github.com/spatie/lara...

GitHub - spatie/laravel-http-logger: Log HTTP requests in Laravel applications

Log HTTP requests in Laravel applications. Contribute to spatie/laravel-http-logger development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🚀 We've just published v2 of our laravel-url-ai-transformer, our package that transforms URLs and their content using AI, and stores the result in the db ⬇️ The new version is rebuilt on top of the official laravel/ai package. Here's a small tour

💭 My colleague designer Jimi shares some interesting thoughts on how AI is changing the way he does UX spatie.be/blog/how-ai...

How AI is changing (the way I do) UX

I am not the only one who has seen the way they work change drastically over the last 6 months. This post is about how I have seen AI change the ability to generate ideas and code in my field, UX, and how I experience it both in positive and negative ways.

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Laravel recently added route metadata. You can attach arbitrary context to a route and read it back later. Route::get('/users', [UserController::class, 'index']) ->metadata(['head' => ['title' => 'Users']]); $request->route()->getMetadata('head.title');

We just shipped “waiting until” in There There. It automatically reopens tickets from “waiting” to “open”, basic helpdesk stuff. Simple feature, but the time picker took three tries. v1 was the obvious preset list. 🧵

🌉 Has anyone here already tried macOS Golden Gate? If you’ve actually been using it, how’s the stability so far? Smooth enough for daily use, or are you still running into issues? (Looking for firsthand experiences only, not general “don’t install beta” advice)

🥳 Our spatie/laravel-permission package has reached 100 million downloads. Guess you all like this one!

🥳 Guess I can keep using my dream workflow using Conductor a little while longer

I'd like to highlight a package I reach for on almost every project: spatie/laravel-model-flags. Add the HasFlags trait and you get idempotent flags: run an action once per model, even when the job around it keeps firing. flag() never duplicates, it only bumps the timestamp 🚩

🔌 Coming very very soon to Oh Dear: a new ports check. 👀 You say which ports should be open, and we'll check those 💪 We'll also check if all other ports are closed

❤️ Conductor Never made so much nice PRs in such a short timespan 💅 Currently polishing there-there.app using feedback from the first users.

🧑‍💻 I built a little free tool that allows you to quickly check if your website is online. We check it from six locations at once (uses the Oh Dear infrastructure for this).

Spending a bit of time to improve my hobby project WordStockt (wordstockt.com) Now adding support for 3- and 4-player games. Pretty cool you can run multiple concurrent instances of the iOS simulator

🚀 Logging has landed in Flare! 🛬 Your errors now come with the full story around them. Send logs from your Laravel, PHP and JavaScript apps, see them appear in real time. Of course you can filter and search them Here's a look 👇

8️⃣ @freek.bsky.social shares the tech stack behind Spatie's new helpdesk product There There, from Laravel and React to AI features and domain-driven structure. there-there.app/blog/the-sta...

The stack behind There There | There There

A tour of the technology we used to build There There, and why we reached for the boring choices on purpose.

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At Oh Dear, we ran into a tricky DNS edge case while improving our monitoring. My colleague Mattias dug into it and wrote up both the problem and how we're addressing it.

A customer replies "thanks!" to a support ticket you just closed... and the ticket reopens. Now someone has to open it, read it, and close it again. A thousand tiny paper cuts across a day. So we taught There There to recognize a thank-you and leave the ticket closed. 🧵 here's how! ⬇️

Switched from Nightwatch to Flare as part of our Europe only strategy! What a great piece of software!!!

💅 It's the little things. Flare will now automatically add quotes to strings in SQL statements in exception messages, so you can easily copy paste them Blogpost: flareapp.io/blog/copy-p... Good work by @rubenvanassche

📊 Ever seen an empty chart in a generated PDF? The capture likely happened before Chart.js finished animating. Here's how to fix that in the latest version laravel-pdf: in your view, set `pdfReady` only after everything has rendered.

Giving some more ❤️ to Laravel PDF github.com/spatie/lara...

Add readiness waiting and render caching by freekmurze · Pull Request #345 · spatie/laravel-pdf

This PR adds two features inspired by gaps relative to other Chromium-based PDF packages. Waiting for readiness JavaScript heavy views (charts, maps, web fonts, async data) can be captured before t...

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🔒 You can now password-protect generated PDFs natively in spatie/laravel-pdf. It uses AES-256 and runs in pure PHP, no external binaries like qpdf are needed. So it'll also work on Laravel Cloud.

😱 One of our Mailcoach clients got hacked. A malicious party got access to his Mailcoach account and started sending spam in the name of our client. Afterwards he wrote a full report on the incident. I love the we could be the silver lining in the whole story.

🐛 Fixing a very subtle little bug. Can you spot the problem?

💡 When building UIs for an integration, I find myself not only giving the build instructions for humans but also a well-crafted prompt. Here's how it looks for Oh Dear's application check.

The last couple of days, I've been playing around with my modular synth a bit. Feels good to step a bit a way from AI / computers in general

When developing There There locally, nobody on our team ever types a password. You just click a button to instantly log in as any kind of user: a trial admin, a pro member, even a fresh user that still needs onboarding.

💅 A nice little touch that we added to @flareapp @OhDearApp and There There: a nice little shortcut (CMD+enter) to easily go from the homepage to the app.

Made something nice over the weekend for Oh Dear. You can now connect your AI to our MCP server via OAuth, powered by Laravel Passport, of course.