Punyapal Shah
@mrpunyapal.dev
Laravel Engineer. Open Source Maintainer. Core Team @ Pinkary & Pest. Founder @ Laravel Artisans. Sharing code, ideas & lessons learned.
Laravel devs, Laravel 13.24 adds a new array_keys validation rule. 👀 If you've ever written custom validation just to check array keys, this one is for you. A small addition, but it makes validating configuration arrays and structured payloads much cleaner.
Do yoh remember Laravel Splade 👀 It disappeared like it never existed.
Laravel devs using PostgreSQL, Laravel 13.23 adds support for PostgreSQL's USING clause in migrations. 👀 Need to convert a text column like 2026-08-02 into a DATE column? PostgreSQL requires a USING clause to define how existing values should be cast. Laravel now supports this with ->using().
Laravel devs using PostgreSQL, Laravel 13.23 adds support for PostgreSQL's USING clause in migrations. 👀 Need to convert a text column like 2026-08-02 into a DATE column? PostgreSQL requires a USING clause to define how existing values should be cast. Laravel now supports this with ->using().
Laravel devs, if you know any cool features that are not documented (ex. `withAggregate`) feel free to contribute to it 👇 github.com/MrPunyapal/l...
GitHub - MrPunyapal/laravel-undocumented: List of features not documented by laravel.
List of features not documented by laravel. Contribute to MrPunyapal/laravel-undocumented development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Laravel devs, queue:clear got a small but useful improvement in Laravel 13.22. 👀 You can now clear multiple queues in a single command using a comma-separated list. One less thing to repeat.
My site initially started as just one page with one paragraph, my photo, and my socials. But now it has talks, a resume, projects, and open-source pages. For the past few days, I've been working hard on collecting and adding stuff, fixing many things. And now I think it's fully loaded.
Punyapal Shah | Laravel Engineer & Open Source Maintainer
Laravel Engineer and open source maintainer. Core Team at Pest and Pinkary, founder of Laravel Artisans, speaker, and technical content creator.
mrpunyapal.dev
Laravel devs, your email:dns validation tests don't need to rely on real DNS anymore. 👀 Laravel 13.22 added support for faking DNS lookups during validation. You can define exactly what DNS records should be returned and keep your tests predictable without external DNS requests.
Laravel devs, Laravel 13.23 adds a new monthly log driver. 👀 Instead of creating a new log file every day, you can now keep one log file per month. You can also control how many monthly log files are retained with max_files. A nice option for apps that don't need daily log rotation.
Pest 5 TIP: You can enable the TIA plugin by default, so you don't need to brag to AI about adding the --tia flag to your commands. And yeah, this can be a good setup for your pest.php in your Laravel project.
Got a shoutout at Laracon US! 🫶 I hope you'll find the new PHPStan and Rector plugins for Pest useful. These are plugins I wanted myself badly, and now, after 100k+ downloads each, they've found a new home in Pest 5. ❤️ Moments like this make open source worth it. Thank you, @nunomaduro.com. 🫶
Laravel devs, another new attribute is coming in Laravel 13.22. 👀 #[BindWhen] lets you conditionally bind implementations using a closure. The closure receives the container, so your condition can depend on configuration, feature flags, or anything resolvable at runtime. Note: Requires PHP 8.5.
PHP devs, how do you build documentation once your README isn't enough? 👀 I got tired of rebuilding documentation websites for every open source project. So I built DocSmith. 👇 Repository in the first reply.
Laravel devs, here's a helper you might not know about. 👀 Str::transliterate() converts Unicode characters to their closest ASCII equivalent. Great for uploaded filenames, search normalization, and ASCII-only systems. One of those helpers that's easy to overlook.
LOL, I thought it was only me, but ChatGPT is down for everyone. Sorry, guys, I was the reason 🤣🤣
Punyapal Shah@mrpunyapal.dev · 2w agoChatGPT always suggests new things after it outputs to us, so I asked it to create a loop, and dang, it got hung 😁😁
ChatGPT always suggests new things after it outputs to us, so I asked it to create a loop, and dang, it got hung 😁😁
Laravel 13.21 adds a built-in base64 validation rule. No more custom validation logic just to verify a Base64-encoded value. One less custom rule to maintain. 👌
Laravel Attribute list directory now has before-after diffs and the version they introduced for attributes.
One more attribute for Laravel's attribute lovers. 👀 Laravel 13.21 introduces #[RouteKey]. If you're only overriding getRouteKeyName() to return a column like slug, you can now replace the entire method with a single attribute. A nice little quality-of-life improvement.
New in Laravel 13.21: #[RequestAttribute] The request attributes bag is perfect for data you've already resolved during the current request. For example, if middleware has already loaded the current tenant, there's no reason to hit the database again later.
Most Laravel developers know unique(). But did you know Collections also have duplicates()? One thing that surprised me is how it works. If a value appears 3 times, it will be returned twice. Every occurrence after the first is considered a duplicate.
Most Laravel developers know pipe(). Far fewer know about pipeThrough(). Instead of one transformation, you can pass your collection through multiple reusable callables, keeping each step small, focused, and easy to test. Have you ever used it?
