Stefan Zweifel
@stefanzweifel.dev
Web Developer (Laravel PHP / TailwindCSS) • Maker of many open source things • Minimalist • Hiking in the alps • 🇨🇭🏳️🌈 he/him Part of the crew organizing Laravel meetups in Switzerland (@laravel.swiss). ‣ stefanzweifel.dev
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Ed Grosvenor's June meetup talk is now on YouTube: building MIT-licensed SaaS products on Laravel Cloud, and why recent updates make it a real alternative to Forge. → www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Ev...
Building for Laravel Cloud with Ed Grosvenor
A behind the scenes look at the creation of a suite of MIT licensed SaaS products, designed to run on Laravel Cloud. https://artisan.build/built-for-cloud
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Wrote about how I modernized and streamlined my dotfiles after a recent hardware failure. Also took the time to speed up my shell start-up while introducing a few new tools. stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/0...
Modernizing My Dotfiles
After a hardware failure, I spent a weekend refactoring my decade-old dotfiles: a cleaner structure, a private repo for secrets, and a faster shell.
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Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front on the DC Metro on July 4.
When I proposed this talk, I had only scratched the surface of what Laravel Cloud managed queues unlock. I’m going to have some trouble fitting it all in 30 minutes so I’ll do some follow up content. Make sure you don’t miss this event! luma.com/pxd6emhg
June 2026 Laravel Switzerland Meetup · Luma
Join us at Acuity Analytics in Basel for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. First talk…
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🗓️ Next week! Laravel Meetup Basel — June 24th at Acuity Analytics. Two talks on the bill: → A Laravel dev building in Python with AI agents (Tanja Bräther) → Building MIT-licensed SaaS products for Laravel Cloud (Ed Grosvenor) RSVP: luma.com/pxd6emhg
June 2026 Laravel Switzerland Meetup · Luma
Join us at Acuity Analytics in Basel for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. First talk…
luma.com
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 🚩
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine ft.trib.al/TS7SOJp
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group sued publication over reports that Switzerland rejected its approaches
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If you've been using my "laravel-backup-restore" package in your projects, please upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible. v1.9.4 fixes multiple security vulnerabilities that could affect you, if your dump files have been compromised. github.com/stefanzweife...
GitHub - stefanzweifel/laravel-backup-restore: A package to restore database backups made with spatie/laravel-backup.
A package to restore database backups made with spatie/laravel-backup. - stefanzweifel/laravel-backup-restore
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Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
Tomorrow we're back in Geneva at the Infomaniak offices. Doors open at 18:00. Yves Engetschwiler will share how working with AI daily has changed his workflow — and sometimes challenges your confidence in your own skills. One speaker, good drinks, good company. → RSVP: luma.com/zamie9v5
May 2026 Laravel Switzerland Meetup · Luma
Join us at Infomaniak in Geneva for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. First talk…
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Not gonna lie. This was one of best talks we ever had had our meetups. @gros.co did a fantastic job of distilling the thoughts and fears we probably all have in our heads.
Swiss Laravel Association@laravel.swiss · 2mo ago"You're Not Being Left Behind" — Ed Grosvenor's April talk on why your skills as a developer aren't becoming obsolete. They're growing in value. "The one thing that will definitely survive is deep knowledge of what makes great software." → youtu.be/VJ2_CVgc6Og #Laravel #PHP #WebDev
"You're Not Being Left Behind" — Ed Grosvenor's April talk on why your skills as a developer aren't becoming obsolete. They're growing in value. "The one thing that will definitely survive is deep knowledge of what makes great software." → youtu.be/VJ2_CVgc6Og #Laravel #PHP #WebDev
You're Not Being Left Behind with Ed Grosvenor
There's a lot of noise right now about AI tools, workflows and keeping up. This talk pushes back on that. Fundamental software skills are not becoming obsolete — they're growing in value. Tools…
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💥 just released a github action: `uppt` it aims to be a very simple, secure release workflow for maintainers that adheres to best security practices ⚪ trusted, staged publishing on npmjs.com ⚪ github environment protection ⚪ generated release PR + changelog ⚪ automatic release + publish on merge ✨
One week from now we're returning to Geneva. Our May meetup will be held at the Infomaniak offices. One speaker confirmed — second slot still open. If you or someone you know would like to share what they're working on, reach out to us. → RSVP: luma.com/zamie9v5
My first GitHub pull request conflict...everyone pray for me.
🚀 Here's another new package: Laravel Mobile Pass. 🎫 It can generate Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes from your Laravel app. Boarding passes, tickets, coupons, store cards, loyalty cards, all through a fluent builder.
Back in February, Sandro Gehri introduced DesignOS — a planning toolkit guiding you from product idea to fully-featured vision. No formal design skills required. → Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozX...
Design OS with Sandro Gehri
Kickstart your next project with DesignOS, a planning toolkit that guides you through a structured process from product idea to fully-featured vision. Tired of AI agents going off the rails? Sandro…
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Wrote down how I recently tried to add a "remaining characters count" to a Filament PHP text input. stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/0...
Show Remaining Characters in a Filament Text Input
Learn how to add a remaining characters indicator to a Filament TextInput using Alpine.js, a Blade component, and a circular SVG progress indicator.
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We're happy to welcome Agiledrop as a sponsor! 🎉 They're a Slovenia-based PHP & Laravel agency helping organizations like T-Systems, UNESCO and the European Commission build great software. → www.agiledrop.com Big thanks to them for sponsoring the Laravel community.
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This Wednesday, March 25th, we meet in Zug at Xelon for our Laravel Switzerland meetup. 🎤 Yves — working with AI every day: the honest version 🎤 Serhii — building an OpenClaw alternative with with Laravel 12 & laravel/ai RSVP → luma.com/g2d0758i #Laravel #PHP
March 2026 Laravel Switzerland Meetup · Luma
Join us at Xelon in Zug for our next Laravel Meetup! Enjoy an evening of great talks and good company with fellow Laravel developers. First talk starts at…
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Published my Laracon EU 2026 recap. Lots of great talks this year — highlights for me were Dan Harrin on abstractions, Peter Suhm on unblocking users with AI, and Shane Rosenthal showing NativePHP rendering actual native iOS and Android elements. stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/0...
Laracon EU 2026 Recap
A personal recap of Laracon EU 2026 in Amsterdam — highlights from the best talks on abstractions, AI-assisted UX, NativePHP, code reviews, and shipping to production fast.
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Ich erhalte endlich mein "Adrienne erklärt die Tech-Welt & rantet dazu"-Format... Wenn Dich Big Tech und KI-Regulierung interessiert, sowie den Kampf gegen Überwachungsdystopien, und alles Digitalpolitische... dann gerne hier anmelden 😊 ⬇️ www.republik.ch/format/ctrl
Now that shape() is available in all major browsers, let me remind you that you can use my online generator to create any polygon with ... rounded corners! css-generators.com/polygon-shape/ Adjust the setting, then copy the code.
This was a productive train ride: I finally updated the Lambda Layer powering sidecar-browsershot to Puppeteer v24 and added automation to make maintenance much easier. github.com/stefanzweife... sidecar-browsershot was updated as wel. github.com/stefanzweife...
GitHub - stefanzweifel/sidecar-browsershot-layer: AWS Lambda Layer containing puppeteer-core. Used by sidecar-browsershot
AWS Lambda Layer containing puppeteer-core. Used by sidecar-browsershot - stefanzweifel/sidecar-browsershot-layer
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Stefan Zweifel@stefanzweifel.dev · 5mo agoOn the last leg of my journey home from Laracon EU. Swishing with a train through the south German countryside. Sun slowly setting. World of Warcraft's Westfall theme in my ears. Perfection.
On the last leg of my journey home from Laracon EU. Swishing with a train through the south German countryside. Sun slowly setting. World of Warcraft's Westfall theme in my ears. Perfection.
