We're wrapping up our five-part AI series with a look into the future. What's the future of AI? The future of AI-assisted development? The future of our humanity, in a world where AI is everywhere? tighten.com/insights/pra...

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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Most advice about using AI in your dev workflows comes down to specific tools. Which agent? Do you wiggum? Let's slow down a bit, and talk about the difference between vibe coding and agentic coding, and what a healthy integration of AI looks like. tighten.com/insights/pra...

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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We all know some folks who only consider reasons *not* to use AI, and others who can't consider any reasons *to* use AI. In the third post in our AI series, we talk about reasons devs *should* and *shouldn't* add AI as a part of their dev workflows. tighten.com/insights/pra...

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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We talk about "AI" casually, assuming it means the same thing to everyone. But it doesn't. Did you know "Artificial Intelligence" was originally just a marketing term? In the second post in our AI series, we talk about definition of common AI terms. tighten.com/insights/pra...

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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Have you ever stopped to think what we mean when we say "AI", how to use it *well* in development workflows, or what motivates us to use them or not use them? We paused for a moment, stepped back, examined, and wrote up some thoughts you might enjoy. tighten.com/insights/pra...

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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You may have heard of Blaze, the new tool from the Laravel Livewire team that speeds up Blade. But did you know how it works? From folding to function compilation, we break down its optimization strategies, and even build a mini version to understand it. tighten.com/insights/bla...

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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Want to use AI to chat with your own documents? At scale, it’s harder than it sounds. Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to build a chatbot using the new Laravel AI SDK, Postgres, and Livewire 4 🤖 Learn RAG and semantic search from scratch 👇 tighten.com/insights/cha...

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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Polymorphic relations are great, but complexity grows with each shared behavior. Delegated types flip this on its head, building a first-class entity for shared behavior! Fewer entry points, less repetition, cleaner design. @tonysm.com wrote about it here: tighten.com/insights/del...

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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Parental, our Single-Table-Inheritance package, has a new release: v1.5.0! 👇 • Models can now transition from one child type to another, with become() • You can store child type as integers instead of strings • Eager loading children is even easier than ever tighten.com/insights/new...

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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Is AI good at Pictionary? In our latest post, we build a Laravel app to test—using Prism by @tjmiller.bsky.social to connect with our AI provider in a snap. And it supports images, too! We'll capture an image using HTML canvas and then send it off to the AI. tighten.com/insights/bui...

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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Do you need AI in your app but can’t share private data with AI providers? You can self host and run models on your own servers thanks to Ollama 🦙 Join @nicodevs.bsky.social set it up & integrate it with your Laravel app, building a chat for super spies (TOP SECRET!) 👇 tighten.com/insights/bui...

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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Every year, JavaScript brings new features that save us from relying on heavy libraries. From formatting dates to cloning objects, discover some of these handy additions in today's article.👇 tighten.com/insights/new...

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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If you want AI agents to be able to interact with your Laravel app, but you're not sure where to start, check out @mateusjunges.com’ post around the magic and efficiency of adding an MCP to your Laravel app today. 👇 tighten.com/insights/let...

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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🎮 Get your game on, Laracon US attendees! Play the @tighten.com Laracon 2025 Game Jam game.tighten.com Vibe code your way to the high score, and 🏆 win a Nintendo Switch 2! 🏆

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Today on the blog, @tonysm.com continues the Rich Text Laravel series and demonstrates how flexible Content Attachments are! We can embed pretty much anything to our rich text documents! Click the link below:👇 tighten.com/insights/ric...

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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There's not just one way to seed your Laravel apps. Check out our latest article to learn: ✅ How to import thousands of records from CSV ✅ How to use AI to seed realistic data ✅ How to create interactive seeders ...and more! tighten.com/insights/10-...

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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In today's article, discover 5 tips to build better full-text searches: ✅ Sort records ✅ Use filters effectively ✅ Tweak typo tolerance ✅ Access the raw Typesense response ✅ Use facets for better filtering Click the link below 👇 tighten.com/insights/fiv...

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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Tired of fighting your WYSIWYG editor? Today on the blog, @tonysm.com shows you how to integrate the Trix editor into your new and existing Laravel applications. Learn about the basics, how to customize it, how to migrate, and how to attach files. tighten.com/insights/ric...

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 helps you create a customizable admin panel in minutes. Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to learn how to: ✨ Install Filament in Laravel ⚡ Generate admin panels from Models 💅 Use rich text editors, tag inputs, & uploaders 🔍 Add filters & actions tighten.com/insights/fil...

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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For a few years, Takeout has been the best way to spin up local development services--MySQL, ClickHouse, Minio, and more--for PHP developers. With today's release, you no longer need PHP to use Takeout! Take a look at the our writeup to learn more: tighten.com/insights/tak...

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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Ready to level up your content game? 🚀 Discover the magic of Twill, the open-source Laravel CMS behind top brands like OpenAI, The New York Times, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Our latest article explores how easy and fun managing your site’s content can be! tighten.com/insights/get...

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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For those who didn't catch it live, my talk, "What to do after `laravel new`" from @LaraconAU, is now live on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4Q... In it, I walk through the steps you should take on every Laravel app; as the king of "it depends", it takes a lot for me to say that!

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

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Hey friends! We're happy to be here (a little late, but that way we missed weird early-days stuff like Sexy Alf, phew)! 👋

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