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Tony Messias

@tonysm.com

Creator and maintainer of Turbo Laravel, Stimulus Laravel, Rich Text Laravel, Importmap Laravel, TailwindCSS Laravel & Globalid Laravel. Programmer at Tighten.

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Tighten@tighten.com · 2mo ago

You can run AI models directly in the browser! No server, no API key, no subscription. Just one open-source package: Transformers.js. Translation, object detection, background removal... all running on your user's device. Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to learn more 👇 tighten.com/insights/run...

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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Tighten@tighten.com · 2mo ago

Let's use the Laravel AI SDK to build a Slack bot! Many AI services offer Slack bots, but building your own has clear wins: 🧠 You own the memory 🔄 You can swap models anytime 🎨 You can customize it to your exact needs Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to learn how👇 tighten.com/insights/bui...

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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Matt Stauffer@mattstauffer.com · 4mo ago

It's heeeeere!! Three months of work has led to this: Introducing Voxacon! A multiplayer 3D virtual Laracon watch party, together with @tighten.com's annual puzzle (with prizes!) Check out a writeup and a quick video preview: tighten.com/insights/int...

Introducing Voxacon, the 2026 Tighten Laracon Puzzle

Every year, Tighten builds a puzzle for Laracon. We’ve run typing challenges, coding challenges, and, last year, an entire game-building challenge. It's a fun chance for us to build something for th...

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Tighten@tighten.com · 8mo ago

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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Tighten@tighten.com · 9mo ago

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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Tony Messias@tonysm.com · 9mo ago

Delegated Types is one of my favorite Active Record patterns! It surfaces the invisible hierarchy in polymorphic relations, lets you define richer models and their nesting, track data changes on the type cleanly, and so much more. Had fun writing this one!

Tighten@tighten.com · 9mo ago

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...

Tighten@tighten.com · 10mo ago

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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Tony Messias@tonysm.com · 10mo ago

I've just made some changes to the Hotwire Starter Kit. Following the official Laravel Starter Kits, it now has 2FA and all the auth-related routes were replaced with Fortify! Also, Rails has Fizzy and Campfire as demo Hotwire apps, we'll soon have one too for Laravel world.hey.com/tonysm/hotwi...

Hotwire Starter Kit Updates

Hey, folks. I've just wrapped up some updates to the Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel! It now has 2FA built-in (see the PR): ... and, also following the official Laravel Starter Kits, all the auth-rela...

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Tony Messias@tonysm.com · 11mo ago

Fizzy source code is amazing. All I expected from a Vanilla Rails app. Regular controllers, regular models. No fancy architecture. It uses import maps and vanilla CSS, so all we need to run it locally is Ruby. The app is very colorful and vibrant, view transitions make it feel so good. Hotwire FTW.

A screenshot of the terminal running `bundle exec rails stats`. It shows a bunch of useful stats on the Fizzy application, such as number of controllers (87), rate of methods per class on controllers (3), number of models (63), rate of methods per class on models (8), etc.Screenshot of the Card class on Fizzy. The modules are the most interesting part to me.Screenshot of the cards controller. Just a regular Rails controller, nothing fancy (that's the idea).
Tighten@tighten.com · 12mo ago

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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Tighten@tighten.com · last yr.

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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Tighten@tighten.com · last yr.

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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Side Project Podcast@sideprojectpodcast.com · last yr.

Please welcome @johnbon.dev into your ears! John has a side project with (gasp) actual users! And the best part is: it's seasonal. His users are active for 3 months of the year then he gets 9 months to tinker and upgrade. The dream. Check it out now: sideprojectpodcast.com/episodes/fan...

Side Project | FantasyBB/TellyDraft with John T. Bonaccorsi

John T. Bonaccorsi drops by to chat about FantasyBB, his seasonal (what) side project that affords him an unheard of 3 months of active users and 9 months of dev time to improve the product. He als...

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Guillermo Cava@guillermocava.com · last yr.

The source diving walkthrough bits on this one are lovely — one of the things I love about php & (non-uglified) js is being able to go to definition, figure about and gain a notion around extending things

Tony Messias@tonysm.com · last yr.

New video is out! With Turbo.js, we can deliver Turbo Streams in 3 ways: adding to the DOM, returning a special document that only contains Turbo Stream tags with a custom MIME type, or broadcasting via WS/SSE. Let's see how we can add a 4th way: HTTP Streaming. youtu.be/vGr0vI3n22c