Insights & updates from the build floor

Aug 11, 2026

Living with a Low Pain Threshold

So much of what I've built over the past few years has been in response to tiny little annoyances. Things that take 10 minutes, but should take two.

By Ed Grosvenor

Jul 27, 2026 AI

A Letter to My Friends at Laracon

To all of my friends in the Laravel community, especially those who are feeling a little insecure about the future right now.

By Ed Grosvenor

Jul 27, 2026 AI

What Should We Be Building Today?

We're in a golden age of software development, and the barriers to building whatever we can imagine have vanished. So what should we be building today?

By Ed Grosvenor

Jul 22, 2026

Why We Built Ballast

We built a fully deterministic tool that measures and monitors code durability, and it has changed how we talk about AI

By Ed Grosvenor

Jul 16, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 15, 2026

This Week in PHP Internals — July 8 to July 15, 2026. A brand-new class extension proposal rewrote itself mid-thread, the Deprecations RFC froze with ballots se...

By Len Woodward

Jul 08, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 8, 2026

This Week in PHP Internals — July 1 to July 8, 2026. The Deprecations RFC fought about WordPress and then about evidence, Time\Duration declared itself complete...

By Len Woodward

Jul 01, 2026 PHP

This Week in PHP Internals - July 1, 2026

The Deprecations RFC turned into a fight about honesty, Rob Landers opened Primary Constructors, and a user wrote a heartfelt "Disheartening Rant" about async —...

By Len Woodward

Jun 16, 2026

Oops, They Did It Again

After a month long scramble to move automated workflows away from Claude, it turns out we didn't have to... yet.

By Ed Grosvenor

Jun 08, 2026 Clients Security

We've Had the Tools All Along

The tools required to keep us safe from the new threats have mostly been around for years. We just haven't been using them.

By Ed Grosvenor