#64 - Understanding action patterns 🧠, Why senior developers are more valuable than ever 💎, Named queued closures 💡, Tempest 1.0 🚀, commenter 📦

Explore the action pattern in Laravel to streamline controller logic by moving it to separate classes, enhancing code organization and testability, demonstrated through user creation and validation processes.

A focused way to test Laravel middleware: set up a dummy route with the middleware applied, then test the route to assert expected behavior for different user states. This approach keeps your middleware tests simple and reliable by decoupling them from real routes.

Learn how to send Tailwind styled emails in Laravel 12 with this video tutorial. Enhance your Laravel applications with sleek and responsive email designs using Tailwind CSS.

Since Laravel 12.13, you can assign a custom name to queued closures, making them easier to identify.

dispatch(function () {
    // Handle inventory sync process
})->name('inventory sync job');

The RFC will make OPcache a mandatory part of PHP, streamlining maintenance by tightly integrating it with the Zend Engine, while keeping existing INI settings intact for configuration flexibility.

JetBrains Junie is a new AI assistant for PhpStorm that helps with code generation, explanations, and project-specific best practices—right in your IDE. Junie works contextually within your codebase and supports team guidelines, making everyday PHP development smoother and more consistent.

After two years of development, Tempest releases their stable version 1. This modern, community-driven PHP framework offers a decoupled ORM, powerful templating, intuitive console applications, and comprehensive code discovery.

Integrate seamless commenting functionality into your Laravel project with Commenter, a modern, feature-rich package that covers all your comment-related needs. It offers a user-friendly admin panel, WYSIWYG editor, syntax highlighting, dark mode, threaded replies, user mentions, reactions, spam prevention, and more.

Zapier shares how their hiring now emphasizes candidates skilled with AI tools and automation, aiming for leaner, faster-moving teams. This “AI-first” approach helps them stay adaptable, maximize automation, and evolve roles alongside new technology.

Peter Naur's 1985 essay emphasizes programming as theory building, highlighting the importance of understanding over mere code generation. With AI's rise, senior developers become crucial in maintaining software integrity, ensuring coherence, and mentoring juniors.

Discover 10 free GitHub repos to kickstart an AI engineering career, covering ML, neural networks, LLMs, RAG techniques, and AI agents with hands-on projects and real-world applications.