Laracon AU
@laracon.au
Get ready to Level Up at #LaraconAU, held at QUT Gardens Theatre on November 13 - 14, 2025 in Brisbane, Queensland
@ryanlovett.au closes #LaraconAU with a raw and powerful talk on identity, burnout, and rebuilding after loss.
A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇
A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
@ryanlovett.au closes #LaraconAU with a raw and powerful talk on identity, burnout, and rebuilding after loss.
A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇
A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇
What can Helm’s Deep teach us about application security?
@valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget.
Watch the full talk 👇
@valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget.
Watch the full talk 👇
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What can Helm’s Deep teach us about application security?
@valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget.
Watch the full talk 👇
@valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget.
Watch the full talk 👇
We're great at building solutions, but are we solving the right problems?
@jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇
@jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We're great at building solutions, but are we solving the right problems?
@jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇
@jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇
Kate Kirwin from She Codes Australia shows how mentoring others can level up your own skills through the protégé effect, improving fundamentals, communication, empathy, and confidence, even if you feel like an imposter.
December 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Kate Kirwin from She Codes Australia shows how mentoring others can level up your own skills through the protégé effect, improving fundamentals, communication, empathy, and confidence, even if you feel like an imposter.
@leaht.codes from Laravel shares a simple, repeatable approach to front-end development, showing how spacing, typography, layering, and interaction turn basic layouts into polished experiences, backed by live demos from real Laravel sites.
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
@leaht.codes from Laravel shares a simple, repeatable approach to front-end development, showing how spacing, typography, layering, and interaction turn basic layouts into polished experiences, backed by live demos from real Laravel sites.
Can you ship straight to production without staging?
James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.
James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.
December 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Can you ship straight to production without staging?
James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.
James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.
Hear from @jbrooks.uk how the Laravel team rebuilt Forge from the ground up to modernise its architecture and improve developer experience.
A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇
A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hear from @jbrooks.uk how the Laravel team rebuilt Forge from the ground up to modernise its architecture and improve developer experience.
A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇
A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇
See how @mary.win unpacks how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers showcase real world factory and abstract factory patterns.
See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇
See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇
December 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
See how @mary.win unpacks how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers showcase real world factory and abstract factory patterns.
See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇
See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇
Watch as @jominney.bsky.social cuts through the confusion around software architecture and shows how small Laravel teams can make pragmatic, context driven decisions.
A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇
A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Watch as @jominney.bsky.social cuts through the confusion around software architecture and shows how small Laravel teams can make pragmatic, context driven decisions.
A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇
A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇
React fatigue is real.
@simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with.
For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇
@simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with.
For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇
December 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
React fatigue is real.
@simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with.
For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇
@simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with.
For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇
Semantic HTML is not optional.
@charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS.
A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇
@charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS.
A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Semantic HTML is not optional.
@charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS.
A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇
@charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS.
A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇
What does resilient Laravel code really look like when things go wrong in production?
@zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇
@zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
What does resilient Laravel code really look like when things go wrong in production?
@zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇
@zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇
@nirys.bsky.social's talk is a practical guide to writing tests that developers will actually run.
From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types.
Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇
From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types.
Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇
December 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@nirys.bsky.social's talk is a practical guide to writing tests that developers will actually run.
From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types.
Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇
From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types.
Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇
Delivering a rapid tour of everything new in the ecosystem, @jessarcher.bsky.social shares a packed update on Laravel’s growth and the developer experience improvements shipping across the framework.
Check out the full talk 👇
Check out the full talk 👇
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Delivering a rapid tour of everything new in the ecosystem, @jessarcher.bsky.social shares a packed update on Laravel’s growth and the developer experience improvements shipping across the framework.
Check out the full talk 👇
Check out the full talk 👇
How do you turn a decade old multi tenant PHP beast into a modern Laravel app without a big bang rewrite?
In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins.
See the full talk 👇
In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins.
See the full talk 👇
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
How do you turn a decade old multi tenant PHP beast into a modern Laravel app without a big bang rewrite?
In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins.
See the full talk 👇
In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins.
See the full talk 👇
Watch as @mishmanners.tech breaks down how to ensure quality testing in an AI driven world, from the testing pyramid to practical AI assisted coding workflows.
A grounded look at hype vs reality and how developers can use AI without losing critical thinking. Watch the talk here 👇
A grounded look at hype vs reality and how developers can use AI without losing critical thinking. Watch the talk here 👇
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Watch as @mishmanners.tech breaks down how to ensure quality testing in an AI driven world, from the testing pyramid to practical AI assisted coding workflows.
A grounded look at hype vs reality and how developers can use AI without losing critical thinking. Watch the talk here 👇
A grounded look at hype vs reality and how developers can use AI without losing critical thinking. Watch the talk here 👇
See how Jason McCreary's Blueprint turns a small YAML file into full Laravel scaffolding - migrations, models, controllers, views + tests.
This gives you 100%-covered, conventional code fast, and pairing nicely with AI/Boost for the complex bits.
Watch the full Laracon AU talk 👇
This gives you 100%-covered, conventional code fast, and pairing nicely with AI/Boost for the complex bits.
Watch the full Laracon AU talk 👇
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
See how Jason McCreary's Blueprint turns a small YAML file into full Laravel scaffolding - migrations, models, controllers, views + tests.
This gives you 100%-covered, conventional code fast, and pairing nicely with AI/Boost for the complex bits.
Watch the full Laracon AU talk 👇
This gives you 100%-covered, conventional code fast, and pairing nicely with AI/Boost for the complex bits.
Watch the full Laracon AU talk 👇
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I can’t say enough about how amazing, welcoming and incredible @laracon.au was. Thank you @dyrynda.au for allowing me the opportunity to be there! Already counting down the days until 2026!
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I can’t say enough about how amazing, welcoming and incredible @laracon.au was. Thank you @dyrynda.au for allowing me the opportunity to be there! Already counting down the days until 2026!
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I had a great time at @laracon.au New memories and experiences unlocked. Learning from both the presentations and the conversations with new and old friends. Thanks for having me. We all definitely levelled up
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I had a great time at @laracon.au New memories and experiences unlocked. Learning from both the presentations and the conversations with new and old friends. Thanks for having me. We all definitely levelled up
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It’s been a year today since I walked on stage at @laracon.au 2024 and opened up about my experiences with depression and anxiety.
Mental health should be talked about.
And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible.
youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0
Mental health should be talked about.
And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible.
youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0
Marty Friedel - The Invisible Developer - Laracon AU 2024
YouTube video by Laracon AU
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November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It’s been a year today since I walked on stage at @laracon.au 2024 and opened up about my experiences with depression and anxiety.
Mental health should be talked about.
And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible.
youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0
Mental health should be talked about.
And with 2025’s conference just days away, a reminder to be aware of those around you who feel invisible.
youtu.be/0kwNx93aha0
The Road to Laracon is back for season three.
This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).
This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Road to Laracon is back for season three.
This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).
This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).
Our last speaker has been practicing their Australianisms to introduce themselves.
Join Jason McCreary at this year's #LaraconAU where he'll share how you can ship your apps faster than a roo across the outback with Blueprint
Join Jason McCreary at this year's #LaraconAU where he'll share how you can ship your apps faster than a roo across the outback with Blueprint
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Our last speaker has been practicing their Australianisms to introduce themselves.
Join Jason McCreary at this year's #LaraconAU where he'll share how you can ship your apps faster than a roo across the outback with Blueprint
Join Jason McCreary at this year's #LaraconAU where he'll share how you can ship your apps faster than a roo across the outback with Blueprint
Having joined not only @laravel.com the company, but the #Laravel community itself just over 12 months ago, @leaht.codes will be sharing how to build UIs that your users can connect with!
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Having joined not only @laravel.com the company, but the #Laravel community itself just over 12 months ago, @leaht.codes will be sharing how to build UIs that your users can connect with!
Returning for his second #LaraconAU, @ryanlovett.au will close out this year's conference reflecting on his life decisions and how they've defined him.
You won't want to miss this one!
You won't want to miss this one!
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Returning for his second #LaraconAU, @ryanlovett.au will close out this year's conference reflecting on his life decisions and how they've defined him.
You won't want to miss this one!
You won't want to miss this one!
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"Let's Hack!", my Pre-Laracon Security Workshop is just FIVE weeks away! 🎉
(So is @laracon.au... but let's be honest, priorities.)
Only 11 tickets left, & I need to confirm numbers with the venue, so if you've been thinking about it, now's the time!
👉 events.humanitix.com/lets-hack-pr...
(So is @laracon.au... but let's be honest, priorities.)
Only 11 tickets left, & I need to confirm numbers with the venue, so if you've been thinking about it, now's the time!
👉 events.humanitix.com/lets-hack-pr...
"Let's Hack!" Pre-Laracon Security Workshop
Attending Laracon AU? Come along to
events.humanitix.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"Let's Hack!", my Pre-Laracon Security Workshop is just FIVE weeks away! 🎉
(So is @laracon.au... but let's be honest, priorities.)
Only 11 tickets left, & I need to confirm numbers with the venue, so if you've been thinking about it, now's the time!
👉 events.humanitix.com/lets-hack-pr...
(So is @laracon.au... but let's be honest, priorities.)
Only 11 tickets left, & I need to confirm numbers with the venue, so if you've been thinking about it, now's the time!
👉 events.humanitix.com/lets-hack-pr...