Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
@daveyshafik.com
Professional Developer, Author, and Speaker. PHP 7.1 Release Manager (EOL). He/Him/They/Them. Posts are my own.
Reposted by Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
🚀 Beacon is live.
A feature flag platform built for Laravel and Pennant:
✅ App + Env-based flags
✅ Fine-grained targeting
✅ Gradual Rollouts
✅ A/B testing with variants
✅ Frontend support via Beam
Using native Laravel Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
A feature flag platform built for Laravel and Pennant:
✅ App + Env-based flags
✅ Fine-grained targeting
✅ Gradual Rollouts
✅ A/B testing with variants
✅ Frontend support via Beam
Using native Laravel Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🚀 Beacon is live.
A feature flag platform built for Laravel and Pennant:
✅ App + Env-based flags
✅ Fine-grained targeting
✅ Gradual Rollouts
✅ A/B testing with variants
✅ Frontend support via Beam
Using native Laravel Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
A feature flag platform built for Laravel and Pennant:
✅ App + Env-based flags
✅ Fine-grained targeting
✅ Gradual Rollouts
✅ A/B testing with variants
✅ Frontend support via Beam
Using native Laravel Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Reposted by Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
Using Laravel Pennant for feature flags?
Beam brings your Pennant feature flags to your frontend. A simple TypeScript library with first-class React and Vue support.
Beam: Laravel Pennant, now in the browser.
🔗 beam.beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beam
Beam brings your Pennant feature flags to your frontend. A simple TypeScript library with first-class React and Vue support.
Beam: Laravel Pennant, now in the browser.
🔗 beam.beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beam
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Using Laravel Pennant for feature flags?
Beam brings your Pennant feature flags to your frontend. A simple TypeScript library with first-class React and Vue support.
Beam: Laravel Pennant, now in the browser.
🔗 beam.beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beam
Beam brings your Pennant feature flags to your frontend. A simple TypeScript library with first-class React and Vue support.
Beam: Laravel Pennant, now in the browser.
🔗 beam.beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beam
Reposted by Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
Not sure which version works best?
Test them all.
Beacon makes it easy to run real mutli-variant A/B tests with Laravel Pennant.
Define variants. Target users. Learn what works.
Beacon, powered by Laravel and Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Test them all.
Beacon makes it easy to run real mutli-variant A/B tests with Laravel Pennant.
Define variants. Target users. Learn what works.
Beacon, powered by Laravel and Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not sure which version works best?
Test them all.
Beacon makes it easy to run real mutli-variant A/B tests with Laravel Pennant.
Define variants. Target users. Learn what works.
Beacon, powered by Laravel and Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Test them all.
Beacon makes it easy to run real mutli-variant A/B tests with Laravel Pennant.
Define variants. Target users. Learn what works.
Beacon, powered by Laravel and Pennant.
🔗 beaconhq.io/?mtm_cam...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Reposted by Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
Not every feature is for everyone.
Beacon lets you target flags by request attributes, environment, dates, & more — all in real time.
Define exactly who sees what, and when.
No custom code. No guesswork.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Beacon lets you target flags by request attributes, environment, dates, & more — all in real time.
Define exactly who sees what, and when.
No custom code. No guesswork.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not every feature is for everyone.
Beacon lets you target flags by request attributes, environment, dates, & more — all in real time.
Define exactly who sees what, and when.
No custom code. No guesswork.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Beacon lets you target flags by request attributes, environment, dates, & more — all in real time.
Define exactly who sees what, and when.
No custom code. No guesswork.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Reposted by Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️🌈
Feature flags that just make sense.
Beacon gives you real-time control over your Laravel Pennant feature flags, across every application and environment.
No deploys. No waiting. Just flip the switch.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Beacon gives you real-time control over your Laravel Pennant feature flags, across every application and environment.
No deploys. No waiting. Just flip the switch.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Feature flags that just make sense.
Beacon gives you real-time control over your Laravel Pennant feature flags, across every application and environment.
No deploys. No waiting. Just flip the switch.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Beacon gives you real-time control over your Laravel Pennant feature flags, across every application and environment.
No deploys. No waiting. Just flip the switch.
Join the waitlist at 🔗 https://beaconhq.io
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Just Lowe's casually inventing time travel to deliver my fridge in -2 days...
September 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Just Lowe's casually inventing time travel to deliver my fridge in -2 days...
After a few days with the AirPods Pro 3 (upgrading from AirPods 3/Sony XM4) here's my thoughts as a traditional hearing aids wearer:
- sound quality is way better than AP3
- ANC is great, better than AP3/XM4
- as hearing aids, they are functional. Audio doesn't sound natural, but is amplified well.
- sound quality is way better than AP3
- ANC is great, better than AP3/XM4
- as hearing aids, they are functional. Audio doesn't sound natural, but is amplified well.
September 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
After a few days with the AirPods Pro 3 (upgrading from AirPods 3/Sony XM4) here's my thoughts as a traditional hearing aids wearer:
- sound quality is way better than AP3
- ANC is great, better than AP3/XM4
- as hearing aids, they are functional. Audio doesn't sound natural, but is amplified well.
- sound quality is way better than AP3
- ANC is great, better than AP3/XM4
- as hearing aids, they are functional. Audio doesn't sound natural, but is amplified well.
Meet Beam — the frontend companion to Laravel Pennant.
✅ Built for the frontend
✅ Supports React, Vue, & vanilla JS
✅ Reactively responds to flag changes
Built for Laravel apps.
⚡️ beam.beacon-hq.dev
#Laravel #React #Vue #FeatureFlags #JavaScript
✅ Built for the frontend
✅ Supports React, Vue, & vanilla JS
✅ Reactively responds to flag changes
Built for Laravel apps.
⚡️ beam.beacon-hq.dev
#Laravel #React #Vue #FeatureFlags #JavaScript
August 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Meet Beam — the frontend companion to Laravel Pennant.
✅ Built for the frontend
✅ Supports React, Vue, & vanilla JS
✅ Reactively responds to flag changes
Built for Laravel apps.
⚡️ beam.beacon-hq.dev
#Laravel #React #Vue #FeatureFlags #JavaScript
✅ Built for the frontend
✅ Supports React, Vue, & vanilla JS
✅ Reactively responds to flag changes
Built for Laravel apps.
⚡️ beam.beacon-hq.dev
#Laravel #React #Vue #FeatureFlags #JavaScript
With a bit of work, I now have the Beacon Metrics test suite up to 90% with tests running across SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
I think we're getting close to a 1.0 release!
In case you missed it, full documentation can be found at metrics.beacon-hq.dev
Feedback welcome!
I think we're getting close to a 1.0 release!
In case you missed it, full documentation can be found at metrics.beacon-hq.dev
Feedback welcome!
Beacon Metrics
Simple Metrics for Laravel
metrics.beacon-hq.dev
April 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
With a bit of work, I now have the Beacon Metrics test suite up to 90% with tests running across SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
I think we're getting close to a 1.0 release!
In case you missed it, full documentation can be found at metrics.beacon-hq.dev
Feedback welcome!
I think we're getting close to a 1.0 release!
In case you missed it, full documentation can be found at metrics.beacon-hq.dev
Feedback welcome!
I just published full documentation for Beacon Metrics, metrics.beacon-hq.dev
It still needs more tests before a release — coverage is only 36% right now, although most of it is alias methods.
Main question is should I add the ability to get trends keyed by date?
It still needs more tests before a release — coverage is only 36% right now, although most of it is alias methods.
Main question is should I add the ability to get trends keyed by date?
Beacon Metrics
Simple Metrics for Laravel
metrics.beacon-hq.dev
April 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I just published full documentation for Beacon Metrics, metrics.beacon-hq.dev
It still needs more tests before a release — coverage is only 36% right now, although most of it is alias methods.
Main question is should I add the ability to get trends keyed by date?
It still needs more tests before a release — coverage is only 36% right now, although most of it is alias methods.
Main question is should I add the ability to get trends keyed by date?
When your side project spawns another side project…
Introducing Beacon Metrics, a package Laravel app metrics. Handles aggregate values, compare to previous period, and trends using a simple fluent API.
Still needs more tests before release, feedback appreciated!
Introducing Beacon Metrics, a package Laravel app metrics. Handles aggregate values, compare to previous period, and trends using a simple fluent API.
Still needs more tests before release, feedback appreciated!
April 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When your side project spawns another side project…
Introducing Beacon Metrics, a package Laravel app metrics. Handles aggregate values, compare to previous period, and trends using a simple fluent API.
Still needs more tests before release, feedback appreciated!
Introducing Beacon Metrics, a package Laravel app metrics. Handles aggregate values, compare to previous period, and trends using a simple fluent API.
Still needs more tests before release, feedback appreciated!
In case you missed it earlier today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Beacon provides a central place for managing Pennant feature flag configurations across all of your Laravel apps
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Beacon Preview
A preview of Beacon — a feature flag management platform for Laravel and Laravel Pennant.
Manage all of your feature flag state from a centralized location across all applications and environments.
https://beacon-hq.dev
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Beacon
0:34 Logging In, 2FA, and Teams
1:20 A
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In case you missed it earlier today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Beacon provides a central place for managing Pennant feature flag configurations across all of your Laravel apps
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Built on top of Laravel Pennant, Beacon provides a central place for managing feature flag configs across all of your Laravel apps & environments.
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Beacon Preview
A preview of Beacon — a feature flag management platform for Laravel and Laravel Pennant.
Manage all of your feature flag state from a centralized location across all applications and environments.
https://beacon-hq.dev
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Beacon
0:34 Logging In, 2FA, and Teams
1:20 A
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today, I'm excited to share the first video preview of Beacon, a Feature Flag Management Platform for #Laravel. Built on top of Laravel Pennant, Beacon provides a central place for managing feature flag configs across all of your Laravel apps & environments.
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
Watch now: youtu.be/0yTkINxeUY4
#php
I just released Bag 2.5 with added support for Optional Properties. Really happy with how this turned out!
You can read the docs at bagvalueobjects.com/...
#Laravel #PHP
You can read the docs at bagvalueobjects.com/...
#Laravel #PHP
Optionals | Bag
Immutable Value Objects for PHP 8.3+
bagvalueobjects.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I just released Bag 2.5 with added support for Optional Properties. Really happy with how this turned out!
You can read the docs at bagvalueobjects.com/...
#Laravel #PHP
You can read the docs at bagvalueobjects.com/...
#Laravel #PHP
Excited for Optional support being added to Bag in the forthcoming 2.5 release! You can see the PR here with full documentation: github.com/dshafik/b...
The only open question is whether to overload `Bag->has()` as a variadic, or add `Bag->hasAll()` and/or `Bag->hasAny()`. Feedback appreciated!
The only open question is whether to overload `Bag->has()` as a variadic, or add `Bag->hasAll()` and/or `Bag->hasAny()`. Feedback appreciated!
feat: add support for Optionals by dshafik · Pull Request #94 · dshafik/bag
fixes: #87
implements: #88
Optionals
Bag supports optional parameters using the Optional class. Optional parameters are parameters
that can be omitted when creating a Bag object, and will automati...
github.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Excited for Optional support being added to Bag in the forthcoming 2.5 release! You can see the PR here with full documentation: github.com/dshafik/b...
The only open question is whether to overload `Bag->has()` as a variadic, or add `Bag->hasAll()` and/or `Bag->hasAny()`. Feedback appreciated!
The only open question is whether to overload `Bag->has()` as a variadic, or add `Bag->hasAll()` and/or `Bag->hasAny()`. Feedback appreciated!
Wait a minute, the Composer mascot is a conductor, and the Conductor mascot is a *checks notes* PILOT?
Next product clearly needs to be called Pilot, I don't make the rules.
Buy Microsoft if you have to in order to avoid litigation.
/cc @naderman.de
Next product clearly needs to be called Pilot, I don't make the rules.
Buy Microsoft if you have to in order to avoid litigation.
/cc @naderman.de
March 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Wait a minute, the Composer mascot is a conductor, and the Conductor mascot is a *checks notes* PILOT?
Next product clearly needs to be called Pilot, I don't make the rules.
Buy Microsoft if you have to in order to avoid litigation.
/cc @naderman.de
Next product clearly needs to be called Pilot, I don't make the rules.
Buy Microsoft if you have to in order to avoid litigation.
/cc @naderman.de
New feature incoming for Bag: Support for Laravel Debugbar!
If you want to try it out for yourself, I'd love some feedback! To install, run:
composer require dshafik/bag:dev-laravel-debugbar
I still need to write tests, and then I'll push this out with Bag 2.4!
If you want to try it out for yourself, I'd love some feedback! To install, run:
composer require dshafik/bag:dev-laravel-debugbar
I still need to write tests, and then I'll push this out with Bag 2.4!
February 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New feature incoming for Bag: Support for Laravel Debugbar!
If you want to try it out for yourself, I'd love some feedback! To install, run:
composer require dshafik/bag:dev-laravel-debugbar
I still need to write tests, and then I'll push this out with Bag 2.4!
If you want to try it out for yourself, I'd love some feedback! To install, run:
composer require dshafik/bag:dev-laravel-debugbar
I still need to write tests, and then I'll push this out with Bag 2.4!
This weekend saw the release of Bag 2.1, and alongside if I have pushed out versioned documentation with a "What's New" and "Upgrade" docs for 2.x. I plan to keep separate docs for each 2.x release til 3.x, when I will compress them like 1.x:
✨ bagvalueobjects.com/...
⬆️ bagvalueobjects.com/...
✨ bagvalueobjects.com/...
⬆️ bagvalueobjects.com/...
What's New in Bag 2.1 | Bag
Immutable Value Objects for PHP 8.3+
bagvalueobjects.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This weekend saw the release of Bag 2.1, and alongside if I have pushed out versioned documentation with a "What's New" and "Upgrade" docs for 2.x. I plan to keep separate docs for each 2.x release til 3.x, when I will compress them like 1.x:
✨ bagvalueobjects.com/...
⬆️ bagvalueobjects.com/...
✨ bagvalueobjects.com/...
⬆️ bagvalueobjects.com/...
Going live now for a coding session on Beacon!
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/daveys...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/daveys...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
www.twitch.tv
January 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Going live now for a coding session on Beacon!
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/daveys...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/daveys...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watc...
#Laravel #PHP #Beacon
I just released v2.0 of Bag with support for Union Types and Fill Nullables:
github.com/dshafik/b...
The former is a BC break (in the Casting interfaces, if you don't use custom casts, no changes are needed) and the latter is a minor behavior change for better QoL.
github.com/dshafik/b...
The former is a BC break (in the Casting interfaces, if you don't use custom casts, no changes are needed) and the latter is a minor behavior change for better QoL.
Release Breaking Changes: Support for Union Types & Fill Nullables · dshafik/bag
What's Changed
Support union types by @dshafik in #65
Fill Nullables by @dshafik in #65
Breaking Changes
This release has one major breaking change, and a minor breaking change:
Casting with ...
github.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I just released v2.0 of Bag with support for Union Types and Fill Nullables:
github.com/dshafik/b...
The former is a BC break (in the Casting interfaces, if you don't use custom casts, no changes are needed) and the latter is a minor behavior change for better QoL.
github.com/dshafik/b...
The former is a BC break (in the Casting interfaces, if you don't use custom casts, no changes are needed) and the latter is a minor behavior change for better QoL.
Just released: Bag 1.4.0 with several quality of life improvements when using it with #Laravel controller injection.
It also finalizes #PHP 8.4 support (only two deprecation notices about implicit nulls I missed), and a bug fix when using Inertia.
Details here: github.com/dshafik/b...
It also finalizes #PHP 8.4 support (only two deprecation notices about implicit nulls I missed), and a bug fix when using Inertia.
Details here: github.com/dshafik/b...
Release Manual Validation, To Collection, PHP 8.4 support, Bug Fixes · dshafik/bag
What's Changed
fix: use the applications Laravel validator when available by @dshafik in #60
feat: Add toCollection() method by @dshafik in #61
feat: Add better support for optional validation...
github.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just released: Bag 1.4.0 with several quality of life improvements when using it with #Laravel controller injection.
It also finalizes #PHP 8.4 support (only two deprecation notices about implicit nulls I missed), and a bug fix when using Inertia.
Details here: github.com/dshafik/b...
It also finalizes #PHP 8.4 support (only two deprecation notices about implicit nulls I missed), and a bug fix when using Inertia.
Details here: github.com/dshafik/b...
Following up on yesterday's silliness, here's a PR with tests (and lots of changes) to add the LazilyResolveRouteBinding trait to Laravel core.
Should probably be called `DeferRouteBinding` or something better. I expect Taylor will figure it out 🙃
github.com/laravel/f...
#Laravel #PHP
Should probably be called `DeferRouteBinding` or something better. I expect Taylor will figure it out 🙃
github.com/laravel/f...
#Laravel #PHP
[11.x] Add the ability to lazily resolve route model binding by dshafik · Pull Request #54053 · laravel/framework
I ran into the behavior that was reported in #44177 and am proposing this addition to help resolve it by deferring the query until the model is used.
To be clear: this changes no existing behavior....
github.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Following up on yesterday's silliness, here's a PR with tests (and lots of changes) to add the LazilyResolveRouteBinding trait to Laravel core.
Should probably be called `DeferRouteBinding` or something better. I expect Taylor will figure it out 🙃
github.com/laravel/f...
#Laravel #PHP
Should probably be called `DeferRouteBinding` or something better. I expect Taylor will figure it out 🙃
github.com/laravel/f...
#Laravel #PHP
On yesterday's #Beacon stream I ran into the frustrating behavior in #Laravel where route parameters (specifically a model) are resolved before the middleware is run (where the global state for the tennant identification used in model scoping is created) — so I did a silly thing to solve it.
1/2
1/2
December 31, 2024 at 3:25 PM
🎉 We’re LIVE! 🎉
Come join the first livestream of Beacon, my new app for Laravel. Let’s code together and build something awesome! 🚀
📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik
📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik
Hop in now! 👇 #Laravel #PHP #LiveCoding
Come join the first livestream of Beacon, my new app for Laravel. Let’s code together and build something awesome! 🚀
📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik
📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik
Hop in now! 👇 #Laravel #PHP #LiveCoding
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Beacon Live Coding Stream
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December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
🎉 We’re LIVE! 🎉
Come join the first livestream of Beacon, my new app for Laravel. Let’s code together and build something awesome! 🚀
📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik
📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik
Hop in now! 👇 #Laravel #PHP #LiveCoding
Come join the first livestream of Beacon, my new app for Laravel. Let’s code together and build something awesome! 🚀
📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik
📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik
Hop in now! 👇 #Laravel #PHP #LiveCoding