Freek Van der Herten
@freek.bsky.social
PHP developer at Spatie, built Mailcoach, myray.app, ohdear.app and flareapp.io, blogging at freek.dev, organising fullstackeurope.com
We just launched Performance Monitoring in Flare! 🚀
Catch errors and performance issues in your Laravel and PHP apps, all from one platform, at no extra cost. Read on why this a big step for Flare 👇
Catch errors and performance issues in your Laravel and PHP apps, all from one platform, at no extra cost. Read on why this a big step for Flare 👇
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We just launched Performance Monitoring in Flare! 🚀
Catch errors and performance issues in your Laravel and PHP apps, all from one platform, at no extra cost. Read on why this a big step for Flare 👇
Catch errors and performance issues in your Laravel and PHP apps, all from one platform, at no extra cost. Read on why this a big step for Flare 👇
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September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🔥 One of our users used Flare's MCP server to analyse all the performance data Flare collects and to give an optimization report. Very very cool!
(I have Peter’s permission to share his message all of you 👍)
flareapp.io/docs/flare/g...
(I have Peter’s permission to share his message all of you 👍)
flareapp.io/docs/flare/g...
September 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🔥 One of our users used Flare's MCP server to analyse all the performance data Flare collects and to give an optimization report. Very very cool!
(I have Peter’s permission to share his message all of you 👍)
flareapp.io/docs/flare/g...
(I have Peter’s permission to share his message all of you 👍)
flareapp.io/docs/flare/g...
🚀 I just deployed Oh Dear’s (ohdear.app) MCP server.
Here are a couple of example prompts:
“Analyse the performance of spatie.be”
“Show me the trends of the lighthouse reports”
“Which DNS records changed recently”
📚 Here are the docs: https://ohdear.app/docs/integrations/oh-dear-mcp-server
Here are a couple of example prompts:
“Analyse the performance of spatie.be”
“Show me the trends of the lighthouse reports”
“Which DNS records changed recently”
📚 Here are the docs: https://ohdear.app/docs/integrations/oh-dear-mcp-server
September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚀 I just deployed Oh Dear’s (ohdear.app) MCP server.
Here are a couple of example prompts:
“Analyse the performance of spatie.be”
“Show me the trends of the lighthouse reports”
“Which DNS records changed recently”
📚 Here are the docs: https://ohdear.app/docs/integrations/oh-dear-mcp-server
Here are a couple of example prompts:
“Analyse the performance of spatie.be”
“Show me the trends of the lighthouse reports”
“Which DNS records changed recently”
📚 Here are the docs: https://ohdear.app/docs/integrations/oh-dear-mcp-server
Did you know we came up with the name “Oh Dear” (ohdear.app) in a bar? We saw an ad for “Moeder Overste” depicting a head nun, and thinking what she would say if her website was down.
We now use that story as a basis of a new marketing campaign where we send that beer to potential new users.
We now use that story as a basis of a new marketing campaign where we send that beer to potential new users.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Did you know we came up with the name “Oh Dear” (ohdear.app) in a bar? We saw an ad for “Moeder Overste” depicting a head nun, and thinking what she would say if her website was down.
We now use that story as a basis of a new marketing campaign where we send that beer to potential new users.
We now use that story as a basis of a new marketing campaign where we send that beer to potential new users.
Here's an other example where I asked the AI to analyse the performance of our webview route at Mailcoach.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here's an other example where I asked the AI to analyse the performance of our webview route at Mailcoach.
The AI can use of all that info to analyse the performance.
Here I asked Claude Code to analyse the performance of the Mailcoach API.
Here I asked Claude Code to analyse the performance of the Mailcoach API.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The AI can use of all that info to analyse the performance.
Here I asked Claude Code to analyse the performance of the Mailcoach API.
Here I asked Claude Code to analyse the performance of the Mailcoach API.
We also added performance monitoring to Flare. So Flare knows all the runtimes of your requests, jobs, commands, jobs, ... all that good stuff.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We also added performance monitoring to Flare. So Flare knows all the runtimes of your requests, jobs, commands, jobs, ... all that good stuff.
Here is asked the AI to fetch the information about the latest exception in Flare for the project, and then I asked the AI to fix it.
Spoiler: after half a minute, the AI made the correct fix.
This is incredibly powerful stuff.
Spoiler: after half a minute, the AI made the correct fix.
This is incredibly powerful stuff.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here is asked the AI to fetch the information about the latest exception in Flare for the project, and then I asked the AI to fix it.
Spoiler: after half a minute, the AI made the correct fix.
This is incredibly powerful stuff.
Spoiler: after half a minute, the AI made the correct fix.
This is incredibly powerful stuff.
I’ve added an MCP server to flareapp.io and the results are pretty wild.
Through MCP, your AI can now fetch all information about exceptions that happen on production and use that information to fix the bugs locally.
Through MCP, your AI can now fetch all information about exceptions that happen on production and use that information to fix the bugs locally.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’ve added an MCP server to flareapp.io and the results are pretty wild.
Through MCP, your AI can now fetch all information about exceptions that happen on production and use that information to fix the bugs locally.
Through MCP, your AI can now fetch all information about exceptions that happen on production and use that information to fix the bugs locally.
💅 You can now easily teach Claude Code our PHP / Laravel guidelines, so it will code with grace and style.
spatie.be/guidelines/ai
spatie.be/guidelines/ai
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
💅 You can now easily teach Claude Code our PHP / Laravel guidelines, so it will code with grace and style.
spatie.be/guidelines/ai
spatie.be/guidelines/ai
Made yet another package, tagging 1.0.0 now 📦
✍️ Will blog about it tomorrow!
✍️ Will blog about it tomorrow!
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Made yet another package, tagging 1.0.0 now 📦
✍️ Will blog about it tomorrow!
✍️ Will blog about it tomorrow!
📦 This one is almost ready for prime time
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
Only has to be code reviewed before tagging 1.0
Feel free to already peek at the docs and code. All questions and remarks are welcome.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
Only has to be code reviewed before tagging 1.0
Feel free to already peek at the docs and code. All questions and remarks are welcome.
May 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📦 This one is almost ready for prime time
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
Only has to be code reviewed before tagging 1.0
Feel free to already peek at the docs and code. All questions and remarks are welcome.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
Only has to be code reviewed before tagging 1.0
Feel free to already peek at the docs and code. All questions and remarks are welcome.
🥳 Looking at the votes, it seems like we’ll have a Pipe operator in PHP 8.5
wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...
#php
wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...
#php
May 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🥳 Looking at the votes, it seems like we’ll have a Pipe operator in PHP 8.5
wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...
#php
wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...
#php
May 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🔑 There’s something deeply enjoyable when logging in with a passkey. No email/password to type, no redirect to third parties, superfast, …
📦 Creating a little something to make this super easy in #Laravel.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
🫡 Will blog about it tomorrow
📦 Creating a little something to make this super easy in #Laravel.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
🫡 Will blog about it tomorrow
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🔑 There’s something deeply enjoyable when logging in with a passkey. No email/password to type, no redirect to third parties, superfast, …
📦 Creating a little something to make this super easy in #Laravel.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
🫡 Will blog about it tomorrow
📦 Creating a little something to make this super easy in #Laravel.
spatie.be/docs/laravel...
🫡 Will blog about it tomorrow
April 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
💪 Added a nice little feature to Oh Dear this evening: we can now monitor hidden CNAME records
ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
October 26, 2023 at 9:02 PM
💪 Added a nice little feature to Oh Dear this evening: we can now monitor hidden CNAME records
ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
ohdear.app/news-and-upd...