You're damn right I am!

8.3 years ago, we adopted @sentry.io and never looked back. Sentry has been a joy to use and fun to watch grow and expand over the years.

It's 3:50 AM. My canvas, the web. My brush, Laravel.

The main thing to understand is that you are passing the $validated array (or whatever you pass through) to each class in the pipeline and modifying or appending values as you go for use in the next class/step in your pipeline. Here we add the account key to our $validated array after creation.

Laravel Pipelines can clean up a multi-step process and make your code more testable. @ashallendesign.bsky.social has a nice guide here: ashallendesign.co.uk/blog/laravel... The image shows a somewhat contrived example of refactoring to pipelines.

And on a related note, here's @taylorotwell.bsky.social reminding us to build each other up. Something you'll rarely get from the dogmatic crowd.

Classic #Laravel Tip: Many things in Laravel are macroable. When you wish X could do Y, like why isn't there a ->last() method on the Query Builder (so you don't have to do ->latest()->first()), you can write a macro and make it happen.

"Efficient MySQL Pagination Using Deferred Joins". Come for the efficient pagination. Stay for the composite index education. aaronfrancis.com/2022/efficie...

Classic #Laravel Tip: Scheduled tasks run sequentially in the order they are defined. To avoid long-running commands from causing delayed execution of subsequent tasks, either convert them to queued jobs or run those commands in the background. See: laravel.com/docs/11.x/sc...

If you want to use #Twilio in your #Laravel applications, forget packages. Just create a service provider for the Twilio #php SDK. Here's a gist to get you started: t.co/xpigZjhlsz

If PHP is dead, how come #Laravel keeps growing?

Classic #Laravel Tip: The route() helper has a third parameter. If you pass false, it will return the relative url/path of the route.