Ash Allen 🚀

🚀 Freelance Laravel Web Developer and Blogger
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[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

Consuming APIs In Laravel is now available to buy! 🎉

It's the ultimate guide for learning how to build robust and powerful API integrations for your Laravel apps!

👉 Use the following discount code to get 20% off: CAIL20

https://t.co/L3vm8nSuqv

#laravel #php

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

It's out. https://t.co/WJWbJj7qYc Go go go.

Here's what Laravel customers can expect.

[NCSC UK @NCSC]

The NCSC is encouraging UK organisations to prepare for immediate updating of systems using PHP. Where immediate remediation is not feasible, organisations should consider taking the system offline until it can be fully mitigated.

For more⬇️
https://t.co/l6TDtVurJN

[Matt Stauffer @mattstauffer]

It's time for a new season of the @LaravelPodcast!

This season I'm going to be hanging out with members and friends of the @laravel community. Less structure, less interview, more fun and more hang.

First up: The man, the myth, the legend @ericlbarnes!

https://t.co/mop4HYPaig

[Jack Ellis @JackEllis]

I bet you didn't see this one coming 😇
https://t.co/gX7MQVNYeh

[Jack Ellis @JackEllis]

Software engineering is dead... In other news, a software engineer with 18 years of experience (me) just spent 15 hours refining a big new feature, asking questions that the frontier models hadn't even considered. Software engineering isn't going anywhere.

[Ondřej Mirtes @OndrejMirtes]

PHPStan 2.3.0 is out with massive leap in performance, generics improvements, detecting unused variables, improved closure type inference, inferring static variable types from assignments, and engine rewrite!

[Povilas Korop | AI Coding & Laravel Educator @PovilasKorop]

I made a lot of money from Laravel Daily courses despite the website codebase is pretty crappy, I admit.

Why? People paid for the VALUE it provided. They didn't care about my backend code.

As a product creator, focus on the value. Your code is not the product.

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

Excited to watch this!

Nico is one of the best devs I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

I'm sure I'll learn a ton from this talk 😄

[Nico Devs @nicodevs]

I’m super excited to announce that I’ll be the next speaker at the Laravel Worldwide Meetup!

Join me on October 27 to explore semantic search with the Laravel AI SDK.

https://t.co/J1UyiyA10c

See you there!

[Matt Stauffer @mattstauffer]

LARAVEL PODCAST SEASON EIGHT LETS GOOOO
(first episode drops October 13th! I am having SOOO much fun)

This is the season I've been waiting to make for soooo long.

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@cloneisjun Generally, I've found that they both highlight some of the same issues. But then they also highlight issues that the other model didn't.

For example:

Codex detects issues A, B, C, D, E
Copilot detects issues A, B, C, F, G

(I'm not sure if my example makes sense there haha 😅)

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

What tools (if any) do you use to help with reviewing PRs?

I usually do a first pass with Codex. And then a second pass with Copilot.

I'm wondering what other people are using in their own workflows 😁

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@JonPurvis_ It's definitely a lot better than it used to be. But there are still times when it flags non-issues as major issues! So that can be a bit annoying haha

But I reckon 70-80% of the comments it leaves on my PRs are reasonable and actually point out legit things I could improve 😁

[Jack Ellis @JackEllis]

How I perform database refactors in 2026:
- Dashboard is easy to verify but API is harder
- We store all API request history.
- We run every API request from the past 6 months, with both data models, and verify the output is exactly the same

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@jackbayliss1996 I love it! 🔥

[Jack Bayliss @jackbayliss1996]

Mission accomplished 🫡
https://t.co/uUuu7VJPVt

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@gilbitron I can't even begin to imagine how surreal/exciting it must have been when LS was being acquired. Or how nerve-wracking it must be to leave Stripe.

I'm sure you'll smash whatever you do next!

Good luck for the future! I hope everything goes well 😄

[Jack Ellis @JackEllis]

Delegating all of your thinking to AI will make you dumb and your outcomes will always be average. Use it as an assistant whilst continuing to use of your brain. Failing to do so guarantees atrophy of neural networks. Look at what happens to your body when you don't exercise.

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@Shergela11 Nice! I'll keep trying to post those types of short articles too 😄

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

Do you still read any Laravel/PHP/web-dev blog articles? 🤔

If so, what types of content are you interested in reading?

I'm planning new articles. But I'm mindful of the fact that AI/agents have made my older, existing "How to do X in Y" style tutorials sort of redundant.

So I want to see what types of things people are interested in reading about.

I want to write articles that you'll enjoy and want to read. Open to all ideas! 😄

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@BartomiejJ95710 Ooooh I always love writing about these kinds of topics! That's sparked an idea for a new article, thanks 😄

[Ash Allen 🚀 @AshAllenDesign]

@salisedesign Yeah, unfortunately, I agree 😭