Stephen Jude

Husband | Dad | Laravel Chef

[Stephen Jude @stephenjude_]

The setup hurdles for PECL are legendary, so I had to give Pie a try—honestly, there's no better way to handle PHP extensions right now. 🥧

Big shoutout to @ThePHPF for this! 👏

Article:
✅ Installing via CLI/Executable
✅ macOS & Laravel Herd setup
✅ Demo: MongoDB Extension

[Laravel News @laravelnews]

We updated the look of our new Laravel release emails and integrated the Laravel AI SDK to help generate a summary of the features you care most about.

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

The Laravel AI SDK and MCP package now have MCP client support. This means you can connect your Laravel agents to a real MCP server with minimal code.

Spin up the client, then spread its tools right into your agent's 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜() array.

Now your agent can open issues, review PRs, and search repos - alongside your own tools. 🤝

https://t.co/wE1HxcMSLY

[Laravel @laravelphp]

Laravel Cloud is now a part of @Stripe Projects.

Provision your complete stack including environment, compute, database, cache, and credentials, all from the Stripe CLI.

Install Stripe CLI, then run 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚍 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕_𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍/𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

https://t.co/i1UlcsgVLw

[Simon Hamp 🍣 🍜 @simonhamp]

Silicon Valley is still sleeping on PHP in a big way

Maybe it's a lack of imagination? Are they struggling to find ways to generate value out of an open source ecosystem that has notoriously demanded "free as in beer"?

The community is huge, vibrant, and hundreds of thousands of businesses run PHP, generating trillions of dollars in value globally (and I'm not just talking about websites that are running on Wordpress)

We're past the era of script kids. With AI, it's possible for anyone to write good, clean code

#PHP and #Laravel are the best tools for building amazing, reliable, performant applications with AI across the stack (server to client)

You can't build what you can build with this stack for cheaper anywhere else

[Laracon US @LaraconUS]

Next on stage is Laravel Software Engineer @mateusjatenee

Mateus will be building a CLI coding agent from scratch.

Join us July 28–29 in Boston.

https://t.co/m9d8UNHodo

[Laravel @laravelphp]

GitHub repo →

https://t.co/Q10CDCSZHC

[Stephen Uchenna @Sonofigma]

Payment screens are where users suddenly become very awake.

Especially with eSIMs.

You’re paying for something invisible, hoping it installs correctly, and trusting it’ll work in another country.

Did design this step to feel less like checkout, more like reassurance.

[MadeWithLaravel @MadeWithLaravel]

Add 2FA to new & existing Filament apps with filament-two-factor-authentication by @stephenjude_ 👉️ - https://t.co/o5kcV4EyMM

[Pascal Baljet @pascalbaljet]

Native generics in PHP? Is it finally happening? 🫨

https://t.co/PosEhVv0U0

[Stephen Uchenna @Sonofigma]

I'm the Product Designer your founder keeps saying he can't find.

+ Three (3) published case studies with live links & products.
+ Currently job hunting.

5 Reasons why your next hire should be me!

🧵

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

Laravel AI SDK now supports sub-agents. 🤝

Return an agent from another agent’s tools() method and the parent agent can delegate focused tasks to it, just like any other tool.

Sub-agents can have their own instructions, tools, provider config, and isolated context.

https://t.co/knbCHkaPwp

[Stephen Jude @stephenjude_]

Filament Two Factor Authentication (2FA) just crossed 180,000 downloads on Packagist 🎉

@filamentphp made building Laravel admin panels easy. This plugin makes adding TOTP + Passkeys a one-liner.

Thanks to everyone who installed, contributed, or filed an issue.

[Stephen Jude @stephenjude_]

I could build one 😌

[K.O.O @Dominus_Kelvin]

We need a great VPS provider in Africa.

[Steve Bauman @heystevebauman]

Showcode for Desktop v2.0 is here

And it's now completely free and open source!

[Jay Rogers 👨‍💻 @jaydrogers]

Passkeys are now NATIVELY supported in Laravel 🤩

This is why I love Laravel SO MUCH 💯

[Pascal Baljet @pascalbaljet]

Inertia 3.1 is out, and it brings rescued deferred props! 🪄

Your deferred prop might call a flaky third-party API or throw an exception. With the new rescue option, the exception is still reported, but your users won't see an error response.

[Mark Essien @markessien]

Everyone lamenting how they can't find talent, while I am wishing I had more work for all the talent I have in my network.

[Luke Kuzmish @cosmastech]

Queueable, durable workflows in @laravelphp 👀

Create a list of steps in your job and recover from failure right where you left off. Share data between each step.

Would you use this feature?

[Simon Hamp 🍣 🍜 @simonhamp]

Sent our second application into @ycombinator (my third as a founder)

Pitched something we've been thinking about for a while

Something that shows exactly why PHP on mobile has such potential

If we get in, we're gonna have our work cut out for us!

😬

[Stephen Uchenna @Sonofigma]

The best Product Designer your team hasn't hired yet is currently typing this tweet.

Open to full-time/contract roles. Reposts genuinely appreciated.

https://t.co/fwcPpYEYq7