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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 18/11/2025

🚀 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

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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 17/11/2025

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

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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 16/11/2025

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

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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 14/11/2025

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 🔗 beaconhq.io #Laravel #PHP #Beacon

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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 13/11/2025

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 🔗 beaconhq.io #Laravel #PHP #Beacon

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Beacon HQ @beacon-hq.dev · 13/11/2025

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 24/09/2025

Just Lowe's casually inventing time travel to deliver my fridge in -2 days...

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 23/09/2025

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.

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 24/08/2025

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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 18/04/2025

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!

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Beacon Metrics

Simple Metrics for Laravel

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 17/04/2025

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?

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Beacon Metrics

Simple Metrics for Laravel

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 15/04/2025

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!

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 31/03/2025

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

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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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 31/03/2025

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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 29/03/2025

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

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Optionals | Bag

Immutable Value Objects for PHP 8.3+

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 28/03/2025

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!

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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...

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 02/03/2025

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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 27/02/2025

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!

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 27/01/2025

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/...

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What's New in Bag 2.1 | Bag

Immutable Value Objects for PHP 8.3+

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 10/01/2025

Going live now for a coding session on Beacon! Twitch: www.twitch.tv/daveys... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watc... #Laravel #PHP #Beacon

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 05/01/2025

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.

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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 ...

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 03/01/2025

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...

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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...

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 01/01/2025

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

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[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....

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 31/12/2024

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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 30/12/2024

🎉 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

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 30/12/2024

🚨 We’re going live in 30 minutes! 🚨 Join me as I kick off the live coding journey of Beacon, a new app for the #Laravel ecosystem. 📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik See you at 10 AM PT! Don’t miss it! 🎥 #PHP #LiveCoding

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 29/12/2024

Tomorrow at 10 AM PT, I’m kicking off the live coding journey of Beacon, my new app for the #Laravel ecosystem. What is Beacon? Why am I building it? Find out LIVE on: 📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik Set your reminders now! 🚀 #PHP #LiveCoding

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 29/12/2024

👀 A sneak peek at the logo for Beacon… can you guess what it might be? Find out Monday at 10 AM PT during the first livestream of Beacon, my new open-source app for the #Laravel ecosystem! 📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik #PHP

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 28/12/2024

Curious about my new app, Beacon? 🚀 Join me Monday at 10 AM PT for the first livestream on Twitch (and hopefully YouTube) as I kick things off! 📺 Twitch: twitch.tv/daveyshafik 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@dshafik Don’t miss it! 🎥 #Laravel #PHP #LiveCoding

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 28/12/2024

Big News! Starting Monday at 10 AM PT, I’ll be live streaming the development of a new open-source app for #Laravel! It's called Beacon, and it's built with Laravel, Inertia, React, & Tailwind, I think it’ll be a great addition to the ecosystem. Don’t miss it! #PHP #LiveCoding

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 27/12/2024

I'm convinced that a not insignificant amount of the success of #Laravel (and himself) is @taylorotwell.bsky.social's ability to name stuff.

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 22/12/2024

#3DPrinter folks, what PLA would you suggest for a newbie planning to get a @bambulabglobal.bsky.social A1 with an AMS, and where to buy it? #maker

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 19/12/2024

🎥 Live Now! Join me as I explore how Laravel’s Blade templating engine works under the hood. If you’re curious about the internals, this stream is for you! Come hang out and bring your questions! 👨‍💻 🔗 Watch now: twitch.tv/dav... #laravel #php

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 19/12/2024

💥 Starting in TEN MINUTES Inside Laravel Livestream: Blade Join me for a deep dive into Laravel’s Blade templating engine, we'll be digging through the code and figuring out what makes it tick! 🔗 twitch.tv/dav... #laravel #php

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 19/12/2024

✨ Starting in one hour 💫 🚀 Inside Laravel Livestream: Blade Todays stream will be a deep dive into Laravel’s Blade templating engine, come join me and bring your questions! 🔗 twitch.tv/dav... #laravel #php

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 18/12/2024

🚀 Inside Laravel: Blade Join me tomorrow, Dec 19, from 10am-12pm PT for a deep dive into Laravel’s Blade templating engine. 🔗 twitch.tv/dav... 🕒 Check your local time: bit.ly/3ZZsPSr Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Full-time developer with 25 years of experience as a technical polyglot with a focus on PHP and related technologies. Available for work.

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 10/12/2024

🚀 Going live NOW for my latest Inside Laravel livestream! Come join me as we dive into Eloquent: twitch.tv/daveyshafik #Laravel #PHP

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Pauline Vos @pauline-vos.nl · 05/12/2024

I spent the last few months building a multiplayer game PWA using Rust + WASM. Here’s what I learned 👉🧵

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Laravel News @laravelnews.com · 03/12/2024

🚨 Packagist.org is ending support for Composer 1.x! Stay up to date! Make sure you're using Composer 2.x for all your Laravel projects. Time to upgrade and enjoy new features!

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Packagist.org is ending support for Composer 1.x - Laravel News

The packagist team announced it's shutting down support for Composer v1.x on February 25th, 2025.

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 03/12/2024

🚀 Inside Laravel: Sessions and Error Handling Join me today, Dec 3, from 11am-1pm PT for a deep dive into Laravel’s session management and error handling internals. Curious about how they work behind the scenes? Bring your questions! 👨‍💻 🔗 twitch.tv/daveyshafik #Laravel #PHP

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Stephen Rees-Carter @valorin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you use Laravel’s implicit route bindings, you’ll probably end up with a route like this: /projects/{project}/plans/{plan} But how do you ensure {plan} is actually part of {project}? That's where Scoped Bindings come in! securinglaravel.com/security-tip-sc… #Laravel

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Security Tip: Scoping Bindings

[Tip#23] Because who doesn't love to scope their bindings?

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PHP Community @phpc.social · 22/11/2024

We've assembled a starter pack of just a few of the awesome voices from the #PHP community here on Bluesky. But don't stop here! Take a look at who these folks follow for more great following ideas. go.bsky.app/SkXz8C8

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 26/11/2024

Join me live for another Inside Laravel livestream in about an hour! (10am PT) This week we'll be covering Events, Broadcasting, and Notifications 🔗 www.twitch.tv/daveyshafik #Laravel #PHP

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 19/11/2024

Inside Laravel Livestream: Queues, Bus, & Jobs Join me tomorrow, Nov 19, 10am-12pm PT for a deep dive into how Laravel’s Queues, Bus, and Jobs work under the hood. Curious about their internals? Bring your questions! 🧑🏻‍💻 📆 November 19th @ 10am PT 🔗 twitch.tv/daveyshafik #Laravel #PHP

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Davey Shafik 🦁🐉🏳️‍🌈 @daveyshafik.com · 12/11/2024

Todays Inside Laravel livestream will focus on how the configuration system works. If that doesn't take two hours we'll take a look at how Managers work. 🔗 twitch.tv/daveyshafik ⏰ 10am-12pm Pacific #Laravel #PHP

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