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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 18/06/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, With all the awesome work you're doing on route inlay hints. Reckon we could add support for showing the route above controller actions? Would be really handy for quick skimming.

A php class method showing a grey text above it with "GET /customers/send-access-code"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 01/05/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com Do you have plans to add doing vendor:publish as an action? Would be wicked to be able to do this without switching to the terminal 💡

Screenshot showing the Laravel vendor:publish artisan command output.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/04/2025

Would ya look at that, our @laravel.com Inertia Data Providers package now has a make:data-provider command and integration with @laravel-idea.com! Check it out and let us know what you think! github.com/webfox/larav...

A screenshot of the Laravel Idea action menu showing a selected item of "Create Inertia Data Provider".

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 09/04/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, would it be possible to add an intention on controller methods to "Create Form Request". All it would do is open the "Create Form Request" dialog like you do from the Code Generation menu, but would automatically add it to the controller method once you hit "OK".

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com what's the likelihood of you supporting for@statamic.bsky.social, e.g. antlers syntax and completions? Something like this but for @jetbrains.com products stillat.com/antlers-tool...

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Antlers Toolbox | Stillat

A collection of kickass developer tools for Statamic developers. Tools include syntax highlighters, code completion, validation, formatters, and more!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 23/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, Since the latest update I've been getting this a bit. Is this a known issue or something specific to me? I've reported the issue via the IDE.

A warning "Plugin 'Laravel Idea' might be slowing things down"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

I really wish #php would add short methods public function getLevels(): array { return ['low', 'med', 'high']; } could be public fn getLevels(): array => ['low', 'med', 'high'];

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

I wonder if #laravel would accept a PR to allow adding a `getAdditionalPivotColumns` to your custom pivot models. public function getAdditionalPivotColumns(): array { return [ 'level', ]; } It would act the same as calling `->withPivot(['level'])` when creating the relationship.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/03/2025

Hey neat! @github.com Copilot now has Edits in @jetbrains.com products. Good to see us getting feature parity with @vscode.dev again.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 19/03/2025

Hey @typescriptlang.org and @react.dev people, For native elements is `ComponentProps<'button'>` always the right way to do it? What about for components that don't export their prop types? When wouldn't `ComponentProps<typeof SomeComponent>` work and how would you do it? #typescript #react

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/03/2025

Hey @jetbrains.com the completions are pretty sad for something I'd be paying $20NZD/month for... To create the screenshots below I have 3 files open UserTypeEnum, enums.php (current file), and VisibilityTypesEnum @github.com Copilot got it straight away, Meanwhile JB seems to have zero context.

Completion provided by Github Copilot showing the expected result.

Completion provided by Jetbrains Assistant showing a hallucinated result.

Attempting to give Jetbrains Assistant one more go, we've added an extra character and manually invoked the multiline completion. It still completely hallucinates the result.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/03/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com , I've added support for generating our enums via github.com/webfox/larav... Can I combine these two with a dropdown for the type (which would also change the 'value' param? Or allow users to add enum mappings directly in the dialog? I expect not but it doesn't hurt to ask!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

From a DX perspective, my favourite thing about Laravel Cloud is the search dialog.

A screenshot of the Laravel Cloud search dialog, showing search results grouped by "Navigation" "Organisations" and "Applications"

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/02/2025

So Laravel Cloud is pretty nice, bit odd not having a Sydney region though. Do you know why this is @driesvints.com?

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Laravel Idea @laravel-idea.com · 13/02/2025

Laravel Idea 10 is out! 🚀 It's probably the most significant update ever!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, Can we do anything with ide.json in our package to add a custom generation to this list? github.com/webfox/larav...

Laravel Idea "Run Action" dialog with the search results for "create"

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Laravel Idea @laravel-idea.com · 10/01/2025

Laravel Idea now is two high-skilled developers working full-time on features we couldn't dreamed about 1-2 years ago. The 10.0 release will blow your mind.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 10/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, At some point I'm going to need to start paying you for a custom support plan 😅 Today's query! Do you think you could make "Related Rows" in the database tools work for pivot columns? E.g. pressing F4 in either of these cells should open the media table with id 4 selected.

A screenshot of a database tool showing two column headers "retainable_type" and "retainable_id". The type column contains a class name of Media. the id column contains the value 4.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 08/01/2025

Also @laravel-idea.com, I'd love an intention here that would create the missing method for me.

A Jetbrains IDE context menu activated from a Laravel route definition with the cursor over the method name.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 07/01/2025

Hey @laravel-idea.com, The Run db:seed dialog is a bit weird. It asks for the class and then also the class flag. Also, do you think we could get completion for the seeder class names here? :)

A screenshot of the Run db:seed dialog from Laravel Idea.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 19/12/2024

Hey @jetbrains.com I have a question for you. This UI, are these interface elements specific to the Jetbrains AI plugin, or are they part of the intellij platform and usable by other AI plugins (e.g. if copilot wanted to). I'm just trying to work out why copilot's UX is so bad in PHPStorm.

Image showing the AI refactor suggestion by the Jetbrains AI plugin.

Image showing a prompt "Ask AI to generate code"

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James Hulena @jameshulena.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In New Zealand, we have a yearly fundraiser for LBCNZ, us firefighters climb 51 floors with all our gear. I am asking for anyone of you lovely people to get behind me. Every $1 counts. If you can't donate please share around. Thank you all! firefighterschallenge.org.nz/james-hulena

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Please support my Firefighter Sky Tower Challenge

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 16/12/2024

Hey @jetbrains.com What's the easiest way to move connections between PHPStorm and DataGrip?

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 15/12/2024

Hey @laravel-idea.com, reckon you could pick the route parameters from the route definition where a Form Request is used so we can get autocompletion of the parameters? Right now I add a docblock to my requests so I can use `$this->some_route_param`. You're a wizard if you can!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 12/12/2024

Can anyone confirm for me whether I adopted a #cat or #dog? I'm getting less sure as the days go on.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 07/12/2024

Accidentally queued millions of jobs into Laravel horizon on a server provisioned to expect at most a few hundred at once. Completely locked the ram and had to get the hosting company to physically reset the hardware as no one could connect to it.

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jasonmccreary.bsky.social @jasonmccreary.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hey you, with the old Laravel app… I know you're out there. December is slow for me so I have more time for "Human Shifts" - where I upgrade your Laravel app for you. So if you don't have the time (or desire) to upgrade that old thing, send it my way (or tell the boss to). 👇🏻

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 04/12/2024

How hot is it? Roughly "my cat is standing in the dogs drinking water" hot.

A black cat standing next to a tabby cat in a bucket of water

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 02/12/2024

Hey @laravel-idea.com, something interesting here. I can navigate from the view to the controller here, but can't navigate from the usage to the view.

Screenshot of PHPStorm showing "Cannot find declaration to go to" when attempting to navigate to a view from a pdf()->view('...') call in Laravel.

Screenshot of a valid "find usages" button in PHPStorm from the blade view shown in the previous screenshot and the text overlayed "Takes me to the pdf()->view() call".

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 30/11/2024

Hey, @imlunahey.com I thought you needed to see this. This is my cat. She did this to herself.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 27/11/2024

One of the best things about @laracon.au was the networking opportunities! Guess that's #laraconWrapped for this year!

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 26/11/2024

Was waiting for this. These are all great talks here but the main one I'm interested in sharing is from @marty.friedel.au. Amazing talk many more people need to see/hear. I'm sure many of us can relate. Go check it out.

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 25/11/2024

Hey @valorin.bsky.social, I have a question. If you've been hired to try to hack into or pentest a site, what do you ask your client to provide you?

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 22/11/2024

Saw the first screenshot and was thinking "you know what would be cool"... Opened the second screenshot... "Yeah that!" Lmao Nice work

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Matthew Hailwood @hailwood.nz · 21/11/2024

I'm pretty interested to see if @taylorotwell.bsky.social has any plans around #PHP8.4 property hooks in #laravel. Could they provide an alternative to accessor methods?

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Laracon AU @laracon.au · 13/11/2024

For those who left before High Tide last Friday (???) and those who couldn't make it to #LaraconAU this year, this is for you! 🎇 And yes, these were ours - the first video you see is from the pyrotechnician's vantage point. youtu.be/8HWeJhWwUww

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High Tide Fireworks - Laracon AU 2024

YouTube video by Laracon AU

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