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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 28/07/2026

Here’s a new one: Claude just told Codex (as the reviewer) to "restate its verdict in neutral engineering language", so we don’t burn tokens on both agents.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 03/06/2026

Solo by Aaron Francis feels magical and you should try it. Codex was reaching the 5h limit, so I told the orchestrator to collect it's work and pass it to Claude including scratchpads and todos. Soooo gooood!

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 29/04/2026

As much as I want to ditch Arc as my main browser, I really like its look, the profile switcher and the command palette. Should I give Helium, Zen or Brave another try?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 09/04/2026

Is it just me, or am I seeing fewer and fewer code-snippet screenshots posted on social media, especially on X? Are we all just burning tokens now?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 08/04/2026

Spending the day with WordPress again. Using Claude Code with Playwright and the frontend design plugin is a powerful combo to improve full site editing themes.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 02/04/2026

Super excited for a long Easter weekend off. My wife and I have gotten so tired that we didn't even realize it. Time to relax and eat some chocolate.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 28/03/2026

Migrating 10+ GB of MySQL data to Postgres completed. Ran into a few annoying quirks in the production environment using pgloader, but eventually it worked. Now monitoring and weekend mode.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 25/03/2026

Played with pgloader configs today. The error messages are really cool. Managed to migrate a 10+ GB MySQL database to Postgres. I'll be migrating the production Laravel app this weekend.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 23/03/2026

I've always been impressed by Remotion, but the combination with the best practice AI skills just blew me away today. Feed it some assets in an existing project and some stills of scenes. Claude took it and asked for the dynamic parts and built some fine animations 🤯

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 09/01/2026

Neglected a small Laravel app for a while and decided to upgrade it and move it to a new server on forge. Took a few minutes and all was up and running again. The Laravel VPS on Forge are impressive tbh.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 05/01/2026

Back at work after a three-week break. Did I miss anything besides the lifted token limits for Claude?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 04/11/2025

I love how Claude Code pats itself on the shoulder from one agent to another for the excellent research a lot lately. Everybody needs some pampering 😍.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 30/09/2025

Last month I deployed a Filament + Livewire app that was written by Claude Code. I wrote less than 300 lines. The client had a limited budget, but it worked. I ended up adding some nice-to-have features. Would you read a blog post about it?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 29/09/2025

Uff, after upgrading to macOS and iOS 26, my Logitech MX Keys S keyboard doesn't connect to either device. Neither Bluetooth nor the Logi Bolt works. Of course I no longer have the receipt, and the Logi support bot is useless. Is this a known issue, or did my keyboard break?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 29/09/2025

First day at work after 20 days of vacation with my wife. I feel so refreshed. Before, I was using Claude Code a lot. Is it still good, or should I give Codex a try? I downgraded right before the vacation, so I'm open to giving Codex a try.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 13/09/2025

Scotland kind of feels like the "Switzerland isn't real" meme.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 08/09/2025

Once Laravel Cloud supports Reverb, I'll be moving a bigger app to it 🤗

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 04/09/2025

I really like the navigation in Laravel Cloud and decided to build it in Filament v4. Check out the tutorial and code ⬇️ silvanhagen.com/writing/lar...

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Laravel Cloud Navigation in Filament 4

A tutorial on how to build a custom top navigation in Filament 4 that looks similar to the breadcrumb navigation in Laravel Cloud

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 04/09/2025

Here is the tutorial with demo repo on how to build a Laravel Cloud breadcrumb navigation in Filament v4 silvanhagen.com/writing/lara...

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Laravel Cloud Navigation in Filament 4

A tutorial on how to build a custom top navigation in Filament 4 that looks similar to the breadcrumb navigation in Laravel Cloud

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 28/08/2025

A few weeks ago, I had my Aaron Francis moment. Someone contacted me to mentor them with a Filament project, all because of my Youtube videos and blog posts. That felt wonderful.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 26/08/2025

Today marks what would have been my grandfather's 100th birthday. He passed over a decade ago, but I still cherish our conversations. He was a fascinating man, and many buildings he designed still stand in and around Lucerne. I have to visit the city archives someday.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 25/08/2025

Working on a Laravel Cloud-style navigation for a Filament v4 project, and it's coming along nicely. 🤗 If you're interested in a tutorial, the code, or both, let me know!

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nunomaduro @nunomaduro.com · 21/08/2025

Pest v4 is here — now with browser testing! Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in. Discover Pest v4 — and our new website: pestphp.com?ref=v4

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Pest | The elegant PHP testing framework

Pest is a testing framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 18/08/2025

I wonder how complex it would be to build a Filament v4 navigation in the style of Laravel Cloud. Anyone tried this already?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 17/08/2025

Filament V4 Tip: Multitenants and Nested Resources When your nested resource model uses a hasOneThrough relationship to your tenant model, you might want to disable the tenancy for the nested resource (of course check that your authorization works).

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 14/08/2025

Now that Laravel Boost is out, I need to rethink my own Claude Code hooks, agents and commands. Combining them in a project worked quite well, but I need to remove some MCPs that do the same as boost.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 14/08/2025

Is there already a betting platform on who will join Laravel Inc. next? I have a few guesses 😅

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Christoph Rumpel @christophrumpel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚀 Laravel Boost is here Let me show you how to elevate your AI tools and boost your Laravel development. youtu.be/sUtRcpma8iU PS: Thank you @ashleyhindle.com 👏

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Getting Started with Laravel Boost

YouTube video by Laravel

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 08/08/2025

Gave Warp with GPT5 a try this morning to compare it to Claude Code, it's not bad but it does overengineer stuff in my experiments, even when told not to do so.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 03/08/2025

I really wanted to like Apple Reminders and used it for a year as my personal task list. However, the UI on macOS led me back to Things 3. The keyboard shortcuts are fantastic, it integrates well with Apple Shortcuts and finally Siri is good enough to understand my accent 😅

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 01/08/2025

Baking with my wife in progress 😍

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 30/07/2025

Played around with Google Gemini CLI in a larger Laravel app, but it didn't give me the same quality of results as using Claude Code. What is your experience? Especially interested in Livewire and Filament apps.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 29/07/2025

Just published some new Livewire projects on Wire in the Wild. In time for Laracon and the next Livewire release. It's great to see Swiss institutions adopting Livewire 😍

Screenshot of wireinthewild.com the website that collects all Laravel Livewire projects

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 25/07/2025

It feels odd to take a Friday off to attend a friends wedding. I guess I need a proper vacation 😅

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Tobias Petry @tpetry.me · 22/07/2025

The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started! You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months! Please RT for reach ❤️ stateoflaravel.com/participate?...

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The State of Laravel Survey

This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 22/07/2025

My Tuesday evening entertainment: Rowing and listening to Mostly Technical.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 21/07/2025

Cool WordPress trick in GenerateBlocks 2.0 to display the full content of a blog post in a Query Loop block. 1. Add Custom HTML 2. Insert  3. It renders the post content

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 21/07/2025

When using AI to help with tests in your projects, make sure that you properly mock all API and other HTTP calls. In Laravel, you can use Http::preventStrayRequests(); when using Http.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 21/07/2025

Working on a multi-step onboarding workflow combining Filament and Livewire. Should the tips and the buttons be in the white panel or outside?

Onboarding Screen for a SaaS app allowing you to prioritize certain pages from your website

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 16/07/2025

For the first time in two weeks, I truly enjoyed writing code myself, and it's only partially because Claude Code got significantly worse. Had some much fun refactoring components in a large Laravel app.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 16/07/2025

New kind of spam email unlocked 😅 1. Post on WordPress org support forums 2. Mention Block 3. Get an email where someone is suggesting their services That's a first and I'm not even mad

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 15/07/2025

Claude limits just reset a few minutes ago and it’s overloaded 😅

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 11/07/2025

Two things keep bothering me in PHPStorm on macOS. 1️⃣ The title of one project constantly changes to providers.php and I have no clue why. 2️⃣ No matter what I do, after every restart, the switch between project windows CMD+< is reset Is anyone having weird issues like that?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 10/07/2025

I really, really want to like the Zen browser as a replacement for the abandoned Arc, but the font rendering and the developer tools are driving me crazy.

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 23/06/2025

It's strange how Apple Shortcuts all of a sudden stop working or break without any obvious reason. Is anyone else having issues with them constantly?

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Silvan Hagen @silvanhagen.com · 17/06/2025

Got Laravel Nightwatch running in 5min on a production server. The only thing I had to change was the port the agent listens too. Can't wait to see how we can improve the app.

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