Suppose you have a web app that lets users upload photos. Cool! But there's a catch: photos straight from a phone camera can easily be around 8 MB each. On a weak mobile connection, uploading the full...

Imagine you need to integrate AI into your web app. Let's say you want to quickly translate text. Preferably, you'd like to use something free and open source (you don't want any surprise bills at the...

At Tighten, we use Slack for all our internal communication. It's where we chat, share ideas, and keep everyone up to date. And today, with AI becoming increasingly present in our workflows, the quest...

AI is a tool. Revolutionary. Generational. But a tool nonetheless. And a tool is only as effective as a human is at using it. We’ve been learning to use AI as a tool for a while now, and we’re even.....

Imagine: You’re about to board a commercial flight. Directly ahead of you in line, you learn, is the person who engineered this very model of plane. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art technology!, th...

“Why should I use AI?” Ask our AI pundits this question, and you’ll get the same answer (with drastically...

You might be wondering, “How are we three years into the hype and still asking something as basic as ‘What even is AI?’” Well, as we established in the...

By now, every dev (and business leader) feels some type of way about AI. How could we not? Every time you open the news, listen to a podcast, or visit your favorite social media site, you're hearing....

If you attended Laracon US this year, or if you're big into Livewire, you might already have heard about Blaze. Blaze is a new drop-in package...

Have you ever wished you could just ask your documents a question and get an answer? That's exactly what RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) lets you do. It's the technique behind those AI chatbots.....

What if you could build richer hierarchies, add shared behavior across models, and make your data immutable while retaining historical data—all without Event Sourcing or graph databases? Delegated Typ...

Parental v1.5.0 introduces three new features for Single Table Inheritance in Laravel: types can now transition to other types with the become() method, you can use integer columns instead of strings,...

AI is everywhere. It can create songs, build entire apps, and even drive our cars. But... can it play Pictionary? We're about to find out. Today, we're building an AI-powered drawing guessing game. I...

Imagine your team wants to bring AI into their workflow to automate routine tasks, extract insights from data, assist with content creation, or improve customer support. Smart move! You can integrate...

JavaScript: the language many love to hate. Yeah, we've all seen the memes about its quirks and limitations. Maybe that's why we slap a whole typing system on top of it. And add one, two, or... ten th...

Do you remember your first interaction with a computer? Perhaps it was through a command-line interface, where typing commands allowed the machine to perform the desired actions. A few years later, gr...

Vibe code your way to the high score!

In our previous Rich Text post, we implemented file attachments using the Rich Text Laravel package, but we've only touched...

Seeders allow us to quickly fill our database with records to test our application. Let's say that you need a couple of users to test your authentication system—you could create them manually using yo...

Typesense is making waves in the search landscape. Since its inclusion as an officially supported driver for Laravel Scout,...

When we build forms for an application, it's common to need a field where a plain textarea isn't enough. So how do we proceed? We could process it on the backend and treat the input as Markdown, but t...

In most applications, administrators need a way to manage data. Whether it's a blog's articles and comments, a store's products and orders, or a theater's events and tickets, admins need a place to li...

Takeout is a convenient layer on top of Docker that lets you quickly spin up services without looking up the images and how to run them. Need a Redis service locally?...

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