Using factories, managing metadata, and pecking PHP

Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - move fast and fix things with application monitoring that helps developers get it done - and CodeRabbit - cut code review time and bugs in half with AI-driven, contextual feedback.

Show links

• A Fluent Email Validation Rule Added in Laravel 11.38 
• UseFactory Attribute Added in Laravel 11.39 
• Fluent Date Validation in Laravel 11.40 
• Laracon EU Amsterdam 2025 
• GGH is a Lightweight CLI to Recall Your SSH Sessions 
• DevDb - VS Code database management extension launches v2 
• Television is a Multi-purpose Fuzy Finder TUI 
• Lua - Laravel powered open-source URL shortener 
• Immutable Value Objects in PHP and Laravel With the Bags Package 
• Recurr is a PHP library for working with recurrence rules for calendar dates 
• Manage Metadata on Laravel Eloquent Models with JSON Support 
• Laravel Debounce 
• PeckPHP - A CLI tool designed to identify wording or spelling mistakes in your codebase 
• A Laravel Package to Use the Deepseek API With V3 AI Models 
• Create GitHub Issues from Exceptions and Logs in Laravel 
• DigitalOcean API Client for Laravel 
• Laravel Rewind is a Versioning Package for Eloquent 
• Laravel SpaceOCR: Parse Images and Multi-page PDFs in Laravel 
• Laravel Faker OpenAI 
• A Package to Manage Model Status in Laravel 
• SimpleStats: Analyze Beyond Visits – Discover Registrations, Revenue and Conversions in Minutes