Gaurav Makhecha
@gauravmakhecha
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Building artisans | Laravel, Vue.js Fan | Sharing useful tweets for Laravel developers | A Speaker
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Joined February 2012
*gets up on soap box* With the announcement of this new "code mode" from Anthropic and Cloudflare, I've gotta rant about LLMs, MCP, and tool-calling for a second Let's all remember where this started LLMs were bad at writing JSON So OpenAI asked us to write good JSON schemas
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Simplifying the decision to use Sanctum or Passport for API authentication. π§ββοΈ Building API and need to give users API keys β do you want them to obtain those keys through an OAuth flow? If yes, use Passport (it's a library specifically for doing OAuth). If no, use Sanctum.
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This is the biggest update to server management since 2014. β Instant Laravel VPS servers β Zero downtime deployments β Team terminal sessions β Free on-forge domains β Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics
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Announcing @ChromeDevTools MCP! π Connect your AI coding agent to Chrome's powerful automation & debugging capabilities with ease. Key features: β
Reliable automation: It can programmatically handle clicks, form fills, dialogs, and page navigation with ease. β
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Iβve deployed a simple micro-service called Request Mirror https://t.co/MTC0xokvHl Send a request, and Request Mirror will respond instantly with JSON containing all properties of the original request. Perfect for API development, webhook testing, and learning HTTP.
request-mirror.ohdear.app
The simple HTTP request testing tool. Send a request and get instant JSON response with all request details. Perfect for API development, webhook testing, and learning HTTP. Free service by Oh Dear.
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π Gemini in Chrome - Prompt Injection Demo A demo I created 2+ years ago for Bing Chat in Edge worked at first try with Gemini in Chrome. π₯³
ICYMI: We just announced some exciting AI features coming to Chrome π¦ See all the highlights from Behind the Browser: AI Edition now. Watch here: https://t.co/FX5i4gVi7e
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Today we open Laravel MCP (beta) to the public! Laravel MCP is a library that makes it simple to build Model Context Protocol servers in your Laravel apps. This gives AI clients (like Claude, Cursor, & ChatGPT) a structured way to interact with your application. It's already
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The Laravel Bootcamp is back! Alongside it is a new PHP Fundamentals mini-course. Both are free and perfect for anyone brand new to PHP or Laravel. https://t.co/6Sx3dmlu5N
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Kickstart your Laravel journey with free mini video courses. Learn PHP fundamentals and Laravel basics through bite-sized lessons and real-world projects.
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THE COURSEBOI MANIFESTO (How to Not Get Scammed) First off, not all courses are scams, many teach real skills... But COURSEBOIS are an entirely different beast. They spawn from the black, soulless Nether of Low Ethicsβ’οΈ when one (or both) of these scenarios happens: 1. A new
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Pest v4 is here β now with browser testing! β¨ Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in.
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Great opportunity
We're expanding our team and are looking for part-time customer support to join us. Your ideal profile is: A) You're an excellent communicator in English B) Are empathic, listens to the customer & are motivated C) Understand enough PHP & Laravel to translate small bug reports
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I think the Laravel error page should get a boost as well. I just submitted a PR that adds a "Copy as Markdown" button to the default Laravel error view and I think this is pretty awesome π₯
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Laravel Boost has shipped. Boost is a local MCP server that accelerates your AI-assisted development by providing the essential context and structure that AI needs to generate high-quality, Laravel-specific code. Installs in seconds. Auto-detects your IDEs and tools like
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Laravel-focused MCP server for augmenting your AI powered local development experience. - laravel/boost
The Laravel Boost beta has officially started π Accelerate your AI-assisted development now at https://t.co/Jz1tmHsrR4 π
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Today we release gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20bβtwo open-weight LLMs that deliver strong performance and agentic tool use. Before release, we ran a first of its kind safety analysis where we fine-tuned the models to intentionally maximize their bio and cyber capabilities π§΅
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Today we announced the next generation of @laravelphp Forge! We introduced: - Zero downtime deployments - Heartbeats and health checks - Hosted https://t.co/0owdpwFRWo domains - Laravel VPS - An all new command palette - and more! https://t.co/sRp5qZstb8
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All the highlights from Laracon 2025, including Laravel Cloud autoscaling, Forge upgrades, framework changes, and Nightwatch pricing.
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Zero downtime deployments are going to be baked into Laravel Forge! Finally π
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Day 1 of Laracon is live on YouTube: β Aaron Francis β Nuno Maduro β TJ Miller β Mary Perry β Thiery Laverdure β Chris Morrell β John Drexler β Taylor Otwell & Laravel Team https://t.co/UEXEpyjA5v
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Here's a quick two-step solution if you need to authenticate with two different accounts and SSH keys on the same host. This approach works for both Bitbucket and GitHub.
masteringlaravel.io
Just two simple steps
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