Upgrading From Laravel 12 to Laravel 13: The Practical Guide
The Laravel 13 upgrade is mostly painless — but three config areas will silently change how your app behaves if you skip them. Here's what actually changed and what's worth adopting.
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I’m Steven, a software engineer and technical leader based in the west coast of Scotland. I’m the CTO at Digitonic, where we develop technologies for the investor relations and igaming industries.
The Complete Guide to the Laravel AI SDK in Laravel 13
Laravel 13 ships a first-party AI SDK that replaces the patchwork of vendor SDKs and community packages. Here's how to use every capability — agents, streaming, structured output, tools, embeddings and RAG — in one working project.
Stop Using parse_url(): PHP 8.5's URI Extension Explained
PHP 8.5 ships a built-in URI extension that replaces parse_url() with immutable, type-safe objects. No third-party package needed.
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