Week ending January 8, 2026
It's Friday It's been snowing and I've seen and read so much AI related stuff this week it's crazy. Am I the only one out there who has? In between all things AI I've managed to put together 10 great post this week that are Laravel or PHP related one or two might be AI related sorry 😆.
it's a post by myself, now I know you're thinking come on Dan don't be like that, but I had an itch that I had to scratch earlier in the week and played around with a small experiment and it worked - "Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications." I'd love to know what you all think about this one -
its Yunus Emre Deligöz with another three articles from his "Flaky test chronicles", I featured the first one in a previous top ten well it looks like he's been busy writing more articles for the series, I've linked to the first one here but you can find the rest on the blog -
we have Mattias Geniar with "Web Development is fun again" In this post Mattias talks about how he's started to enjoy developing again thanks to using AI tools, the world of development moves so fast and keeping up with this ever evolving world is so difficult. as he mentions its making it harder and harder to have a deeper domain knowledge of all these new things especially if you were a solo dev -