Chris Keller

@taylorotwell @taylorotwell any plan to offer MariaDB 11.8 since it's technically LTS now and has native vector store support? (as opposed to waiting on PG or MySQL 9.x to become LTS)

MySQL 8.4 is now available via Forge managed databases. ⚡️ Forge managed databases allow you to have a fully managed database where don’t need to maintain the underlying server, and can be easily accessed by any of your Laravel VPS servers. Available via the “Resources” tab on your Forge dashboard. forge.laravel.com

@hnshah @hnshah check out what @aaronwhite is up to with Appy.ai!

This video recording of a live AI session I hosted explains how it all works. hiten.com/library/how-to…

Shopify has figured out what makes AI work inside of companies. This is exactly what I've been doing at my companies since OpenClaw came out. Get a bot in Slack for team usage in public channels and it'll feel like the future.

@wendell_adriel @jclermont Got it, thanks! I wasn't looking in the Workos branch specifically but now see the commits I was looking for. cc @jclermont

@ckeller @jclermont These are in the starter kit repos in the workos branch: github.com/laravel/vue-st… github.com/laravel/react-… github.com/laravel/livewi…

Almost 1 week at the Laravel Open Source Team focused on the Starter Kits! 🔥 Here are some of the main things that we shipped this week on the Starter Kits: [IMPROVEMENT] Improved the contrast for the QR Code on the 2FA setup on dark mode [FIX] Components now update immediately when the theme changes [IMPROVEMENT] Accessibility improvements to the Settings pages and navigation, adding headings for screen readers and an ARIA label to the settings sub-navigation [FIX/IMPROVEMENT] A new composable/hook was added to verify the current URL, standardizing the checks across the whole codebase and across the starter kit [IMPROVEMENT] Sidebar icon update for React/Vue starter kits to show a diff icon depending on the sidebar status [FIX/IMPROVEMENT] Update User factory to not enable 2FA by default and provide a withTwoFactor to create users with 2FA enabled to use on tests when needed [FIX] When using WorkOS, if the session is lost, it will now redirect to the intended route after authentication [FIX] WORKOS_REDIRECT_URL now uses the APP_URL to be compliant with the Laravel docs [IMPROVEMENT] Bumped Inertia version to the latest in all starter kits Many thanks to all the contributors who made this happen! 🫶🔥🚀

@ankurnagpal People were mentioning a week ago that with this great QSBS expansion, they also made AMT apply to it which obviously wasn’t the case before and would negate all the benefits. Do you know if that was true or ultimately removed? cc @bbalfour

1 - America's biggest tax break for startup founders & investors gets even more generous QSBS allows C-Corp shareholders to pay no taxes on exit This bill raises the limit to $15M, has partial benefits kick in after 3 years & allows a company to qualify up to $75M in assets

The new tax bill that just passed into law is the single most significant piece of legislation we have had in 8+ years Here is everything you should know as a high-income professional or business owner: Bookmark this thread as I'll be updating it over the weekend

It's amazing how well it works!

@laravelnews I'm surprised when your newsletter doesn't arrive! Do you all just take some weeks off or didn't get the content scheduled to send in advance? Just curious!

lastly, I hope you get to meet @ivzhou sometime. He's one of our former portfolio company CEOs, now a Partner at @Accel, and he's awesome :)

third, I know you abhor calls or meetings, but if you or someone on your team ever want to geek out on @laravelphp and world of startups (VC funded or bootstrapped), happy to chat whenever.

@taylorotwell first, congrats on the round with @Accel, that's amazing. second, I may be the only VC that's been coding with @laravelphp since 2015 and have loved watching its evolution. it's so delightful to use, @NextGenVP's custom Platform is built with Laravel

🚀 Exciting news! We're thrilled to introduce Narrow AI, our new Automated Prompt Engineering and Optimization platform for AI developers. Say goodbye to "model anxiety" and hello to effortless LLM workflow scaling!

@SandroChess @ankurnagpal Ahh yes, I'm familiar with that article, but just not the 1099 requirement while a LLC as employees of those typically have profits interest or phantom units (LLCs are weird that way :) if you're giving "equity" and I've seen those get converted to shares once a C corp.

@ckeller @ankurnagpal Your employees need to be 1099 while you are an llc. They can flip to w2 employees when you switch to c corp. This is the best article I found on it although I’m not sure if it speaks to the 1099 part www-cooleygo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cooley…

QSBS is an absurdly generous tax break for founders to pay zero taxes when they sell their company on up to $10M With smart tax planning they can multiply $10M to $20, $30 or $40M But crazily enough, there’s a loophole for founders to pay no taxes on almost $500M! Here’s how:

@timacdonald87 I had somehow missed the keyBy method which does exactly what I was looking for! No PR needed ;-) Though I was curious if keyBy is more performant or memory efficient than doing the same thing in a foreach loop? #method-keyby" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laravel.com/docs/10.x/coll…

@timacdonald87 Sounds good and thanks for that alternative!

@timacdonald87 just noticed the 2nd param of the pluck() method (#retrieving-a-list-of-column-values" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">laravel.com/docs/10.x/quer…) has no one brought up extending the first param to be an array of cols? 1 of the most common use cases I see (& need) is returning DB records indexed by their rec id to refer to in the view

@SandroChess @ankurnagpal I certainly know that investors don't like LLCs though as one myself, an ideal world would be investing in a LLC to let your fund's investors actually benefit from the losses incurred and then have your port co's switch to a C corp if a profit is in site [ignoring QSBS clock :( ]

@SandroChess @ankurnagpal Sorry for the delay in responding. You actually highlighted a point I'm unfamiliar with in terms of the 1099 requirement. You mean while a LLC or once you're a C Corp? Can you point to an article that speaks about this?

@ankurnagpal @SandroChess Alessandro, can you explain that further? I'm very familiar with QSBS and not sure what you're implying or why you say "would not recommend", thx.

@SandroChess Great call (& appreciate you sharing)

@timacdonald87 Essentially you pass less data to the client (i.e. one list of user data) and it's easily referenced by the user ids in the other contexts you're displaying. Thus why it seemed like one could create: pluck(['fname','lname'], id) or pluck(['*'], id) or a new method if needed.

@timacdonald87 Sure. Say you had a dashboard that showed app users in various contexts, e.g. most recent, took some actions, delinquent etc. instead of joining user info on each of those queries, it's easier to just have the user records by id in an array u can reference in those loops.