Mathy Ustrod

And, no matter how badly torn in many places, the fabric of this life will never fray beyond mending; there'd be, at least, one more chance to patch up.

After weeks of coding, my School Management System is finally complete! Teachers can enter results, students get instant report cards, and I can manage everything from one dashboard. Built with vanilla PHP + MySQL. 💪 #SchoolManagement #PHP #CodingJourney

What’s the most confusing PHP concept you’ve encountered? Was it OOP, namespaces, or something else? Share your thoughts —let’s help each other grow #PHPTalks #WebDevelopment

Use strict typing in your PHP files to reduce unexpected bugs. Example: declare(strict_types=1); This ensures better type safety and cleaner code. #PHPTalks #PHPDevelopers

I finally had the chance to do some more exploration with @nativephp and some side quests 😂 I vibe coded a little movie show tracking app that notifies you when a new episode of your favorite show comes out. You can have a look at the project here: github.com/DanielMabadeje…

Hello everyone, today is Day 100 of 365 Days of Code 🎉 I’ve stayed consistent through this journey, and it has been really great. I’m proud of the progress I’ve made so far. I’m currently building Studeylearn (@studeylearn), an AI-powered study and learning platform designed to improve how students study and learn. Today I worked on the school course screen. I built the screen that shows detailed information about a specific school course, along with additional tools to support learning such as viewing the course outline, accessing course materials, past questions, watching video resources, and tracking personal assignments.

Most dashboards try to show everything. The best ones show one thing perfectly. I call this the Spotlight dashboard. Here's the idea. Someone asks "how's cash looking?" You don't dig through 5 tabs. You don't open 3 reports. You don't start sweating while everyone waits. You pull up one screen. Pick the metric. Pick the time period. Done. Revenue this month. Cash trailing 12. Opex YTD. Gross margin last quarter. One dropdown and it's there. Check the images. See how the whole screen focuses on just one number? That's the point. No distractions. No clutter. On the right side you get context. vs Prior Period. vs Prior Year. vs Budget. Click on. Click off. Trend chart shows where it's been. Comparisons tell you if that's good or bad. Here's why I love this. Board meetings are unpredictable. Someone always asks about something you didn't prepare for. Classic. With this? Switch the dropdown. Answer's right there. No more "let me get back to you on that." No more scrambling while everyone watches. We've all been there. You just know. This dashboard is inside Model Wiz. Model Wiz is a free Excel add-in that allows you to connect your QuickBooks Online, pull your data, and the Spotlight just works. Any metric. Any time period. It's all there. What's the first question your CEO usually asks?

Stop using ::all() in production. With 100k rows it'll crash your server. Laravel gives you 6 smarter ways to handle large datasets — and most devs only know one. chunk vs chunkById vs cursor vs cursorPaginate — I break them all down 👇 youtu.be/Bw5Ts0yd108 #Laravel #PHP

When moving form logic into middleware, consider whether it should be global or route-specific. Global isn’t always safe for one-time tokens.

Photographer Scott Sessions captured a Male peregrine falcon cleaning its talons on the cliff side.

A data table with 29,000 Blade components. Livewire 3: 1.6 seconds. Livewire 4: 131 milliseconds. Same data. Same PHP. Same Laravel. ⚡ Livewire 4 launched in January 2026 and it’s the biggest release since the framework’s inception. Here’s what changed: 📄 Single-File Components — PHP class + Blade template + JavaScript in one file. The ⚡ emoji prefix is real. It’s valid Unicode and it works. 🌊 Islands — wrap expensive parts in @island tags. They render and poll independently. Slow DB queries stop blocking your entire page. ⚡ Blaze Compiler — pre-renders static Blade parts at compile time. 20x faster rendering. Zero config changes to your templates. 🎥 wire:transition — one attribute. Hardware-accelerated, native View Transitions API animations. No Alpine wrappers. No CSS coordination. 🔄 Parallel Requests — wire:model.live no longer queues requests. Type fast. UI stays responsive. 💭 Slots & Attributes — Blade-style named slots and $attributes forwarding. Most-requested feature since v1. 🔌 PHP 8.4 Property Hooks — native getters and setters replace Livewire lifecycle hooks. Caleb Porzio’s goal: “Make the fast way the easy way.” Livewire 4 delivers. I wrote the complete deep dive for Islands with real dashboard examples, Blaze benchmarks, upgrade notes, and the Livewire 4 vs Inertia 3 comparison. Are you upgrading from v3? 👇 #Laravel #Livewire #PHP #WebDevelopment #100DaysOfBlogging medium.com/p/livewire-4-t…

My new video on Filament Daily channel. @filamentphp Edit Form: Livewire Sidebar with Buttons and Custom CSS youtube.com/watch?v=x1WEDT…

#Laravel #PHP Do you prefer sending mail inline or using a Mailable class? 👇

pest v4.5 is out you can now mark tests as flaky - pest will retry them automatically before reporting a failure you may also use --flaky just to run the flaky ones

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 In the recent release of Laravel v13.4.0, we now have some new methods added to the Queue class. These new methods are pendingJobs(), delayedJobs(), and reservedJobs(). I personally find this very useful when working with database queues, to analyse the behaviour of my queue just by using Tinker. You can also build your own command, page, or whatever you wish to keep track of your jobs. What else would you like to have as part of the framework? #laravel #php

Every day I see people building incredible things with Laravel - from solo side projects to apps serving millions. This community never stops inspiring me. It's the best place to build your next big idea. 🚀

Hey Laravel Developers 👩‍💻 I often get questioned about why I add declare(strict_types=1) to the top of every file. So basically, having this statement protects me from pesky, unnoticeable errors that might occur due to PHP's type conversion system. Below is a code example that will explain how my code behaves with and without this strict type declaration. This is extremely useful when your application depends on a lot of external data. For me, it's a must-have. Let me know about you! #laravel #php

I wanted a way record my transactions without typing every transaction manually. I use MoMo a lot, and every transaction comes with an SMS. That led to an obvious question: what if the app could pick the data from those messages and log it straight automatically This is SikaSafe

New Laravel package! SanderMuller/laravel-fluent-validation: Fluent and extremely fast validation for Laravel github.com/SanderMuller/l… For large arrays, the HasFluentRules trait makes wildcard validation up to 97x faster.

In Laravel 13 starter kit TEAMS, there are three default roles: Admin, Owner, Member. How to add more roles? Here's my 2-minute video about it, extracted from my newest course. Full 33-minute short course here (40% off this week!): laraveldaily.com/course/laravel…

"PHP is dead" they said. Meanwhile i'm shipping Yii2 · Inertia v3 · React 19 · shadcn/ui · Tailwind v4 · Vite 8. Welcome to 2026 PHP. 🐘⚛️