Laravel 13.20, released on July 14, 2026, introduces a first-party image processing component via the new `Illuminate\Image` and `Image` facade. The component supports GD and Imagick drivers, integrat…
A developer built a website from scratch over three weeks using PHP 8.2+, vanilla JavaScript, a custom CSS design system, and Claude Code as an AI development partner, enforcing strict layer separatio…
A developer built GoalPulse AI, an automated WhatsApp football companion using PHP, Meta Graph API, and Google AI (Gemini). The bot generates passionate, emotionally charged responses to live match up…
MailKite launches an email API designed for AI agents, offering parsed JSON inboxes and a receive-reply loop as an alternative to Mailgun's rule-engine-based inbound handling. The service targets deve…
MailKite launched a service that gives AI agents their own email inboxes on custom domains, enabling autonomous email handling without IMAP or MIME parsing. Developers can either run agents themselves…
A developer revived a seven-year-old PHP framework project called Univeros, now rebuilt as an agent-native PHP 8.3+ framework. The framework generates entire application slices from a single YAML spec…
A developer warns that AI-generated PHP code is creating a generation of Laravel operators who lack fundamental PHP knowledge, citing a case where a developer using Claude copied a controller that use…
A developer with 25+ years of experience in Python, PHP, and LAMP stack is transitioning into AI engineering, focusing on local LLMs, offline AI setups, and practical model deployment. The individual …
A veteran software engineer argues that AI has sharpened the distinction between true engineers who understand computer systems and tool operators who only know specific frameworks. The author warns t…
A developer built five custom automation solutions for small and medium businesses, costing between EUR 500 and EUR 5,000. The projects included price scraping for an auto parts e-commerce site, autom…
A developer outlines practical workflows for using AI agents in Laravel and Symfony projects, emphasizing analysis over code generation. The agent should first map backend flows, identify entry points…
VibePHP, a satirical PHP runtime that uses AI to simulate code execution without actually running it, was announced. The runtime invents database results, system calls, and other data on the fly, trad…
A developer building the NENE2 PHP framework argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools should call application boundaries, not production databases directly. The framework enforces this by mappin…
A developer's comparison of Python and PHP in 2026 concludes that Python is the better choice for beginners and those interested in AI/ML, while PHP remains strong for WordPress, client sites, and Lar…
A developer built Niriv, a custom WordPress-powered internet portal featuring search engine capabilities, news aggregation, business directories, and community features. The project was accelerated us…
A developer debugging a production-only 500 error on their blog discovered that GitHub Copilot had introduced infinite recursion in a Markdown library. The bug only manifested on the production server…
Neuron AI released an LLM classifier package for PHP that routes prompts to the appropriate model based on difficulty. The package trains offline on user-specific models and runs in microseconds with …
Jolidon HOUNGUE, a web developer from Benin, has joined DEV.to to share projects and connect with the tech community. He works with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, SQL, Linux, and Git, and is cur…
A developer with 12+ years of Magento experience built a RAG-powered code review tool that understands project-specific patterns, not just generic advice. The tool indexes a codebase using tree-sitter…
Sebastian De Deyne argues that lower-level languages like Go are becoming more viable as AI tools handle the complexity of writing code, reducing the pain of their "crudeness." The developer, who rece…