Cool Things - July 31, 2026

Welp, my flight home from Laracon US is now delayed past the point where we should be landing, so this is the stuck-in-the-airport-first-world-problem edition of cleaning up tabs.

From Safari

• The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool – Yup. It is tiring.
• Your Google Maps API Key Now Has Access to Gemini Al - And You Were Never Told – Check your keys kids. One of the Good Things[tm]? of SOC2 is you have to do this ish quarterly.
• Magazine Publishing Essentials – ‘on‑demand 101‑level sessions, curated and hosted by Joyce Byrne, break down the fundamentals of running a small magazine today’
• Architecture Decision Record – As I help migrate an app, I’m thinking more and more about ADRs to feed into the robots.
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• How PHP Attributes Changed the Way I Write Livewire – Attributes and Enums are being surprisingly hard to get my brain to adopt. Using robots to write code isn’t helping.
• Multi-Agent Orchestration in Laravel: When You Actually Need It – More real examples like this please. There are infinite gotchas using LLMs for things.
• Using property hooks in PHP – ‘I tend to reserve methods for behaviours or complex logic, and defer to virtual properties for simple derived values’
• Prompt-Injection Guardrails in Laravel: Defend the Tools, Not the Prompt – see above gotchas comment.
• Working Effectively with Claude Code – Claude Code moves so fast. /btw is super cool.