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02 JUN 2026 Article

Laravel Expressive: Typed Objects for Eloquent

I've been a developer now for a long time and over the years I've had the pleasure of being able to use different frameworks to build different applications. From CodeIgniter, Zend through to CakePHP and of course Laravel.

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01 APR 2026 Golf

A messy 9 holes at Great Barr

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05 JAN 2026 Article

Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications.

Here's a scenario we encounter regularly at Jump24: a client has a legacy application - perhaps built in CakePHP, CodeIgniter, or even a custom framework - and they want to add automated browser testing. The catch? They don't want to pollute the existing codebase with test dependencies, and frankly, the application wasn't built with testing in mind.

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02 JAN 2026 Top Ten

Top Ten Laravel And PHP Things - 1-1-2026

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30 DEC 2025 Article

Fatherhood, First Talks, and Finally Trusting Myself: 2025 in Review

If you'd asked me at the start of 2025 what the year would look like, I don't think I could have predicted just how much would change. Some years are about big career moves or business milestones. This year was about something far more important.

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27 DEC 2025 Article

Inertia.js Once Props: Stop Sending the Same Data Over and Over Again

We've been long time fans of Inertia.js here at Jump24 and honestly, it's become our go-to for building modern Laravel applications without the faff of maintaining a separate API layer. Between deferred props, prefetching, and partial reloads, the Inertia team has been absolutely smashing it with performance features lately.

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26 DEC 2025 Top Ten

whenTableHasIndex and whenTableDoesntHaveIndex DX Improvements you'll enjoy

A small run down of a PR that was recently merged and released into the Laravel framework. This PR brings in two new Schema methods whenTableHasIndex and whenTableDoesntHaveIndex that although small give a great DX Improvement when writing your migrations.

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05 DEC 2025 Video