Top Ten Laravel And PHP Things - 26-12-2025

It's Friday and this is the last top ten of the year! I've been looking back and this is my 80th top ten in a row! Man I've done a lot of reading and watching!

I've had a lot of fun putting these together and I'm really looking forward to what the Laravel and PHP community put out next year, so with that in mind lets kick off the last top ten of the year!

In 🥇 place this week and it was the last piece of the Advent from Laravel is Taylor Otwell with "2025 and beyond" - Taylor reflects on what the Laravel team have achieved in 2025 and his vision for 2026 and a call to all Laravel developers out there to "Ship Something" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/lCvVe

In 🥈 place this week it's Maxim Fomichev with "Simulating Сoncurrent Requests: How We Achieved High-Performance HTTP in PHP Without Threads" Max is an Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat. In this post Max goes through how the Manychat team overcame a number of challenges that im sure we've all come across with handling high-concurrency - https://t.ly/8PAqC

In 🥉 place this week it's Nico Devs over on the Tighten blog with "Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas" - We see AI everywhere these days, but the real burning question is can AI play Pictionary???? Nico asks and answers this question in this post - https://t.ly/MFevZ

🥇 Taylor Otwell - "2025 and beyond" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/lCvVe
🥈 Maxim Fomichev - "Simulating Сoncurrent Requests: How We Achieved High-Performance HTTP in PHP Without Threads" - https://t.ly/8PAqC
🥉 Nico Devs - "Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas" - https://t.ly/MFevZ
4️⃣ nuno maduro "Why PHP in 2026?" - https://t.ly/IIykV
5️⃣ Michael LaRoy - "Using the List Fieldtype in Statamic" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/fEdj8
6️⃣ Eric Barnes - "Laravel Deadlocks: Causes and Fixes" - https://t.ly/soXk7
7️⃣ Yunus Emre Deligöz - "The Flaky Test Chronicles I: The Reckoning" - https://t.ly/jsXH-
8️⃣ Ashley Allen - "Formatting PHP Code with PHP CS Fixer" - https://t.ly/hTN-U
9️⃣ Roberto Butti - "Why you should always check licenses in your PHP project" - https://t.ly/ej4hK
🔟 Harris Raftopoulos - "Speeding Up Dashboards - Laravel In Practice EP16" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/v-BMR

That's it for this week hopefully there is something there for everyone to enjoy reading. Don't forget to tag your posts with hashtag#PHP or
hashtag#Laravel for a chance to be in next weeks top ten.

Thanks for reading/watching this year and let me know in the comments what your favourite read is or what you might have found this week. I look forward to seeing you all next year.