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23 queue safety findings verified against Laravel 13.4.0 with links to real GitHub issues spanning 2015 to 2026. Set $tries on every queue job. Don't rely on platform defaults.

Laravel's maxExceptions feature doesn't work when the failure mode is OOM. The exception counter lives in the catch block, which never executes during a fatal error. End-to-end proof on Laravel 13.4.0.

I rebuilt my personal site from Statamic SSG to Astro 6 with React islands. Here's what changed, what I added, and why static pages should ship zero JavaScript.

A blameless post-mortem on a reverted Laravel framework PR. What happened, what we learned, and the path forward.

Another round of contributions: 14 PRs merged across 5 Laravel repos, with a deep dive into serializable-closure bug fixes.

I benchmarked my Ryzen 9950X3D against my M1 MacBook for real Laravel + Claude Code work. The results were not what I expected.

A reflection on contributing 20 merged pull requests across 12 Laravel repositories in under two weeks.

I was unblocked from the Laravel GitHub org yesterday. Here's the full list of 91 PRs across 27 repos, confidence percentages, and what still needs review.