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One question at a conference became a $50K a month one-person business
A profile of Jason McCreary and how Laravel Shift grew into a solo business earning around $50K in monthly recurring revenue. The key lesson is how careful, gradual price increases helped turn a side project into a real company.
Laravel · 7h ago · 1 min readPHPThe PHP Podcast 2026.11.12
The hosts discuss a surprise PHP 8.6.0 release candidate, an ABI break found by reading assembly, Claude appearing as a php-src contributor, and why teams resist upgrading PHP.
PHP · 19h ago · 8 min readJavaScriptGiving AI Agents a Better Way to Debug CSS
A walkthrough of connecting Chrome DevTools MCP to Codex so an AI agent can inspect the CSS rules actually applied in the browser and explain why a declaration is being overridden.
JavaScript · 20h ago · 5 min readLaravelLaravel AI SDK 1.4 Lets Agents Recover From Tool Failures
Version 1.4 of the Laravel AI SDK returns tool errors to the model so agents can keep running, and adds support for resuming tool approvals in agent test fakes.
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