Sade anyone?

@sketchni lol

After watching this video I'm having doubts about my future once again. It's a recurring pattern and it triggers me multiple times a week. Am I on the right path anymore?

I started IT studies in 2023 and the first 1.5 years I worked part-time in IT support and focused on cloud/networking but it's not what I wanted. I wanted to be a dev, I just did it to get some experience.

For the last 6-8 months I've been really getting into coding, first I learned HTML, CSS and Vanilla JS, then I got in to some Java, after that I did Python for about two months and around September 2025 I started with PHP and Laravel and it's what I've enjoyed the most so far.

I'm really insecure because in half a year I'm gonna graduate and I don't know if this is all worth it anymore. It feels as if this web dev world is now only reserved for those who have had job experience pre-covid and that somehow it's not possible anymore to get your foot into the door at this point. It feels as if everything is over.

I really don't know what I should do. There's very little dev jobs let alone junior dev job listings here.

I really, really want it, but I don't think wanting something is even enough anymore.

Of coure no one will be able to give me an answer.

@MrMoto9000 Alarming.

@BrianWDouglas Thanks for sharing your personal story. Shocking, really. I would've done the same thing. Their moral compass is f*****. It's sad to see that the world is getting more and more robotic and cold with AI.

Is there a way to further talk a bit with you?

@connor1231 I'm not using Herd, but I think doing composer run dev to start my app caused this. Goal will be to use Docker or Mise, but not there yet.

When I do npm run dev and php artisan serve manually the job isn't dispatched immediately :D

Thanks for the hint!

How are you doing things?

I have imlemented the ShouldQueue for my TodoCreated notification, but my notifications are actually sent out without me having to run queue:work. What is going on?

I can see a job in the database table for a brief moment but it goes away by itself.

Yes, my QUEUE_CONNECTION is set to database.

Learn more about being a good artisan.

@codeplumber No, I think he mentioned this in the Learn Laravel in 30 Days series

Do we need the additional auth()->check() authorize method if we already have the store endpoint wrapped inside the auth middleware group?

After building a clean Todo App with Meraki UI I'm gonna give DaisyUI a shot for my next project - a project showcase dashboard for admins and students with registration and approval processes. Happy Coding!

The subtitles say "a little more policing to the eye" instead of "pleasing" 😅

    $todos = $request->user()->todos()
      ->with('status')
      ->select(['id', 'title', 'description', 'status_id']);

    if ($request->status) {
      $statusId = Status::getIdFromName($request->status);
      $todos->where('status_id', $statusId);
    }

    $todos = $todos->simplePaginate(9)->withQueryString();

Laravel is so gorgeous. I load all todos for the user who is making the request and then I filter depending on whether or not the query string has been set.

    $todos = $request->user()->todos()
      ->with('status')
      ->select(['id', 'title', 'description', 'status_id']);

    if ($request->status) {
      $statusId = Status::getIdFromName($request->status);
      $todos->where('status_id', $statusId);
    }

    $todos = $todos->simplePaginate(9)->withQueryString();

Laravel is so gorgeous. I load all todos for the user who is making the request and then I filter depending on whether or not the query string has been set.

@yacine_df Yeah, but we want Docker

Where can I get the dd shirt?

After watching this video I'm having doubts about my future once again. It's a recurring pattern and it triggers me multiple times a week. Am I on the right path anymore?

I started IT studies in 2023 and the first 1.5 years I worked part-time in IT support and focused on cloud/networking but it's not what I wanted. I wanted to be a dev, I just did it to get some experience.

For the last 6-8 months I've been really getting into coding, first I learned HTML, CSS and Vanilla JS, then I got in to some Java, after that I did Python for about two months and around September 2025 I started with PHP and Laravel and it's what I've enjoyed the most so far.

I'm really insecure because in half a year I'm gonna graduate and I don't know if this is all worth it anymore. It feels as if this web dev world is now only reserved for those who have had job experience pre-covid and that somehow it's not possible anymore to get your foot into the door at this point. It feels as if everything is over.

I really don't know what I should do. There's very little dev jobs let alone junior dev job listings here.

I really, really want it, but I don't think wanting something is even enough anymore.

Of coure no one will be able to give me an answer.

@jlrdw Read through your entire comment and couldn't agree more. We should regulate this stuff. I'm almost certain that some bad things are going to happen in the future because people trusted the AI and shipped insecure software. And then they use AI to auto-test the software that AI coded...

@lucassemelin 100% agree, I also think understanding how an application flows is important, otherwise you would just trust a black box. I don't think this would end well?

Despite the hype around AI coding tools, which are indeed very helpful, we still need a solid understanding of fundamentals such as relationships, queues and jobs, DDD, TDD, REST APIs, models, broadcasting, and more. We are in charge of AI, not the other way around. That’s why we still need to learn and truly understand programming concepts, languages, and paradigms, and in this particular case, the Laravel ecosystem. For this reason, platforms like Laracasts remain extremely valuable.

Yes, very wild ^^

First <3

@Jeffrey Way can you release a series on how to deploy a Laravel app with Docker in 2026 (maybe FrankenPHP)?

@koulritesh98 I haven't search yet, but I think this is really an area that they could add more content. For example, how to dockerize a modern Laravel application and deploy it to Azure Container Instances.

First <3

@Jeffrey Way can you release a series on how to deploy a Laravel app with Docker in 2026 (maybe FrankenPHP)?

@Naodalemu because breeze is no longer officially a starter kit option. You could manually install it after creating an empty Laravel project with composer. However, dependencies like Tailwind CSS likely would need to be manually upgraded, because latest version of Breeze uses Tailwind v3 not v4.

@codeplumber But unfortunately this will also include an old Tailwind version with a tailwind.config.js which is deprecated... I think the closest we get these days is to use Livewire with Auth

@Shruti Balasa which browser do you use?

Currently developing a student project showcase app with the VILT stack, but let me try out Alpine and Livewire with you ^^