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Tighten @tighten.com · Sep 8

If you want AI agents to be able to interact with your Laravel app, but you're not sure where to start, check out @mateusjunges.com’ post around the magic and efficiency of adding an MCP to your Laravel app today. 👇

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Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP

Do you remember your first interaction with a computer? Perhaps it was through a command-line interface, where typing commands allowed the machine to perform the desired actions. A few years later, gr...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Jul 28

Submissions are open only to in-person attendees of Laracon, and all submissions are due by Tuesday night, 11:59 MDT.

Voting opens to *everyone* noon MDT on Tuesday, and closes 4pm MDT on Wednesday.

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Tighten @tighten.com · Jul 28

🎮 Get your game on, Laracon US attendees!

Play the @tighten.com Laracon 2025 Game Jam
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Vibe code your way to the high score, and 🏆 win a Nintendo Switch 2! 🏆

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Tighten @tighten.com · Jul 10

Today on the blog, @tonysm.com continues the Rich Text Laravel series and demonstrates how flexible Content Attachments are! We can embed pretty much anything to our rich text documents!

Click the link below:👇
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Introducing Rich Text Laravel - Part 2: User Mentions With Content Attachments

In our previous Rich Text post, we implemented file attachments using the Rich Text Laravel package, but we've only touched...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Mar 13

There's not just one way to seed your Laravel apps.

Check out our latest article to learn:

✅ How to import thousands of records from CSV
✅ How to use AI to seed realistic data
✅ How to create interactive seeders

...and more!

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10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database

Seeders allow us to quickly fill our database with records to test our application. Let's say that you need a couple of users to test your authentication system—you could create them manually using yo...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Feb 12

In today's article, discover 5 tips to build better full-text searches:

✅ Sort records
✅ Use filters effectively
✅ Tweak typo tolerance
✅ Access the raw Typesense response
✅ Use facets for better filtering

Click the link below 👇

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Five Practical Tips to Improve Search in Laravel Apps With Typesense

Typesense is making waves in the search landscape. Since its inclusion as an officially supported driver for Laravel Scout,...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Jan 27

Tired of fighting your WYSIWYG editor?

Today on the blog, @tonysm.com shows you how to integrate the Trix editor into your new and existing Laravel applications.

Learn about the basics, how to customize it, how to migrate, and how to attach files.

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Introducing Rich Text Laravel: A package to integrate Trix into Laravel applications

When we build forms for an application, it's common to need a field where a plain textarea isn't enough. So how do we proceed? We could process it on the backend and treat the input as Markdown, but t...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Jan 8

🚀 Filament helps you create a customizable admin panel in minutes.

Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to learn how to:

✨ Install Filament in Laravel
⚡ Generate admin panels from Models
💅 Use rich text editors, tag inputs, & uploaders
🔍 Add filters & actions

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Filament Crash-Course: Create a Customizable Admin Panel in Minutes

In most applications, administrators need a way to manage data. Whether it's a blog's articles and comments, a store's products and orders, or a theater's events and tickets, admins need a place to li...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Dec 16

For a few years, Takeout has been the best way to spin up local development services--MySQL, ClickHouse, Minio, and more--for PHP developers.

With today's release, you no longer need PHP to use Takeout!

Take a look at the our writeup to learn more:

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New: Install Takeout with Docker

Takeout is a convenient layer on top of Docker that lets you quickly spin up services without looking up the images and how to run them. Need a Redis service locally?...

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Tighten @tighten.com · Dec 5

Ready to level up your content game? 🚀

Discover the magic of Twill, the open-source Laravel CMS behind top brands like OpenAI, The New York Times, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our latest article explores how easy and fun managing your site’s content can be!

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Getting Started with Twill, an Open Source Laravel-Based CMS

Learn how companies like OpenAI, The New York Times, Pentagram, and the Art Institute of Chicago manage their brand identity when publishing content online.

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Matt Stauffer @mattstauffer.com · Nov 21

For those who didn't catch it live, my talk, "What to do after `laravel new`" from @LaraconAU, is now live on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4Q...

In it, I walk through the steps you should take on every Laravel app; as the king of "it depends", it takes a lot for me to say that!

Matt Stauffer - What to do after `laravel new` - Laracon AU 2024

YouTube video by Laracon AU

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Tighten @tighten.com · Nov 26

Hey friends! We're happy to be here (a little late, but that way we missed weird early-days stuff like Sexy Alf, phew)! 👋

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · Nov 22

New @tighten.com ad?

Billboard depicting Justin with a blower dryer, wearing a luxurious Tigten t-shirt, with the slogan: "Tighten: We Build Software"

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