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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀
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💰 Billing engineer at @laravel.com
💻 Building @eventy.io & @laravel.io
⭐️ @github.com Star & 💸 Stripe Community Expert
🔗 https://pinkary.com/@driesvints
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🌟 I'm super excited to announce the launch of our user groups module on @eventy.io. Over the past year, @rias.be and I worked hard on building this and we're happy to now be able to share that with all of you 🚀

Start your user group for free: eventy.io/user-groups
User Groups | Eventy
Look for a user group to join.
eventy.io
🤝 Happy to announce that we've acquired Symposium by Tighten. We welcome all Symposium speakers to the Eventy family. We'll be sharing more details about this soon 💪
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Automated messages for user groups are now live on @eventy.io 📢
📣 We've launched scheduled messages on the platform:

- Get informed when a new member joins your user group
- Send an automated welcome message to your new members
- Remind attendees about upcoming events
- Send an automated thank you message to attendees after an event.
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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With these, Eventy becomes even more powerful for user group leaders. Go give it a try!

👉 eventy.io
Eventy
Eventy - User group & event software that just works
eventy.io
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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You can customise the welcome and thank you message as an organiser.

All of these can be turned off as well, by you as a user, if you don't want to receive these. You're in control 💪
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📣 We've launched scheduled messages on the platform:

- Get informed when a new member joins your user group
- Send an automated welcome message to your new members
- Remind attendees about upcoming events
- Send an automated thank you message to attendees after an event.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Did you know that we sponsor some of the open source projects we use and their maintainers at a rate of over $2,000 per month?

This includes @pestphp.bsky.social and @filamentphp.com

We love this community and we want to keep on supporting it ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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📝 Our October 2025 Update: managing your user group is now easier than ever with multiple user group leaders.

eventy.io/blog/eventy-...
Eventy October 2025 Update | Eventy
Eventy - User group & event software that just works
eventy.io
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Congratulations Laravel on launching Laravel VPS! 🍾

Developers globally use Laravel to power over 1M websites, & we're proud to partner with them to empower that community to continue to build & scale web apps in a simple way. ✨ https://do.co/4nBSs5k
October 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Forge team has launched the next version of its platform and my, it's amazing 🤩
This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics
October 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Multiple user group leaders just landed in @eventy.io!

eventy.io
eventy.io Eventy @eventy.io · Sep 22
👥 You can now add multiple user group leaders to manage your user group, administrate users and change the user group owner through a new members dashboard. Just one of the many more things to come in the upcoming months ✨

eventy.io
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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👥 You can now add multiple user group leaders to manage your user group, administrate users and change the user group owner through a new members dashboard. Just one of the many more things to come in the upcoming months ✨

eventy.io
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The Laravel Bootcamp is back!

Alongside it is a new PHP Fundamentals mini-course.

Both are free and perfect for anyone brand new to PHP or Laravel.

laravel.com/learn
Learn Laravel - Free Video Courses - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
laravel.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it: ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)
This post covers tips and tricks for performance tweaking your SQL queries by first identifying which queries need work.
ohdear.app
September 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
📺 Here's a video by Povilas on schema dumps in @laravel.io 👍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGoT...
Laravel Schema Dump: Practical Demo from Laravel.io
YouTube video by Laravel Daily
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Not a huge deal, but after a quarter million installations it feels good to finally be verified in the VS Code marketplace ✅
September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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We crossed 1 million deployments on Laravel Cloud 🔥

blog.laravel.com/1m-deploys-o...
1M Deploys on Laravel Cloud: Billing, Admin & Integrations
Laravel Cloud hit 1M deployments since EA. Here’s how we built billing, admin tools, and integrations to support every deployment.
blog.laravel.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Supercharge Your Laravel App with Enums! 🚀

In my latest video, I showcase how Laravel not only supports enums but embraces them. Together, they create a perfect developer experience for cleaner and more maintainable code.

Check it out ✌️

youtu.be/eeQVOXgQg88
Supercharge Your Laravel App with Enums
YouTube video by Laravel
youtu.be
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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What should you expect in the next gen of Forge? 👇
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🖼️ Upgrades to the home office to start the week ✌️
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The Bifrost is opening on Tuesday! 🔥

nativephp.com/blog/bifrost...
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
nativephp.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The new Laravel Forge will be a game changer:

⚡ Laravel VPS in seconds
🚀 Zero-downtime deployments
🌍 on-forge.com domains, no DNS hassle
📊 Healthchecks & heartbeats
💻 Integrated terminal & command palette
✨ All-new redesigned UI

👉 forge.laravel.com/waitlist
Laravel Forge Waitlist
Join our waitlist to be the first to know when we launch.
forge.laravel.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Boosting Laravel Boost by Oussama Mater

https://laravel.io/articles/boosting-laravel-boost
Boosting Laravel Boost | Laravel.io
The Laravel portal for problem solving, knowledge sharing and community building.
laravel.io
August 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You all should give @kilopx.com by @benholmen.com a follow. Very creative project and super fun to watch.
August 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Half an hour before the keynote now 🤓🤯🚀
July 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM