Laracon AU

Laracon AU S05E20 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Check out mid-life composer 👉 youtu.be/hM1tD1zlMOU

@ryanlovett.au closes #LaraconAU with a raw and powerful talk on identity, burnout, and rebuilding after loss.

A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇

Learn how to defend the Hornburg 👉 youtu.be/Anj-qb4kqy4

What can Helm’s Deep teach us about application security?

@valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget.

Watch the full talk 👇

Find better problems 👉 youtu.be/kYAr8mSDmww

We're great at building solutions, but are we solving the right problems?

@jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇

Check out building good developers youtu.be/_QuNija4kA0

Kate Kirwin from She Codes Australia shows how mentoring others can level up your own skills through the protégé effect, improving fundamentals, communication, empathy, and confidence, even if you feel like an imposter.

See UI details that connect in full youtu.be/y12WbwrNwLA

@leaht.codes from Laravel shares a simple, repeatable approach to front-end development, showing how spacing, typography, layering, and interaction turn basic layouts into polished experiences, backed by live demos from real Laravel sites.

Check out No dev. No staging. No problem. in full youtu.be/hpUrWWlBKCY

Can you ship straight to production without staging?

James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.

Check out the full Forging Forge talk youtu.be/he2-4Dbc-y0

Hear from @jbrooks.uk how the Laravel team rebuilt Forge from the ground up to modernise its architecture and improve developer experience.

A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇

Learn more about auth factories in Laravel youtu.be/KroiagwnV0s

See how @mary.win unpacks how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers showcase real world factory and abstract factory patterns.

See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇

Laracon AU S05E08 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Check out full stack architecture youtu.be/seX4HqMIAMk

Watch as @jominney.bsky.social cuts through the confusion around software architecture and shows how small Laravel teams can make pragmatic, context driven decisions.

A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇

Check out React, the Laravel way youtu.be/vZC-rVjuiLA

React fatigue is real.

@simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with.

For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇

Catch the full talk youtu.be/y7yV-f8jDFQ

Semantic HTML is not optional.

@charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS.

A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇

See the full talk youtu.be/MUlln-pnk3U

What does resilient Laravel code really look like when things go wrong in production?

@zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇

Laracon AU S05E06 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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@nirys.bsky.social's talk is a practical guide to writing tests that developers will actually run.

From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types.

Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇

Laracon AU S05E05 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Delivering a rapid tour of everything new in the ecosystem, @jessarcher.bsky.social shares a packed update on Laravel’s growth and the developer experience improvements shipping across the framework.

Check out the full talk 👇

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How do you turn a decade old multi tenant PHP beast into a modern Laravel app without a big bang rewrite?

In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins.

See the full talk 👇