Fluent helpers, event sourcing, and bartending

Jeffrey Way, a Laravel luminary known for his programming tutorials, joins the discussion about Laravel's latest features. They dive into the new fluent helpers in Laravel 11.2 for managing multi-dimensional arrays and improved database queries. Jeffrey shares insights on event sourcing with the Verbs package, and highlights his 2024 PhpStorm setup. The conversation also touches on optimizing PDFs and the Bartender package for user authentication using Laravel Socialite, offering listeners practical tools for enhancing their development process.