Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform and making you a DevOps hero.

(01:56) - Define casts in a query
(03:55) - Lemon Squeezy for Laravel 1.0 is here
(06:38) - Add strict typing to inline variables in PHP with Strictus
(09:24) - Hooks for Alpine.js
(10:37) - PunchcardP Object configs for Laravel
(14:15) - Sponsor: Honeybadger
(15:11) - Resend email package for Laravel and PHP
(16:34) - Restore database backups in Laravel
(18:01) - Laravel Tailwind Merge
(24:15) - Bellows: Supercharge your Laravel Forge account
(28:35) - Lifecycle hooks in Laravel - How to build them, and why you'd want them
(32:49) - Working with third party services in Laravel

Squeezing lemons, punching cards, and bellowing forges