Aug 18, 2026 · 46 min · 12 segments
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Taylor OtwellGuest
Matt StaufferHost
And honestly, I know that I mentioned before we started recording that some people who listen to the podcast are up on everything.

Some people who listen to the podcast don't watch any of the videos of the conferences.

So all of y'all should go watch plenty of the talks, but especially Taylor's, because there's a lot of really great announcements related to the world and the ecosystem.

But there are some kind of announcements that you made I want us to talk about a little bit.

So Laravel itself, There's a couple of things that I feel like were just super useful for those of us who use the framework.

I'm just like, I know it's so small, but it's like my favorite thing ever because the number of times I built stupid little systems for passing in metadata, passing in the title, the page title.

yeah i think i even sat on stage and not to put down ben's work on the open source team on this but like when i first heard about the idea i was like

man we're really running out of ideas we're kind of like scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas here but once i saw it i was like wow this is actually a really great idea and i'm surprised we haven't done this sooner yeah yeah

Now, and it's fun because like there have been so many times where we're like, is there anything more to build? Right.

Is there anything more to add? Are we feature complete? And the answer keeps being like, nope.

And, you know, one of the things you often have said on the podcast is having Excel's investment, growing the team bigger has allowed you to do things that you couldn't before.

And we're often thinking about cloud, but I'm looking at even things like the LSP.

And honestly, I know that I mentioned before we started recording that some people who listen to the podcast are up on everything.

Some people who listen to the podcast don't watch any of the videos of the conferences.

So all of y'all should go watch plenty of the talks, but especially Taylor's, because there's a lot of really great announcements related to the world and the ecosystem.

But there are some kind of announcements that you made I want us to talk about a little bit.

So Laravel itself, There's a couple of things that I feel like were just super useful for those of us who use the framework.

I'm just like, I know it's so small, but it's like my favorite thing ever because the number of times I built stupid little systems for passing in metadata, passing in the title, the page title.

yeah i think i even sat on stage and not to put down ben's work on the open source team on this but like when i first heard about the idea i was like

man we're really running out of ideas we're kind of like scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas here but once i saw it i was like wow this is actually a really great idea and i'm surprised we haven't done this sooner yeah yeah

Now, and it's fun because like there have been so many times where we're like, is there anything more to build? Right.

Is there anything more to add? Are we feature complete? And the answer keeps being like, nope.

And, you know, one of the things you often have said on the podcast is having Excel's investment, growing the team bigger has allowed you to do things that you couldn't before.

And we're often thinking about cloud, but I'm looking at even things like the LSP.
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