Laracon AU 2023
2023-11-16..2023-11-17
Sydney, Australia
[Laracon AU 2018, Laracon AU 2019, Laracon AU 2023, Laracon AU 2024, Laracon AU 2025]
who it's for
Laravel developers, full-stack developers, backend PHP developers, engineering managers, DevOps and platform engineers, QA and test engineers, accessibility engineers
topics
Pest plugin architecture; Stressless stress testing with Octane; API docs generation with Scribe; Laravel Pulse self-hosted monitoring; Full-page Livewire components; Accessibility testing and tooling; Statamic flat-file CMS on Laravel; Eloquent model per-record encryption; Event-sourced verbs and projections; Continuous deploys and DORA metrics; Junior developer onboarding practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | Michael Dyrynda | 19m |
Experience the return of Laracon Australia 2023 in this video! Get insights on Laravel & PHP updates since the last Laracon AU, meet Sheldon the famous pupper… | ||
| What's new in Pest | Nuno Maduro | 32m |
Pest claims a simpler API, ships a plugin system and already reaches 10 million downloads while remaining compatible with PHPUnit; the demo shows the… | ||
| Documenting Laravel APIs | James Brooks | 30m |
Demo shows a Laravel project (a Chirper API) with live examples and concrete edits that produce usable docs: Scribe generates static HTML and an OpenAPI spec… | ||
| Introducing Laravel Pulse | Jess Archer | 33m |
A new Laravel performance monitor claims to be self hosted, installs with composer require, and records minimal aggregated telemetry (routes, queries, jobs… | ||
| Building a maintainable Livewire application | Josh Hanley | 21m |
Examples replace controllers and views with full-page Livewire components linked from routes, naming uses verbs and suffixes like EditQuotePage and… | ||
| Designing with friction, it's irritatingly good | Patima Tantiprasut | 31m |
Claims that deliberate obstacles improve outcomes backed by concrete patterns and results: multi‑step delete flows with type the repo path and SMS confirmation… | ||
| Accessibility on the backend | Samuel Levy | 33m |
Claim: backend code and processes block real users — developers, juniors, non‑English readers, and temporarily disabled folks — from doing work. Evidence… | ||
| Laravel Team Q&A | 47m | |
Join members of the Laravel core team for an insightful Q&A. Discover how Laracon has kick-started their careers and how their love for coding runs as deep as… | ||
| 7 habits of a high performing team | Greg Skerman | 33m |
Claims concrete habits: work in small steps — ~1–2 hour steps so a six‑person paired team can ship ~12 steps/day; deploy every change — one change equals one… | ||
| Put Verbs in your database | Daniel Coulbourne | 33m |
Builds a Laravel based event sourced web game and a reusable verbs package that stores actions as events instead of mutating status columns, then projects… | ||
| Writing native apps with... PHP? | Marcel Pociot | 30m |
Discover the magic of creating desktop apps with PHP. Join CTO of Beyond Code, Marcel Pociot, as he guides us through unique ways of utilising PHP, sharing… | ||
| Developerhood | Nina Karisik | 22m |
Join Nina, a passionate software engineer, as she shares how programming has brought drastic change to her life, from her roots in Bosnia to the tech world… | ||
| Cultivating success with Laravel | Richard Merryweather | 28m |
Figured rewrites its app on Laravel and ships a production release in six weeks with 100% feature parity, enabled by Laravel + Forge tooling, later moved to… | ||
| Statamic for Laravel devs | Marty Friedel | 36m |
A Livewire donut app gets a blog dropped in with Statamic running on Laravel, content stored as YAML/Markdown and deployable via Git; a blog collection and… | ||
| Building an accessibility testing habit | Larene Le Gassick | 35m |
Provides a concrete checklist and homepage-ready steps: install and memorize tools like axe DevTools, HeadingsMap, Color Oracle and a color contrast analyzer… | ||
| Data encryption made easy | Sam Sehnert | 29m |
Library called eloquent model encrypt is open sourced after five years in production and builds on Laravel's Crypt (AES‑128/256) to manage per‑record keys… | ||
| Th1nk lik3 a h4cker | Stephen Rees-Carter | 32m |
Get your hacker hat on with this engaging video as we dive into the ethics of hacking and necessary precautions in security with Stephen Rees-Carter. Not just… | ||
| Tapping into the power of junior developers | Rissa Jackson | 33m |
Claims: hire juniors for diversity and fresh ideas, set them up with an onboarding buddy, give ramp‑up work like update the README, and pair constantly via a… | ||
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