Freek van der Herten
where else to find them
website:https://freek.dev
github:freekmurze
bluesky:freek.bsky.social
mastodon:@freekmurze@phpc.social
linkedin:freek-van-der-herten-3487a7181
speakerdeck:freekmurze
devto:freekmurze
what they talk about
all 10 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Laracon EU5 editions2016–2024
- PHP UK Conference2 editions2017–2024
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Marcel Pociotonce
who talks about the same things
- Taylor Otwell13 talks
- Marcel Pociot17 talks
- Roberto Gallea5 talks
- Luciano Mammino17 talks
- Rob Conery16 talks
- Lukas Ruebbelke7 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Proven Package Patterns | Laravel Live Denmark 2026 | 2026-08-20 |
Spatie is a 12‑person team with nearly 3 billion downloads across ~300 packages; a holidays package got ~100 PRs in its first week. The built example is… | ||
| Uncharted packages | laravelday 2025 | 2025-11-20 |
Spatie releases total downloads near two billion and surfaces ten small but concrete packages: a Horizon watch subcommand that detects file changes and… | ||
| Implementing multi-tenancy in a Laravel app | Forum PHP 2025 | 2025-10-09 |
Demo of the open-source Laravel multi-tenency package shows a working multi-database setup where a landlord DB maps domains to tenant DBs and the app swaps the… | ||
| Uncharted packages | Forum PHP 2025 | 2025-10-09 |
Company open source hits almost two billion downloads and maintains about 350 packages; eight small Laravel packages get demonstrated with concrete claims and… | ||
| Fantastic functions and where to find them | PHP UK Conference 2024 | 2024-02-15 |
Claims specific features and demos: a CLI renderer termwind uses HTML classes to style terminal output; concurrency via process control fork and a fork package… | ||
| Freek Van der Herten :: Uncharted Packages | Laracon EU 2024 | 2024-02-05 |
Three hundred packages power real apps and together hit about 900 million downloads with ~45 million a month and a billion imminent; ten concrete utilities are… | ||
| Implementing AI for fun and profit | PHP fwdays'23 conference | 2023-08-12 |
Company builds and OSS reach 607 million downloads and 30 million monthly pulls, and the concrete claims are: uses OpenAI API with git diff prompt to generate… | ||
| Enjoying Laravel Data | Laracon US 2023 | 2023-07-19 |
Spatie's Laravel-Data provides a single data-object definition that replaces duplicate attribute lists across form requests, API resources and front-end types… | ||
| Fantastic functions and where to find them | phpday 2022 | 2022-05-19 |
Shows concrete hacks and libraries: demonstrates invade using PHP reflection to read private properties and call private methods (works in demo), builds a Fork… | ||
| Fantastic functions and where to find them | Laracon EU 2022 | 2022-04-26 |
Shows concrete concurrency demos: uses pcntl_fork to run parent and child branches, socket_pair + read/write for IPC and waitpid polling to collect results… | ||
| Event Sourcing in Laravel | Laracon EU Online 2021 | 2021-01-18 |
A runnable demo shows an app called Larabank built with the laravel event sourcing package, storing every change in a stored events table and rebuilding views… | ||
| Behind the Scenes of Flare | Laracon AU 2019 | 2019-10-31 |
Flare is an open-source Laravel exception tracker maintained by Spatie; the talk explains its engineering choices for running in production at scale. It… | ||
| Our Secret Project | Laracon EU 2019 | 2019-08-28 |
A Laravel-specific error page called Ignition replaces Whoops, ships as the default in Laravel 6 and installs on 5.5+, shows original Blade views, route name… | ||
| Handling media in a Laravel application | Laracon EU 2018 | 2018-08-30 |
A Laravel package that actually attaches files to Eloquent models and generates usable assets on demand demonstrates concrete results and workflows: media… | ||
| Creating a realtime dashboard with PHP and websockets | Dutch PHP Conference 2017 | 2017-06-29 |
A single page fullscreen dashboard updates tiles without reloads using Laravel + Vue + Pusher; Laravel schedules jobs to fetch APIs, fires broadcast events… | ||
| Taking Care of Backups with Laravel | PHP UK Conference 2017 | 2017-02-16 |
A concrete backup workflow: a package called laravel backup dumped MySQL and zipped application files, copies archives to multiple disks (local and S3), and… | ||
| Taking care of backups with Laravel | Laracon EU 2016 | 2016-08-23 |
Package called laravel-backup claims easy backups for small teams and shows concrete tooling: 125,000 downloads, uses mysqldump + zip + S3 (any Flysystem… | ||
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