Busy week! 

This week was pretty busy in Laravel land.  First, was the Laravel 9 release on Tuesday, and on Wednesday was Laracon Online. 

This was the first free Laracon Online and because it was streamed directly to Youtube you can watch the videos any time you want. Here is the link to them: 

Over the next week or so we will be creating closed captioning and will have that included in the stream. As of right now, the stream has almost 50,000 views and this going to be by far the most seen Laracon ever. 

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Using S3 with Laravel

Using AWS S3 with Laravel now (even in single-server setups) can reduce headaches in the long run. Here's what you should know!

Manage Git Branches with git-trim

Have you ever needed to clean up stale or old local branches that have already been merged and deleted on GitHub? Check out git-trim.

Laravel Google Chat Alerts

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Calculating Mathematical Statistics

Hi-Folks/statistics is a PHP package that provides functions for calculating mathematical statistics of numeric data.

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Laravel State Machine
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