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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · 7d

Automated messages for user groups are now live on @eventy.io 📢

Eventy @eventy.io · 7d

📣 We've launched scheduled messages on the platform:

- Get informed when a new member joins your user group
- Send an automated welcome message to your new members
- Remind attendees about upcoming events
- Send an automated thank you message to attendees after an event.

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Eventy @eventy.io · 7d

With these, Eventy becomes even more powerful for user group leaders. Go give it a try!

👉 eventy.io

Eventy

Eventy - User group & event software that just works

eventy.io

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Eventy @eventy.io · 7d

You can customise the welcome and thank you message as an organiser.

All of these can be turned off as well, by you as a user, if you don't want to receive these. You're in control 💪

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Eventy @eventy.io · 7d

📣 We've launched scheduled messages on the platform:

- Get informed when a new member joins your user group
- Send an automated welcome message to your new members
- Remind attendees about upcoming events
- Send an automated thank you message to attendees after an event.

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NativePHP @nativephp.com · Oct 3

Did you know that we sponsor some of the open source projects we use and their maintainers at a rate of over $2,000 per month?

This includes @pestphp.bsky.social and @filamentphp.com

We love this community and we want to keep on supporting it ❤️

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Eventy @eventy.io · Oct 3

📝 Our October 2025 Update: managing your user group is now easier than ever with multiple user group leaders.

eventy.io/blog/eventy-...

Eventy October 2025 Update | Eventy

Eventy - User group & event software that just works

eventy.io

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Oct 2

Do it

a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open

ALT: a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Oct 2

They worked super hard on it for over a year and it shows 🙂

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DigitalOcean @digitalocean.com · Oct 1

Congratulations Laravel on launching Laravel VPS! 🍾

Developers globally use Laravel to power over 1M websites, & we're proud to partner with them to empower that community to continue to build & scale web apps in a simple way. ✨ https://do.co/4nBSs5k

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Oct 1

The Forge team has launched the next version of its platform and my, it's amazing 🤩

Laravel @laravel.com · Oct 1

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

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Laravel @laravel.com · Oct 1

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014.

◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers
◆ Zero downtime deployments
◆ Team terminal sessions
◆ Free on-forge domains
◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Sep 22

Multiple user group leaders just landed in @eventy.io!

eventy.io

Eventy @eventy.io · Sep 22

👥 You can now add multiple user group leaders to manage your user group, administrate users and change the user group owner through a new members dashboard. Just one of the many more things to come in the upcoming months ✨

eventy.io

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Eventy @eventy.io · Sep 22

👥 You can now add multiple user group leaders to manage your user group, administrate users and change the user group owner through a new members dashboard. Just one of the many more things to come in the upcoming months ✨

eventy.io

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Laravel @laravel.com · Sep 17

The Laravel Bootcamp is back!

Alongside it is a new PHP Fundamentals mini-course.

Both are free and perfect for anyone brand new to PHP or Laravel.

laravel.com/learn

Learn Laravel - Free Video Courses - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

laravel.com

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Freek Van der Herten @freek.bsky.social · Sep 16

At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it: ohdear.app/news-and-upd...

SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)

This post covers tips and tricks for performance tweaking your SQL queries by first identifying which queries need work.

ohdear.app

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Sep 17

📺 Here's a video by Povilas on schema dumps in @laravel.io 👍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGoT...

Laravel Schema Dump: Practical Demo from Laravel.io

YouTube video by Laravel Daily

www.youtube.com

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Joe Tannenbaum @joe.codes · Sep 16

Not a huge deal, but after a quarter million installations it feels good to finally be verified in the VS Code marketplace ✅

Screenshot of the Laravel extension VS Code Marketplace page with a red arrow pointing to the new "verified" badge next to the publisher

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Florian Beer @florian.beer · Sep 15

We crossed 1 million deployments on Laravel Cloud 🔥

blog.laravel.com/1m-deploys-o...

1M Deploys on Laravel Cloud: Billing, Admin & Integrations

Laravel Cloud hit 1M deployments since EA. Here’s how we built billing, admin tools, and integrations to support every deployment.

blog.laravel.com

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Christoph Rumpel @christophrumpel.bsky.social · Sep 11

Supercharge Your Laravel App with Enums! 🚀

In my latest video, I showcase how Laravel not only supports enums but embraces them. Together, they create a perfect developer experience for cleaner and more maintainable code.

Check it out ✌️

youtu.be/eeQVOXgQg88

Supercharge Your Laravel App with Enums

YouTube video by Laravel

youtu.be

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Laravel @laravel.com · Sep 10

What should you expect in the next gen of Forge? 👇

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Sep 8

🖼️ Upgrades to the home office to start the week ✌️

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NativePHP @nativephp.com · Sep 6

The Bifrost is opening on Tuesday! 🔥

nativephp.com/blog/bifrost...

NativePHP

Build native applications, with the tools you already know.

nativephp.com

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Dries Vints 👨‍🚀 @driesvints.com · Sep 2

Ok that’s the coolest one I’ve seen so far 😆

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Florian Beer @florian.beer · Aug 27

The new Laravel Forge will be a game changer:

⚡ Laravel VPS in seconds
🚀 Zero-downtime deployments
🌍 on-forge.com domains, no DNS hassle
📊 Healthchecks & heartbeats
💻 Integrated terminal & command palette
✨ All-new redesigned UI

👉 forge.laravel.com/waitlist

Laravel Forge Waitlist

Join our waitlist to be the first to know when we launch.

forge.laravel.com

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Laravel.io @laravel.io · Aug 27

Boosting Laravel Boost by Oussama Mater

https://laravel.io/articles/boosting-laravel-boost

Boosting Laravel Boost | Laravel.io

The Laravel portal for problem solving, knowledge sharing and community building.

laravel.io

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