At the end of 2020 my trusty mid-2014 MacBook Pro died and was replaced with the latest generation MacBook Pro, running an Apple Silicon M1 Pro processor. The change in architecture away from Intel to Apples own ARM based CPU meant that some software would no longer run on my

Released on 13 October 2020, Laravel 8.10 came with the addition of the new upsert() method on the database query builder (and therefore Eloquent based queries too). This allows you to perform "insert or update" queries far more efficiently - which will help when importing large batches of data.

As I'm sure you heard if you follow along with the Laravel community, the latest Laracon event was held on Wednesday, which was hosted online instead of the usual summer conference in the US. There were 15 fantastic speakers, but there was one that everybody was waiting for. Taylor Otwell