Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community. This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger - combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform and making you a DevOps hero. (01:56) - Define casts in a query (03:55) - Lemon Squeezy for Laravel 1.0 is here (06:38) - Add strict typing to inline variables in PHP with Strictus (09:24) - Hooks for Alpine.js (10:37) - PunchcardP Object configs for Laravel (14:15) - Sponsor: Honeybadger (15:11) - Resend email package for Laravel and PHP (16:34) - Restore database backups in Laravel (18:01) - Laravel Tailwind Merge (24:15) - Bellows: Supercharge your Laravel Forge account (28:35) - Lifecycle hooks in Laravel - How to build them, and why you'd want them (32:49) - Working with third party services in Laravel