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Matt Stauffer
Personal blog · mattstauffer.co/blogprogrammingweb
Matt Stauffer's personal blog at mattstauffer.co covers programming and web. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matt Stauffer's Laravel posts, including an upgrading-from-Laravel-4-to-5 guide, a post on provisioning servers with Forge, and an introduction to Laravel Spark. Commenters mostly share them as resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Matt Stauffer is co-founder and CEO at Tighten. He's also a published author, public speaker, podcaster, and YouTuber.
What Hacker News says?
I don't know the reasoning behind the decision to not use Whoops by default, but I considered the beautiful and informative error pages to be a nice trait of Laravel that I will miss. It is also a feature that almost anyone who has used Laravel has come in contact with, so I am sure that it will be widely missed. I remember a non-developer coworker who was using Laravel 4.x for the first time commenting on how it wa…
Comment linking /blog/bringing-whoops-back-to-laravel-5
on “Laravel 5 released”Submitted Sublime Text (3) for PHP Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor those currently using Laravel, here are some upgrade guides due to the large changes from 4 -> 5 http://laravel.com/docs/master/upgrade http://mattstauffer.co/blog/upgrading-from-laravel-4-to-lara...
Comment linking /blog/upgrading-from-laravel-4-to-laravel-5
on “Laravel 5 released”Submitted Environment specific variables in Laravel's testing environment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis preview was published after the announcement: http://mattstauffer.co/blog/getting-your-first-site-up-and-r... Forge is essentially a platform that makes it very easy to provision a Laravel-ready server (though it states it works with other frameworks too). It's a replication of Laravel Homestead ( http://laravel.com/docs/homestead ) on a server, so you can have the same development and production environments.
Comment linking /blog/getting-your-first-site-up-and-running-in-laravel-forge
on “Laravel Forge – PHP Platforms On Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS, Rackspace”Submitted Learn to throttle logins with Laravel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf your brave then try Laravel Spark https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-dee... https://github.com/laravel/spark
Comment linking /blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-deep-dive
on “Ask HN: Host for SaaS app that handles subscription, payments”Submitted Sublime Text (3) for PHP Developers as a story · 1 points
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