Laracon AU

@ryanlovett.au closes #LaraconAU with a raw and powerful talk on identity, burnout, and rebuilding after loss. A reminder that struggling with change is normal, and asking for help matters. Watch the full talk here 👇

What can Helm’s Deep teach us about application security? @valorin.bsky.social talk uses Lord of the Rings to explain defence in depth, backups, MFA, and monitoring in a way you will not forget. Watch the full talk 👇

We're great at building solutions, but are we solving the right problems? @jrmybtlr.com shares practical systems thinking tools to help teams escape the build trap and make better decisions. Watch the full talk 👇

Kate Kirwin from She Codes Australia shows how mentoring others can level up your own skills through the protégé effect, improving fundamentals, communication, empathy, and confidence, even if you feel like an imposter.

@leaht.codes from Laravel shares a simple, repeatable approach to front-end development, showing how spacing, typography, layering, and interaction turn basic layouts into polished experiences, backed by live demos from real Laravel sites.

Can you ship straight to production without staging? James Mooring explains how Astalty does trunk-based dev, deploys on every merged PR, and relies on stable code, simple infra, empowered engineers, and lots of feature flags, including a live prod merge demo.

Hear from @jbrooks.uk how the Laravel team rebuilt Forge from the ground up to modernise its architecture and improve developer experience. A great behind the scenes look at large scale Laravel engineering. 🎥👇

See how @mary.win unpacks how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers showcase real world factory and abstract factory patterns. See how design patterns are implemented by reading framework source code. 🎥👇

Watch as @jominney.bsky.social cuts through the confusion around software architecture and shows how small Laravel teams can make pragmatic, context driven decisions. A practical guide to thinking across the whole stack without over engineering. 🎥👇

React fatigue is real. @simonswiss.com shares how Laravel and Inertia finally gave him a full stack React workflow he could actually ship with. For frontend devs wanting stability without losing React’s ergonomics. 🎥👇

Semantic HTML is not optional. @charlieyalf.bsky.social shows how screen readers, voice control and browsers rely entirely on your markup, not your CSS. A powerful walkthrough of how small HTML decisions make or break accessibility in Laravel apps. 🎥👇

What does resilient Laravel code really look like when things go wrong in production? @zuzana-k.com covers validation, error handling, graceful degradation and more so your app keeps working under stress. 🎥👇

@nirys.bsky.social's talk is a practical guide to writing tests that developers will actually run. From speeding up suites, to prioritising meaningful coverage, and understanding different test types. Watch the full talk if you want more confidence in your Laravel code 👇

Delivering a rapid tour of everything new in the ecosystem, @jessarcher.bsky.social shares a packed update on Laravel’s growth and the developer experience improvements shipping across the framework. Check out the full talk 👇

How do you turn a decade old multi tenant PHP beast into a modern Laravel app without a big bang rewrite? In this talk, Jordan Havard shows how his team wrapped legacy in Laravel, used tests as a safety net and won leadership buy in with real performance wins. See the full talk 👇

Watch as @mishmanners.tech breaks down how to ensure quality testing in an AI driven world, from the testing pyramid to practical AI assisted coding workflows. A grounded look at hype vs reality and how developers can use AI without losing critical thinking. Watch the talk here 👇

See how Jason McCreary's Blueprint turns a small YAML file into full Laravel scaffolding - migrations, models, controllers, views + tests. This gives you 100%-covered, conventional code fast, and pairing nicely with AI/Boost for the complex bits. Watch the full Laracon AU talk 👇

The Road to Laracon is back for season three. This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).

Episode 1 is out now with Laravel's @jrmybtlr.com share.transistor.fm/s/03870638

The Road to Laracon is back for season three. This season, in line with our 90s theme, all of our speakers will give us a taste of sweet nostalgia, with all of their selected songs coming from the best decade of music (if we say so ourselves).

Our last speaker has been practicing their Australianisms to introduce themselves. Join Jason McCreary at this year's #LaraconAU where he'll share how you can ship your apps faster than a roo across the outback with Blueprint

Having joined not only @laravel.com the company, but the #Laravel community itself just over 12 months ago, @leaht.codes will be sharing how to build UIs that your users can connect with!

Returning for his second #LaraconAU, @ryanlovett.au will close out this year's conference reflecting on his life decisions and how they've defined him. You won't want to miss this one!

Design Engineer at @laravel.com, @jrmybtlr.com is shaping the experience behind the tools you use daily. 📛 Want your personalised badge? You’ve got until Oct 16 - plus <100 early birds left!