Week ending January 9, 2026
This week has been a week that seems to have been consumed with AI, but I've managed to find 10 great post so give them a read.
by Daniel Newns
In 🥇 place this week, it's a post by myself, now I know you're thinking come on Dan don't be like that, but I had an itch that I had to scratch earlier in the week and played around with a small experiment and it worked - "Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications." I'd love to know what you all think about this one
by Yunus Emre Deligöz
In 🥈 place this week its Yunus Emre Deligöz with another three articles from his "Flaky test chronicles", I featured the first one in a previous top ten well it looks like he's been busy writing more articles for the series, I've linked to the first one here but you can find the rest on the blog
by Mattias Geniar
In 🥉 place this week we have Mattias Geniar with "Web Development is fun again" In this post Mattias talks about how he's started to enjoy developing again thanks to using AI tools, the world of development moves so fast and keeping up with this ever evolving world is so difficult. as he mentions its making it harder and harder to have a deeper domain knowledge of all these new things especially if you were a solo dev
by Mischa Sigtermans
Im sure you’d all love to have Taylor Otwell help you write better code. Well Mischa has built a claude code agent that channels Taylor’s Laravel philosophy. If you use claude code go install this and run it against your code and see what it says I’m pretty positive it will be worth it.
by Ben Bjustrom
by Ludovic Guénet
by Roberto B
by Mischa Sigtermans
by Povilas Korop