Quite a few people in my circle are either in development or looking to get into it as a career. The majority of them are learning JavaScript and the questions that I get asked most often relate to promises in some way.

Even though Laravel has a great toolset for making testing easier, there is still a ridiculous amount of people who choose to ignore tests.

Laravel Forge is a fantastic tool for rapidly spinning up servers with all the best and latest software. It also provides for easy PHP project deployment and setup. However, the default deploy script is rather lacking in a sense that it results in downtime.