Cam Kemshal-Bell
@CamKemDev
Full stack software engineer. Open source contributor. Focused on Laravel ecosystem. Enjoy working on my house, app design, cuisine, gardening & nature. #Build
Any recommendations on models, apps or specific workflows that work well at documenting product development? Also at creating customer knowledge base.
This is really cool. The development & expansion of the offerings is of the reasons I’m happy to support Adam and the team with a sponsorship.
✨ We just shipped vanilla JS support for Tailwind Plus! Every single UI block is now fully functional, interactive, and accessible, even if you're just grabbing the plain HTML examples.
What’s something stoopid you do repeatedly even though you’ve been writing code for many years? For me writing code the method instead of function… even though it’s never been a reserved keyword in programming.
I have worked with Punyapal & can confirm he’s an excellent developer.
Hey Laravel fam, I'm open to new freelance work and have room for new clients on Laravel, TALL stack, Filament, or related tech projects. Reach out to discuss how I can help with your next project! I'm also interested in a DevRel role.
PHP has variable variables... Do you know what's going on here? Would you use them?

Oh daaaaaaaaaaamn
📣 This JUST got merged in #PHP a few minutes ago! It is currently challenging to deal with recursion in anonymous functions. Not anymore in PHP 8.5: the "Closure::getCurrent()" method fetches the current closure you're in 🚀 PR: github.com/php/php-src/pu… #phptips
It’s that time of the year again… Survey time!
The State Of Laravel 2025 survey has started! You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months! Please RT for reach ❤️ stateoflaravel.com/participate?re…
If you’re going to have porridge for breakfast, you may as well make it fancy.



Does anyone in the @laravelphp community have any recommendation for automated code vulnerability scanning tool? We have tried @github Code Security & Amazon Inspector - both are terrible at scanning PHP (in particular Laravel projects).
php 8.5 surprised me – the pipe operator is cool, but there’s also closures in constant expressions, the nodiscard attribute, –ini=diff, and more. php internals are cooking, and the php foundation is doing some solid work. full breakdown here: youtu.be/M1ksgzGbS60?si…
🧪 CLI Markdown Reader? That works over SSH also? Built in PHP with @laravelphp Prompts? 🤯 Yes please! 🤩
Nice; would love to see a video on how to use the MCP server with Junie!
After months of hard work, I'm super happy to announce the release of Tinkerwell v5! This major update adds an MCP server, inline AI code completion, AI chat, a refreshed UI and much more! tinkerwell.app
Good to see Adam creating a reoccurring revenue stream model for tailwind! No questions needed for a subscription to this one.
Finally launched a sponsorship program for Tailwind CSS, with a bunch of cool perks ✨ 💬 Private Discord community to connect with the team 🤖 Cursor/Claude rules for generating better Tailwind output 🎨 Beautiful custom VS Code themes 🔍 Raycast extension with lots of little…
The Nightwatch agent has been updated to support our new "Sample" middleware, allowing you fine-grained route level control on sampling. 🕵️ nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/agent/sam…
I've decided that instead of learning from my mistakes I'm just gonna stop making mistakes. Why isn't everyone doing this
breaking php news: @danjharrin is coming on my channel live next friday to talk about filament 4. schedule: - june 13: @danjharrin (friday) - june 16: @jeffrey_way (monday) subscribe so you don’t miss it: youtube.com/@nunomaduro 🔥
Dear Laravel friends, we got something special for you: @any_cable for Laravel. Reliable, performant, developer-friendly, open-source (MIT-licensed) Pusher replacement and Reverb power-up. open.substack.com/pub/anycable/p…
🐥 Early bird tickets are available in limited quantities and going fast! All tickets include entry to both days, personalised badge, lanyard, t-shirt, swag bag, tea & coffee on arrival, lunch and afternoon tea on both days, and access to all networking events!
We've already run tests at > 1M events per second. Ready. 💪
Ready your servers, we all will be flooding you with data 🚀