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Laravel 11.35 introduced the Uri class powered by the PHP League’s URI library. Uri makes it easy to manipulate and work with URIs in your Laravel application and includes some conveniences around named routes.

Basic Manipulation

At the heart of the Uri class is creating and manipulating URI strings, including the query, fragment, and path:

use Illuminate\Support\Uri;

$uri = Uri::of('https://laravel-news.com')
    ->withPath('links')
    ->withQuery(['page' => 2])
    ->withFragment('new');

(string) $url; // https://laravel-news.com/links?page=2#new

$uri->path(); // links
$uri->scheme(); // https
$uri->port(); // null
$uri->host(); // laravel-news.com

Also, note the difference between getting the URI value and decoding the URI:

Query Assertion and Manipulation

Asserting and manipulating the URI query params has never been easier in Laravel, using the accompanying UriQueryString under the hood. The UriQueryString class uses the support trait InteractsWithData, which gives you a bunch of useful methods for asserting a query string:

use Illuminate\Support\Uri;

$uri = Uri::of("https://laravel-news.com")
    ->withPath("links")
    ->withQuery(["page" => 2, 'name' => ''])
    ->withFragment("new");

$uri->query()->all(); // ["page" => "2"]

$uri->query()->hasAny("page", "limit"); // true
$uri->query()->has("name"); // true
$uri->query()->has('limit'); // false
$uri->query()->missing('limit'); // true

$uri->query()->filled('page'); // true
$uri->query()->filled("name"); // false
$uri->query()->isNotFilled("name"); // true
$uri->query()->isNotFilled("page"); // false

$uri->query()->string("page", "1"); // Stringable{ value: 2 }
$uri->query()->integer("limit", 10); // 10

Learn about all the useful methods that InteractsWithData provides to the UriQueryString instances to assert and manipulate query data.

Get an Uri Instance from Named Routes, Paths, and the Current Request

The Uri class can also create a URI from a named route in your application, a relative URL, or even from the current Request instance:

// Using a named route
(string) Uri::route("dashboard"); // http://laravel.test/dashboard

// Using a root-relative URL
(string) Uri::to("/dashboard"); // http://laravel.test/dashboard

// From the current request
function (Request $request) {
    (string) $request->uri(); // http://laravel.test/dashboard
}

As of Laravel 11.36, the Uri class is aliased by default in Laravel applications, meaning you can use it without importing the Illuminate\Support\Uri namespace.

Learn More

We hope you enjoy using Uri in your Laravel applications! The Uri class was released in Laravel 11.35 in #53731. Also, read up on InteractsWithData, which provides a ton of useful methods for working with the Uri class, the Fluent class, and Laravel’s HTTP Request class (via InteractsWithInput).

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From Russiagate to the uselessness of masks to Hunter Biden’s laptop, the pattern we’ve all come to recognize is Democrat-controlled institutions lying to our face about something, then accusing people of being “conspiracy theorists” when people question the false narrative. Time after time, the “conspiracy theorists” were proven right.

So let’s hear Townhall’s Larry O’Connor talk about those missing 15,000,000 Biden votes from the 2020 Presidential election.

Democrats have been confronted by a whole lot of difficult truths following this election: A majority of Americans dislike their party, people hate wokeness, and Joe Biden was just as senile and corrupt as Republicans have argued all along.

Now they should face up to the fact that President Lol81million’s 2020 “victory” was due to massive voter fraud.

Just like all of us said four years ago.

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Blade Fragments enable partial page updates by returning specific template sections, ideal for use with htmx or Turbo frameworks.

Using Blade Fragments

Basic fragment definition and usage:

// In your blade template
@fragment('notification-list')
    <div class="notifications">
        @foreach($notifications as $notification)
            <div class="alert">
                
            </div>
        @endforeach
    </div>
@endfragment

// In your controller
return view('dashboard')
    ->fragment('notification-list');

Real-World Implementation

Example of a live notification system:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Notification;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class NotificationController extends Controller
{
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $notification = Notification::create([
            'user_id' => auth()->id(),
            'message' => $request->message,
            'type' => $request->type
        ]);

        if ($request->hasHeader('HX-Request')) {
            return view('notifications.index', [
                'notifications' => auth()->user()->notifications()->latest()->get()
            ])->fragmentIf(
                $request->hasHeader('HX-Request'),
                'notification-list'
            );
        }

        return back();
    }

    public function clear(Request $request)
    {
        auth()->user()->notifications()->delete();

        return view('notifications.index', [
            'notifications' => collect()
        ])->fragment('notification-list');
    }
}

Template structure:

<!-- notifications/index.blade.php -->
<div class="container">
    @fragment('notification-list')
        <div class="notification-wrapper">
            @forelse($notifications as $notification)
                <div class="alert alert-">
                    
                    <span class="timestamp">
                        
                    </span>
                </div>
            @empty
                <p>No notifications</p>
            @endforelse
        </div>
    @endfragment
</div>

Blade Fragments represent Laravel’s commitment to modern, interactive web development, offering a server-side solution that integrates seamlessly with progressive enhancement techniques while maintaining the simplicity developers expect from Laravel.

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Paul Knopp, KPMG US CEO, writing in an op-ed on WSJ: According to a United Nations estimate, 230 languages went extinct between 1950 and 2010. If my profession doesn’t act, the language of business — accounting — could vanish too. The number of students who took the exam to become certified public accountants in 2022 hit a 17-year low. From 2020 to 2022, bachelor’s degrees in accounting dropped 7.8% after steady declines since 2018. While the shortage isn’t yet an issue for the country’s largest firms, it’s beginning to affect our economy and capital markets. In the first half of 2024, nearly 600 U.S.-listed companies reported material weaknesses related to personnel. S&P Global analysts last year warned that many municipalities were at risk of having their credit ratings downgraded or withdrawn due to delayed financial disclosures. Our profession must remove hurdles to learning the accounting language while preserving quality. In October, KPMG became the first large accounting firm to advocate developing alternate paths to CPA licensing. We want pathways that emphasize experience, not academic credits, after college. Most people today must earn 30 credits after their bachelor’s degrees — the so-called 150-hour rule — work under a licensed CPA for a year, and pass the CPA exam to become licensed. Research by the Center for Audit Quality finds that the 150-hour rule is among the top reasons people don’t pursue CPA licensure. A December 2023 study found that the requirement causes a 26% drop in interest among minorities. There is a consensus for change, but we can’t waste time. Many state CPA societies are working on legislation to create an alternative path to licensure. State boards of accountancy should replace the extra academic requirement with more on-the-job experience. A person who is licensed in one state should be able to practice in another even if reforms create different licensing requirements.

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The U.S. Marine Corps has officially declared the MK22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) fully operational, a year ahead of schedule. Manufactured by Barrett Firearms, this cutting-edge system represents a monumental leap in sniper capabilities, offering unmatched precision, flexibility, and sustainability to Marines in the field.

A Game-Changer for Marine Snipers

The MK22 replaces the legacy M40A6 and Mk13 Mod 7 sniper rifles, consolidating their roles into a single modular platform. This bolt-action rifle supports multiple calibers—7.62x51mm NATO, .300 Norma Magnum, and .338 Norma Magnum—giving Marines the ability to tailor their weapon for specific mission requirements. With an effective range of up to 1,500 meters, the MK22 outpaces its predecessors while lightening the logistical load.

Kevin Marion, a logistics specialist with Marine Corps Systems Command, highlighted the operational advantages: “Marines like the ability to conduct caliber conversions at their level and the fact that they only have one rifle instead of the two it replaced. This shift improves operational efficiency, reduces the logistical burden, and lightens the individual Marine’s load.”

Barrett’s Commitment to Innovation

Barrett Firearms, renowned for its contributions to military precision weaponry, played a pivotal role in the MK 22’s development. Bryan James, CEO of Barrett Firearms, emphasized the importance of this milestone:

“The MK22 isn’t just another rifle; it’s a modular, mission-adaptable system that empowers the warfighter with unmatched precision and flexibility. We’re honored to contribute to this pivotal modernization effort for the U.S. Military and Marine Corps, and to support our nation’s elite forces.”

Barrett’s design philosophy centered on creating a complete system for operational efficiency. Each MK 22 kit includes three barrels, a state-of-the-art M317 Precision Day Optic (7-35x variable magnification), 15 magazines, a cleaning and tool kit, a sound suppressor, and mission-specific components like a scout sniper tripod and anti-reflection device.

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Built for Versatility & Sustainability

The MK 22’s modularity allows Marines to quickly convert calibers in the field, ensuring readiness for any mission. The rifle’s design also simplifies maintenance, enabling most repairs to be completed at the organizational level. Should a barrel fail, it can be replaced without sidelining the weapon, a critical improvement over older systems.

“Maintenance is streamlined, and the ability to conduct caliber conversions in the field ensures that Marines are equipped for any mission, anytime, anywhere,” James added.

Collaboration Across Forces

The MK 22’s journey began as part of a Special Operations Command (SOCOM) initiative and transitioned to the Marine Corps via the “Special Operations Forces (SOF) to service” process. Contracting was led by the U.S. Army, whose collaboration with Barrett and the Marine Corps helped fast-track the program to full operational capability.

Maj. Michael Billings of Marine Corps Systems Command called the achievement a major win: “FOC a full year ahead of schedule is a testament to the teamwork and dedication of all parties involved. This milestone delivers enhanced sniper capabilities to the battlefield sooner than expected.”

Preparing for the Future Fight

The MK 22 exemplifies the Marine Corps’ commitment to staying ahead of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China. As Marines adopt this revolutionary system, they gain a tactical edge, ensuring readiness for the challenges of modern and future warfare.

As Bryan James aptly put it, “The MK 22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle exemplifies our dedication to precision, innovation, and mission success. As the Marine Corps ushers in this new era of sniper capabilities, Barrett stands ready to support their efforts and the future fight.”

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One year ago, I didn’t know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe.

If everything went perfectly, I could turn out something plain but palatable. But should anything change—temperature, timing, flour, Mercury being in Scorpio—I’d turn out a partly poofy pancake. I presented my partly poofy pancakes to people, and they were polite, but those platters were not particularly palatable.

During a group vacation last year, a friend made fresh sourdough loaves every day, and we devoured it. He gladly shared his knowledge, his starter, and his go-to recipe. I took it home, tried it out, and made a naturally leavened, artisanal pancake.

I took my confusion to YouTube, where I found Hendrik Kleinwächter’s “The Bread Code” channel and his video promising a course on “Your First Sourdough Bread.” I watched and learned a lot, but I couldn’t quite translate 30 minutes of intensive couch time to hours of mixing, raising, slicing, and baking. Pancakes, part three.

It felt like there had to be more to this. And there was—a whole GitHub repository more.

The Bread Code gave Kleinwächter a gratifying second career, and it’s given me bread I’m eager to serve people. This week alone, I’m making sourdough Parker House rolls, a rosemary olive loaf for Friendsgiving, and then a za’atar flatbread and standard wheat loaf for actual Thanksgiving. And each of us has learned more about perhaps the most important aspect of coding, bread, teaching, and lots of other things: patience.

Hendrik Kleinwächter on his Bread Code channel, explaining his book.

Resources, not recipes

The Bread Code is centered around a book, The Sourdough Framework. It’s an open source codebase that self-compiles into new LaTeX book editions and is free to read online. It might have exactly one recipe, if you can call a 68-page middle-section journey a recipe. It has 17 flowcharts, 15 tables, and dozens of timelines, process illustrations, and photos of sourdough going both well and terribly. Like any cookbook, there’s a bit about Kleinwächter’s history with this food, and some sourdough bread history. Then the reader is dropped straight into "How Sourdough Works," which is in no way a summary.

"To understand the many enzymatic reactions that take place when flour and water are mixed, we must first understand seeds and their role in the lifecycle of wheat and other grains," Kleinwächter writes. From there, we follow a seed through hibernation, germination, photosynthesis, and, through humans’ grinding of these seeds, exposure to amylase and protease enzymes.

I had arrived at this book with these specific loaf problems to address. But first, it asks me to consider, "What is wheat?" This sparked vivid memories of Computer Science 114, in which a professor, asked to troubleshoot misbehaving code, would instead tell students to “Think like a compiler,” or “Consider the recursive way to do it."

And yet, "What is wheat" did help. Having a sense of what was happening inside my starter, and my dough (which is really just a big, slow starter), helped me diagnose what was going right or wrong with my breads. Extra-sticky dough and tightly arrayed holes in the bread meant I had let the bacteria win out over the yeast. I learned when to be rough with the dough to form gluten and when to gently guide it into shape to preserve its gas-filled form.

I could eat a slice of each loaf and get a sense of how things had gone. The inputs, outputs, and errors could be ascertained and analyzed more easily than in my prior stance, which was, roughly, "This starter is cursed and so am I." Using hydration percentages, measurements relative to protein content, a few tests, and troubleshooting steps, I could move closer to fresh, delicious bread. Framework: accomplished.

I have found myself very grateful lately that Kleinwächter did not find success with 30-minute YouTube tutorials. Strangely, so has he.

Sometimes weird scoring looks pretty neat.

Kevin Purdy

Sometimes weird scoring looks pretty neat.

Kevin Purdy

I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results.

Kevin Purdy

I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results.

Kevin Purdy

Cross section.

Kevin Purdy

Cross section.

Kevin Purdy

I have tried doing decorative "leaves" and other little scoring designs, with varied results.

Kevin Purdy

Cross section.

Kevin Purdy

The slow bread of childhood dreams

“I have had some successful startups; I have also had disastrous startups,” Kleinwächter said in an interview. “I have made some money, then I’ve been poor again. I’ve done so many things.”

Most of those things involve software. Kleinwächter is a German full-stack engineer, and he has founded firms and worked at companies related to blogging, e-commerce, food ordering, travel, and health. He tried to escape the boom-bust startup cycle by starting his own digital agency before one of his products was acquired by hotel booking firm Trivago. After that, he needed a break—and he could afford to take one.

“I went to Naples, worked there in a pizzeria for a week, and just figured out, ‘What do I want to do with my life?’ And I found my passion. My passion is to teach people how to make amazing bread and pizza at home,” Kleinwächter said.

Kleinwächter’s formative bread experiences—weekend loaves baked by his mother, awe-inspiring pizza from Italian ski towns, discovering all the extra ingredients in a supermarket’s version of the dark Schwarzbrot—made him want to bake his own. Like me, he started with recipes, and he wasted a lot of time and flour turning out stuff that produced both failures and a drive for knowledge. He dug in, learned as much as he could, and once he had his head around the how and why, he worked on a way to guide others along the path.

Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake.

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Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake.

Kevin Purdy

You wanted avocado toast; now you’ve got… this.

Kevin Purdy

You wanted avocado toast; now you’ve got… this.

Kevin Purdy

Too thick to be a flatbread, too flat to slice for breakfast: The painful pancake.

Kevin Purdy

You wanted avocado toast; now you’ve got… this.

Kevin Purdy

Bugs and syntax errors in baking

When using recipes, there’s a strong, societally reinforced idea that there is one best, tested, and timed way to arrive at a finished food. That’s why we have America’s Test Kitchen, The Food Lab, and all manner of blogs and videos promoting food “hacks.” I should know; I wrote up a whole bunch of them as a young Lifehacker writer. I’m still a fan of such things, from the standpoint of simply getting food done.

As such, the ultimate “hack” for making bread is to use commercial yeast, i.e., dried “active” or “instant” yeast. A manufacturer has done the work of selecting and isolating yeast at its prime state and preserving it for you. Get your liquids and dough to a yeast-friendly temperature and you’ve removed most of the variables; your success should be repeatable. If you just want bread, you can make the iconic no-knead bread with prepared yeast and very little intervention, and you’ll probably get bread that’s better than you can get at the grocery store.

Baking sourdough—or “naturally leavened,” or with “levain”—means a lot of intervention. You are cultivating and maintaining a small ecosystem of yeast and bacteria, unleashing them onto flour, water, and salt, and stepping in after they’ve produced enough flavor and lift—but before they eat all the stretchy gluten bonds. What that looks like depends on many things: your water, your flours, what you fed your starter, how active it was when you added it, the air in your home, and other variables. Most important is your ability to notice things over long periods of time.

The Bread Code‘s depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined.

The Bread Code

The Bread Code‘s depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined.

The Bread Code

If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl.

The Bread Code

If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl.

The Bread Code

The Bread Code‘s depiction of how sourdough starters are born, developed, and refined.

The Bread Code

If you take nothing else from The Bread Code, take this: You can measure a sample of your dough in an easy-to-read container, rather than guess at a big bowl.

The Bread Code

When things go wrong, debugging can be tricky. I was able to personally ask Kleinwächter what was up with my bread, because I was interviewing him for this article. There were many potential answers, including:

• I should recognize, first off, that I was trying to bake the hardest kind of bread: Freestanding wheat-based sourdough
• You have to watch—and smell—your starter to make sure it has the right mix of yeast to bacteria before you use it
• Using less starter (lower “inoculation”) would make it easier not to over-ferment
• Eyeballing my dough rise in a bowl was hard; try measuring a sample in something like an aliquot tube
• Winter and summer are very different dough timings, even with modern indoor climate control.

But I kept with it. I was particularly susceptible to wanting things to go quicker and demanding to see a huge rise in my dough before baking. This ironically leads to the flattest results, as the bacteria eats all the gluten bonds. When I slowed down, changed just one thing at a time, and looked deeper into my results, I got better.

The Bread Code YouTube page and the ways in which one must cater to algorithms.

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YouTube faces and TikTok sausage

Emailing and trading video responses with Kleinwächter, I got the sense that he, too, has learned to go the slow, steady route with his Bread Code project.

For a while, he was turning out YouTube videos, and he wanted them to work. “I’m very data-driven and very analytical. I always read the video metrics, and I try to optimize my videos,” Kleinwächter said. “Which means I have to use a clickbait title, and I have to use a clickbait-y thumbnail, plus I need to make sure that I catch people in the first 30 seconds of the video.” This, however, is “not good for us as humans because it leads to more and more extreme content.”

Kleinwächter also dabbled in TikTok, making videos in which, leaning into his German heritage, “the idea was to turn everything into a sausage.” The metrics and imperatives on TikTok were similar to those on YouTube but hyperscaled. He could put hours or days into a video, only for 1 percent of his 200,000 YouTube subscribers to see it unless he caught the algorithm wind.

The frustrations inspired him to slow down and focus on his site and his book. With his community’s help, The Bread Code has just finished its second Kickstarter-backed printing run of 2,000 copies. There’s a Discord full of bread heads eager to diagnose and correct each other’s loaves and occasional pull requests from inspired readers. Kleinwächter has seen people go from buying what he calls “Turbo bread” at the store to making their own, and that’s what keeps him going. He’s not gambling on an attention-getting hit, but he’s in better control of how his knowledge and message get out.

“I think homemade bread is something that’s super, super undervalued, and I see a lot of benefits to making it yourself,” Kleinwächter said. “Good bread just contains flour, water, and salt—nothing else.”

A test loaf of rosemary olive sourdough bread. An uneven amount of olive oil ended up on the top and bottom.

Credit:
Kevin Purdy

You gotta keep doing it—that’s the hard part

I can’t say it has been entirely smooth sailing ever since I self-certified with The Bread Code framework. I know what level of fermentation I’m aiming for, but I sometimes get home from an outing later than planned, arriving at dough that’s trying to escape its bucket. My starter can be very temperamental when my house gets dry and chilly in the winter. And my dough slicing (scoring), being the very last step before baking, can be rushed, resulting in some loaves with weird “ears,” not quite ready for the bakery window.

But that’s all part of it. Your sourdough starter is a collection of organisms that are best suited to what you’ve fed them, developed over time, shaped by their environment. There are some modern hacks that can help make good bread, like using a pH meter. But the big hack is just doing it, learning from it, and getting better at figuring out what’s going on. I’m thankful that folks like Kleinwächter are out there encouraging folks like me to slow down, hack less, and learn more.

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Axios’ CEO said this week that regular citizens can’t be journalists because they don’t have fancy credentials and demanded that we take corporate news seriously again.

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Warner Bros partnered with a PR firm to create Wayne Enterprises, a company that sells luxury items inspired by Batman and his billionaire alter ego, Bruce Wayne. That includes ten fully functional replicas of the Tumbler, the version of the Batmobile from Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy. The $3M vehicles have a 6.2L 525 hp engine plus gun and jet engine effects.

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