Eric Barnes

Developer certifications have earned most of the eye-rolls they get. The typical one tests whether you memorized a question bank, and a question bank is trivia with a proctor attached. AI certifications somehow made it worse. The big-vendor AI certificates, AWS, Azure, Google, all of them, test AI knowledge closed-book, multiple choice, no AI in the room. Even GitHub's new agentic AI certification examines you on directing agents without letting you direct one.

Laravel has opened applications for the Founders Summit, a one-day gathering for a focused group of founders and leaders who have built their business on Laravel. It's set for November 2026, and the location will be shared with applicants once they're approved. This is not a conference with a speaker lineup. It's a small room of people running real companies, and the pitch is about comparing notes rather than watching talks.

You spend your time writing clean migrations, validating every request, and keeping your dependencies current. But the moment your application goes live, it stops being your code and becomes an internet-facing target — and attackers don't read your codebase. They scan your domain from the outside, looking for the one open port, the expired certificate, or the leaked framework version you forgot about. That outside view is exactly what you never get to see. Sensagraph gives it to you.