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Monday, September 1, 2025

Understanding Laravel .env Files: Hidden Tricks, Tips & Best Practices

If you’ve worked with Laravel, you’re surely familiar with the humble .env file. It’s that simple text file where you keep configuration secrets and environment-specific settings.

Best Practices

Friday, August 29, 2025

Ghostable’s Origin Story: When Security Becomes the Easy Path

Ghostable exists to make secrets management simple, secure, and affordable. This is the story of why it was built—and why the secure path should always be the easy path.

Product Updates

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

What the Laravel APP_KEY Leak Means for Your App Security

In July 2025, researchers uncovered a critical issue that hit close to home for Laravel developers: thousands of Laravel APP_KEYs had been leaked into public repositories.

Security

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Best Practices

Variable Expansion in Laravel .env (a few powerful patterns)

Laravel’s .env files can do more than just hold static values. With variable expansion, you can reference one environment variable inside another—making your configuration cleaner, more consistent, and easier to manage across environments.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Events

Laracon US 2025: Quick Notes from Denver

July 29–30, 2025 — Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO. Great venue, awesome energy, plenty of familiar faces, and lots of new ones.

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