Hi everyone,It's php news and so much more here at PhpWeekly. In Podcasts we have new episodes from The North Meets South guys on Laracon, controller middleware, and permissions. Syntax recaps the the current state of web authentication, and Laravel Podcast sits down with David Hill, the Head of Design at Laravel and shares his journey from industrial design to digital product design. Finally in the Reading section we have articles on Mastering the Factory Pattern in PHP, Simplifying Your Eloquent Queries, and Mastering the Singleton Pattern in PHP. We have all that and more, so we do hope you enjoy this week's newsletter.