Just learned about pinggy.io. Neat little service! I wonder how many requests/second that phone can serve. Nowadays, phone specs aren't too bad for a simple web server.
As someone who's been using PHP since the late 90s, I'm greatly enjoying this renaissance in its fashionability. Seeing multiple comments on HN genuinely recommend it is odd.
Laravel was the first framework I ever used. Until now, I haven't come across any other framework that is well-designed, and enjoyable to use as Laravel (and made PHP fun). I always assumed Laravel was the standard, but sadly that it's not the case.