My Days at Laravel Live Japan 2026

Japanese version available on note . Hi, I'm chatii @chatii . I recently attended Laravel Live Japan 2026. Here's what inspired me and what I took home from the conference. Profile Organizer of PHP Conference Kagawa Encountered PHP back in the 4.x era Freelancer English level: "Can read reasonably well," "Can write a little," "Can listen a bit," "Cannot speak at all." 5/23 PHP×Tokyo - Laravel Live Japan PRE-PARTY PHP×Tokyo - Laravel Live Japan PRE-PARTY - connpass (English follows Japanese) PHP×Tokyoは、PHPやLaravelが好きなエンジニアのためのインターナショナルなミートアップです。 日英のライブ翻訳付きなので、英語が得意でなくても大丈夫です！言語の壁を越えて、PHP/Laravelについて語り合いましょう！ 登壇者も募集中です！登壇を希望する方はこちらからご応募ください。 登壇は日本語・英語どちらでも大丈夫です。 #### タイムテーブル * 13:00 - 13:30 受付 & ネットワーキング * 13:30 - 13:40 オープニング * 13:40 - 14:10 "Man... phpxtky.connpass.com I first participated in "PHP×Tokyo March 2026." It was my first time attending a meetup with international participants. I couldn't speak English, but I hoped to be able to communicate somehow. Back in March, David helped me immensely with translation, which made me feel a bit apologetic... At the PRE-PARTY, I took the plunge. During the networking session, I managed to approach Victor Ukam , who gave the talk "Manage AI Prompts as Versioned Files in PHP," and said in English, "I have a question...!" Well... communication after that relied on Google Translate, but I was able to overcome the "first hurdle." You could say I successfully executed <?= "Hello, World" ?> . Also, it was great to see Ivan again, who came from Russia. I first met him in March, and I was so happy he came over to say hello! 5/25 Eve of the Conference, Gyoza Restaurant Zumi organized an unofficial pre-party via the laravel-live-jp channel on the "Laravel Japan" Discord. Participating in these "fringe events" around a conference is always fun. I had booked a hotel from the day before, so I joined in. The real-time translation app that Albert Chen built was incredibly high-performance... 5/26 Day 1 ...Actually, I couldn't sleep at