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This week we do updates on string helpers, some other PRs, a little Ziggy talk, and we dig into the concept of "State Machines"\n\nLinks:\n\n- [[5.5] Use Support Carbon by lucasmichot \xb7 Pull Request #20568 \xb7 laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/20568 "[5.5] Use Support Carbon by lucasmichot \xb7 Pull Request #20568 \xb7 laravel/framework")\n- [pluginaweek/state\\_machine: Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class](https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine "pluginaweek/state\\_machine: Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class")\n- [[5.5] API Responses by themsaid \xb7 Pull Request #19449 \xb7 laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/19449 "[5.5] API Responses by themsaid \xb7 Pull Request #19449 \xb7 laravel/framework")\n- [Add Str::start() and str\\_start helper function by calebporzio \xb7 Pull Request #20569 \xb7 laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/20569 "Add Str::start() and str\\_start helper function by calebporzio \xb7 Pull Request #20569 \xb7 laravel/framework")