Laravel Valet is the next generation development environment for Mac minimalists (laravel-news.com)

I love the simplicity in this. No more using Vagrant or Mamp for a local dev environment.

"... then it utilizes DnsMasq to proxy all requests to the .dev TLD to sites on your local machine"

This seems a poor choice as local TLD given that .dev is now an actual, real world TLD.

A far better choice, that would have served as a constant reminder of the Valet name, would have been .val