env('ERROR_NOTIFICATION_THROTTLE_MINUTES', 15) returns the literal string
"15" from production's .env (env() doesn't cast numeric strings), which
Carbon 3.11's addMinutes() rejects with a TypeError. That crash happened
before the throttle-dedup cache write, so it silently masked the *original*
exception on every notify-worthy error, indefinitely (discovered while
investigating a missing workshop-registration email — the real SMTP error
was hidden behind this crash). Cast to (int).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Naser Mansour