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Clean Architecture and TDD in a Laravel App
Oct 2025 · PHP

Clean Architecture and TDD in a Laravel App

The idea behind clean architecture is simple to say and hard to keep: your business logic should not depend on...
Vue Router: Routing a Vue SPA
Oct 2025 · Vue.js

Vue Router: Routing a Vue SPA

A single-page app swaps views without full page reloads, but it still needs URLs, so pages can be bookmarked,...
Laravel Vapor: When to Use a Load Balancer
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Laravel Vapor: When to Use a Load Balancer

Something has to receive a web request from the internet and hand it to your HTTP lambda. Vapor gives you two...
Laravel Queue Workers: How They Work
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Laravel Queue Workers: How They Work

A queue worker sounds mysterious until you see what it actually is: a plain PHP process running in the backgro...
Laravel Queues and Deployments
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Laravel Queues and Deployments

A queue worker is a long lived process that booted your application once and keeps it in memory. That is what...
Building and Running a Scheduled Task in Laravel
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Building and Running a Scheduled Task in Laravel

You schedule a task with a tidy one liner, but it helps to know what Laravel actually does when that task is d...
Building a Weekly Cohort Retention Curve in Laravel
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Building a Weekly Cohort Retention Curve in Laravel

A reader asked me to help build a retention curve from their database. Their site had a multi step signup, and...
Doctrine Entities and the EntityManager in Symfony
Oct 2025 · Symfony

Doctrine Entities and the EntityManager in Symfony

Doctrine is the ORM that ships with Symfony, and it lets you work with database rows as plain PHP objects. You...
Authentication in Symfony
Oct 2025 · Symfony

Authentication in Symfony

Authentication answers one question: who is this user? Symfony's security system handles it, and while it has...
Props and Emits in Vue 3
Oct 2025 · Vue.js

Props and Emits in Vue 3

Components talk to each other in two directions: data flows down through props, and events flow up through emi...
Introduction to Exception Handling in Laravel
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Introduction to Exception Handling in Laravel

Every Laravel application sits inside a big try and catch that you never wrote. When a request comes in and yo...
Building a Live Search with Autocomplete in Laravel
Oct 2025 · Laravel

Building a Live Search with Autocomplete in Laravel

A search box that suggests results as you type makes a site feel quick and helpful. The shape is always the sa...
useState and How React Re-renders
Sep 2025 · React

useState and How React Re-renders

useState is the first hook everyone learns, and on the surface it is simple: a value and a function to change...
Deploy Laravel on a DigitalOcean Droplet with Caddy: A 2026 Guide
Sep 2025 · DigitalOcean

Deploy Laravel on a DigitalOcean Droplet with Caddy: A 2026 Guide

This is the guide I wish I had the first time I put a Laravel app on a real server. It walks you from an empty...
String Manipulation Commands in Redis
Sep 2025 · Laravel

String Manipulation Commands in Redis

A Redis string is not just a place to dump a single value. You can treat it like a buffer and work on parts of...
Making HTTP Requests in Flutter with Dio
Sep 2025 · Flutter

Making HTTP Requests in Flutter with Dio

Most apps are a friendly face over an API. Flutter can do HTTP with the official http package, and for simple...
What Is AWS Lambda, and How Laravel Vapor Uses It
Sep 2025 · Laravel

What Is AWS Lambda, and How Laravel Vapor Uses It

Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS Lambda. The clever engineering i...
Watchers in Vue 3: watch and watchEffect
Sep 2025 · Vue.js

Watchers in Vue 3: watch and watchEffect

Watchers run a side effect when reactive data changes: fetch on a query change, validate on input, sync to sto...
Why Your Laravel Queue Workers Are Not Restarting
Sep 2025 · Laravel

Why Your Laravel Queue Workers Are Not Restarting

Restarting workers belongs in every deploy script, because workers run the code they booted with. The command...
Creating Custom Blade Directives in Laravel
Sep 2025 · Laravel

Creating Custom Blade Directives in Laravel

When you find the same chunk of logic creeping into your Blade templates, an if block repeated across many vie...