A real audit of a real page: every query logged, every relationship traced, every redundant call eliminated. The exact tools, the exact fixes, and the before/after numbers that made the team go silent in the code review. The number came from Laravel Debugbar. 847 queries.… Read More »How One Laravel Developer Reduced Database Queries From 847 to 11 on a Single Page
Scoped context, streaming responses, user-specific memory, cost controls, fallback behaviour when the API is down, and the one architectural decision that kept AI completely isolated from the rest of the codebase — a practical implementation story, not a toy demo. The demo version of “add… Read More »How I Added an AI Copilot to My Laravel App in 4 Hours — Without Breaking Anything That Was Already Working
N+1 queries, missing indexes, unvalidated inputs, hardcoded values, untested edge cases, and the 11 other things that slip through code review when you don’t have a checklist. Steal this. Your future self will thank you. Most code reviews catch the obvious things. The typo in… Read More »The Laravel Code Review Checklist My Team Uses Before Every Single Merge
Discriminated unions, template literal types, infer keyword, satisfies operator, const type parameters, NoInfer utility type — the TypeScript features that sit between “I know TypeScript” and “TypeScript is doing the work for me.” The upgrade path from competent to dangerous. Most developers who use TypeScript… Read More »TypeScript’s Most Useful Features That Most JavaScript Developers Never Touch
Same feature set. Same database. Same Laravel backend. One built with Inertia + Vue, one built with Livewire 4. Here are the real differences in DX, performance, bundle size, SEO, and the type of team each one actually suits — not the marketing version. I’ve… Read More »Laravel Inertia.js vs Livewire in 2026: The Honest Answer After Building the Same App Both Ways
this.$emit becomes defineEmits, this.$refs becomes useTemplateRef, mixins become composables, and filters are just gone — the complete migration guide for the specific patterns that break silently, compiled without errors, and only showed bugs in production three weeks later. The official Vue 3 migration guide is… Read More »Upgrading a Vue 2 Options API Component to Vue 3 Composition API With TypeScript — The Mistakes Nobody Warns You About
AI agents need tests to work safely — and it turns out, they’re also remarkably good at writing them. Here’s the exact workflow: human writes the feature, agent writes the Pest tests, agent runs them, agent fixes failures. The feedback loop that cut our bug… Read More »Writing Laravel Tests With AI Agents: The Workflow That Changed How My Whole Team Ships
Three AI coding tools. One task: build a multi-tenant billing feature with Eloquent, Stripe, Pest tests, and a Livewire UI. An honest, side-by-side account of where each tool shone, where each produced confidently wrong Laravel code, and which one I’d pay for with my own… Read More »I Used Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot on the Same Laravel Feature. Only One Felt Like Pair Programming.
Facades are not static classes, singletons, or global state — they’re proxies to the service container. Every misconception explained, the real performance cost measured (spoiler: it’s zero), when to use them and when to inject instead, and why Taylor Otwell still defends them in 2026.… Read More »The Laravel Facade Is Not What You Think It Is — And Misunderstanding It Is Making Your Code Worse
Jeffrey Way said it at PHPverse 2026: “If you’re leveraging AI agents, a full test suite is a requirement.” Here’s what that means in practice — the tests you need before you can trust an agent to touch your codebase, the ones that catch what… Read More »AI Agents Are Only as Good as Your Test Suite — Here’s Why That Changes Everything About How You Write Tests