46 articles
Insights and deep dives into modern web development, software engineering best practices, and the latest technologies I'm working with.
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A senior Laravel/Vue developer shares what six months of building on legacy codebases without authoring code looks like — receipts, limits, and workflow.
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Hitting Claude Code usage limits? Context commands, CLAUDE.md tuning, and MCP management that cut my token burn 50-70% on the Pro plan.
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How I used Claude Code agents to audit and optimize an entire blog: title fixes, internal linking, and measurable before/after results.
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Kimi K2 (Moonshot AI, released July 2025) runs in Claude Code through an Anthropic-compatible API. Three setup methods, token cost vs Claude, and known gotchas.
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How I took a Hermes Agent setup from a fresh install on EC2 to an always-on hub on my Steam Deck: what runs on it, what broke in the move, and what I'd repeat.
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A Laravel 13 upgrade with Claude Code, step by step: CLAUDE.md notes, plan mode scoping, guarded Composer changes, test gates, and what a human must review.
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TypeSafe AI's Jev returns typed, calibrated decisions, not text. Where it fits for coding agents in Claude Code: PreToolUse permission gates and agent routing.
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I can't design, so I let the taste skill for Claude Code audit my site. It fixed the look and found a dark mode bug I had shipped to visitors for over a year.
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Node 24 end of life is April 30, 2028; October 20 only starts Maintenance LTS. What changes for Laravel, Vapor, and Lambda teams, plus the March 2027 deadline.
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Laravel 12 bug fixes ended August 13, 2026; security fixes end February 24, 2027. What security-only means, a 30-minute audit, and when to move to Laravel 13.
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PHP 8.2 end of life is December 31, 2026, when security fixes stop. What EOL means for PCI and SOC 2, PHP 8.4 vs 8.5, and a dated Laravel upgrade plan.
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Upgrade PHP for Laravel the right way: a staged 8.3 to 8.4 to 8.5 path, the PHP 8.4 breaking changes that bite, CI matrix, canary rollout, and rollback.
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Laravel 13 needs PHP 8.3 and renames VerifyCsrfToken. The 7 breaking changes that cause real incidents, upgrade paths from 10, 11, and 12, and real timelines.
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