Notes on Laravel
Articles, tutorials, and practical tips on building with the Laravel PHP framework.
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What Building a Laravel App With AI Actually Taught Me About AI
Five things I learned about AI by building a real Laravel app with Claude Code. Not from reading articles — from doing the work and getting it wrong.
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I Asked AI to Audit My Page Speed. It Found 9 Issues.
One question to Claude Code — "is there anything obvious that could be having a negative impact on performance?" — turned up 9 issues on a single page. Here's what it found and why each one matters.
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Fixing Common Local Dev Errors When You First Pull a Laravel Project
A practical guide to fixing the most common errors you'll hit when pulling a Laravel project locally for the first time — S3, Algolia, Livewire, and more.
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Why My Flux UI Checkbox Didn't Work (And When to Use Native HTML Instead)
Flux UI's checkbox component silently does nothing in traditional HTML forms. Here's why, and when you need native HTML instead.
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Git for Non-Developers: You Don't Need to Learn the Commands
You don't need to memorise git commands to ship Laravel code. Here's how I learned git by asking an AI assistant to walk me through it — and how it eventually just handled it for me.
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Why Flux UI Ignored My Date Format (And How I Fixed It)
When Flux UI's chart format prop silently does nothing, the fix is to format your data in PHP instead. Three attempts, one lesson.