Tech Weekly

After working on more than 25 projects with Laravel, I’ve made enough mistakes to stop calling them “preferences.” Some patterns are no longer optional for me; they are rules. These are not theoretical best practices. They come from real situations where things broke, scaled poorly, or became painful to maintain..

One of the biggest reasons developers enjoy working with Laravel is not just the framework itself, but the ecosystem surrounding it. Over the years, the community has produced an incredible number of high-quality packages that extend Laravel in practical ways. Instead of rebuilding common features from scratch, developers can rely.

PHP 8.4 introduced several improvements, but one of the most interesting changes to the language’s object-oriented model is Property Hooks. At first glance, many developers focus on the obvious benefit: reducing the need for repetitive getters and setters. However, there is a less talked-about feature hidden inside this addition that.

Getting Back Into Writing (And AI Experiments) It’s been a while since I last posted here, but this feels like a good time to pick it up again. Lately, like most developers in 2025, I’ve been experimenting heavily with LLMs and AI agents. I’ve tried Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Roo.

Age Is Not a Weakness People often say “PHP is old” as if that alone is an argument against it. But age in technology doesn’t automatically mean irrelevance. In many cases, it means something far more important: it solved real problems early enough to matter, and it kept solving them.