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Over the years, I’ve deployed a lot of projects. Small client websites, Laravel apps, WordPress installs, internal tools… and almost every time, the process looked similar. Spin up a VPS, install a stack, configure domains, set up backups, tweak security, and repeat. It worked, but it was never smooth. Every.

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.