Web scraping in Laravel with Larascraper
I do a fair amount of scraping in Laravel, and it always splits into two worlds. Guzzle for the pages that are just HTML, and a mess of Puppeteer scri…
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Browser-based updates getting stuck on the "Confirm your admin email" screen — why Playwright stalls in wp-admin
On hosting environments without SSH access, the fallback is browser automation: Playwright logs into wp-admin and drives the plugin update screen dire…
🛡️ Building AbilityGuard: Monitoring the WordPress Abilities API in Production
A few weeks ago I wrote about the WordPress Abilities API — what it is, why WordPress 6.9 shipped it, and what it means for how plugins will talk to e…
Shared-Database Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: The Foundation Layer
TL;DR Shared-database multi-tenancy = one database, every row tagged with tenant_id , a global scope that filters automatically. Three moving parts: a…
Admin-editable SEO & analytics without touching .env
TL;DR Shipped a SEO + analytics baseline in Kickoff : meta/OG, canonical, JSON-LD org schema, dynamic robots.txt , sitemap, and admin-editable GA4/GTM…
Contract testing a Symfony API with OpenAPI
Contract testing a Symfony API with OpenAPI takes four moving parts: the OpenAPI spec, a WebTestCase (or a plain Request / Response pair), one trait, …
Constraining the Agent: What I Learned Wiring MCP Into a Legacy System
Notes from January 2026, when giving an AI agent live database access still felt reckless. Written for engineers who are about to do this, and for the…
Как ИИ не дал загнуться ещё одной ноунейм игре. Даже текстовой
Третий год по вечерам в одиночку пилю текстовую MMORPG в Telegram. Мрачный остров, выжившие, ресурсы, базы, драки. Проект уже один раз почти умер. Тян…
Кэширование в Symfony: мы сломали авторизацию и исправили это с помощью Lock
Мы добавили кэширование, чтобы ускорить работу бэкэнда. Затем кэширование нарушило авторизацию. Поначалу ситуация казалась безобидной. Сервису Symfony…
Turning an existing database into a documented Laravel API
The projects I dread are the ones where the database is the only documentation. Twenty tables, foreign keys, years of production data, and either no A…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Supercharge Your Algorithmic Trading with CoinQuant PHP: The Ultimate SDK for Laravel and PHP 8.1+
Are you tired of wrestling with raw cURL requests, parsing Server-Sent Events (SSE) by hand, and building complex polling loops just to interact with …
🐘 Like... TypeScript for PHP? Yes. And it's not what you think
It is time to bring opposites together, to stir up these stagnant waters, and to restore an industry that is dynamic from within, with multiple connec…
Dev Log: 2026-07-19
TL;DR Shipped an email broadcast module: audience filtering, suppression, queued per-recipient sends, delivery tracking. Fixed a silent implicit-route…
Your Seeder Should Describe a Shape, Not Your Laptop
TL;DR Rewrote a bootstrap seeder so the deployment stack — DB engine, queue runner, PHP version — is config, not hardcoded. Renamed it away from a pha…
Magento 2 Custom Product Options Performance: Optimization at Scale
Custom product options are one of those features every Magento store uses, but few optimize. They're deceptively simple — a dropdown for gift wrapping…
Building AI Agents in PHP: Tool Calling with Laravel
The problem: chat that can only talk The chatbot from earlier in this series can answer questions, but ask it "how many orders did we ship yesterday?"…
RAG in Laravel: Embeddings and pgvector for a Knowledge-Base Bot
In the last post we streamed AI responses over SSE. Now let's fix the problem every chatbot hits in week one: the model doesn't know your data. Ask it…
How to generate course completion certificates from HTML in Laravel
First published on the Accreditly blog . When someone finishes a course in your Laravel app they want proof: a certificate they can download, print an…
Why Your PHP Form Is Not Working — 5 Common Bugs Fixed
💡 TL;DR A broken PHP form almost always comes down to one of five things: wrong method attribute, a mismatched name on your input, checking $_POST wit…
Don't apply WordPress major releases on day one — the "x.0.1 rule" and a calibration framework
The companion to the seven things to check before a WordPress major upgrade is the question that comes right after: when do you actually apply it? A n…
Laravel 13.20 Image Processing: A Production Guide
Originally published on letmesend.email . I work on letmesend.email, and this is an adapted edition of that guide. This article was prepared with AI-a…
Что будет, если убрать из ORM предположение «одна таблица — одна entity»?
Большинство ORM строятся вокруг естественного предположения: одной таблице соответствует одна entity . Это настолько привычно, что даже не о…
dompdf Alternatives: HTML to PDF in Laravel Without a Headless Browser
Generating a PDF in Laravel means choosing which problem you want to own. dompdf makes you write CSS like it's 2011. Snappy chains you to an abandoned…
The Reconciler Pattern: When a Queued Job Simply Never Runs
TL;DR A job dispatched once , at row-creation time, has a silent failure mode: if that dispatch is lost, the row sits pending forever — and never appe…
The Specification Pattern in Laravel: Refactoring Complex Business Rules
As our Laravel applications grow, we inevitably face a common architectural dilemma: where do we put complex business logic that dictates whether an e…
Testing Laravel Events and Listeners: Ensuring Reliable Asynchronous Workflows
In modern Laravel applications, events and listeners are the glue that holds our complex business logic together. They allow us to decouple our code, …
Manticore Speaks MySQL - So I Made It a Laravel Database Driver Instead of a Scout Engine
The problem I've been working with Manticore Search for about two years at EricaPRO , building the search layer for two financial data platforms. For …
Why Laravel's Service Container Feels Like Magic: Dependency Injection Explained
1. Hook & Problem Statement You’ve been there. You're building a Laravel application, and everything is going smoothly. You type Route::get('/orde…
ScyllaDB PHP Driver 1.4.0: the extension is pure C23 now
The ScyllaDB PHP driver is not a C++ extension anymore. As of 1.4.0 it's pure C23, the ZendCPP template layer we leaned on for the object embed and al…