I spent days rebuilding a feature Laravel took away. The project never shipped. Laravel used to ship team support through Jetstream. Authentication, invitations, permissions. Install it, move on, build your actual product. Then Laravel replaced Jetstream with starter kits. Team support vanished. No migration path, no replacement, no timeline. When
Last week I switched my code editor from Sublime Text to Zed. Not because Zed is better. I've been a Sublime user for years and it still does everything I need. I switched anyway, the same way I once switched from Sublime to VS Code, then months later,
When Livewire 4 came out, I had to upgrade it across multiple Laravel projects. I sat down with my AI coding agent, gave it the upgrade docs, and set it loose. It made a plan. I reviewed it, gave the go-ahead. The upgrade was done faster, without the usual grind.
I let AI write a feature. The tests passed. I shipped it. Then a user found a bug the test suite never covered, because I never thought to test for it. The gap in AI coding workflows isn't that AI writes bad code. It's that we
I got paid a week early this month. You'd think that's a good thing. For years, I had a rhythm you could set a watch to: send my invoice on the 28th, get paid the first week of the next month, immediately pay my taxes. Receive,
I had to show a customer a prototype last week. Our shared gallery layout wasn't working for them—too few photos visible at once, especially with mixed portrait and landscape shots. They needed proof we were listening. The safe move would've been a staging environment, a
We all keep a list of features we'll build someday. I have one too. Moodboards. Payment integrations. In-app photo sales. They've been sitting on my backlog for months. Untouched. Last week, I built a text box instead. A blank rectangle. You paste a list of filenames,
A short email from my business partner. A forwarded newsletter — a competitor's changelog. They'd shipped WhatsApp notifications. Automated reminders fired straight from photographers' personal numbers. Can we build this? I assumed Meta had an official API for this. They don't. The only legitimate
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