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How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js

One observer, one queued job, one model call, and a heuristic that runs when the model fails. This is the version that survived, and what I had to remove from the version I first wrote about.

December 19, 2025Read

PHPUnit is Dead to Me: Why I Only Test with Pest

Laravel

#laravel#php#pest+2

PHPUnit is Dead to Me: Why I Only Test with Pest

After twenty years of PHPUnit boilerplate, I switched to Pest and never looked back. Here's why the cleaner syntax, dataset testing, higher-order expectations, and architecture tests make it the only testing tool I use for Laravel.

December 2, 2025Read

Laravel

#Laravel#Docker#DevOps+4

Stop Polluting Your Mac: Why I Only Use Docker for Laravel

Local development environments are fragile sandcastles. Homebrew, XAMPP, and Valet are local state pollution. It's time to pave over them with concrete using Docker.

November 28, 2025Read

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