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Building with AI, in practice
Practical tutorials and guides on AI-assisted development — Laravel, PHP, Next.js and Vue.js, developer tools, and technical career notes.
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Welcome: building with AI, in practice
This publication is about AI-assisted software development — the coding assistants, the workflows, and the backend engineering that make them work in…
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Zero-downtime deploys with Docker and GitHub Actions
The naive deploy is “SSH in, stop the old container, start the new one.” It works — and it drops every request…
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Retrying failed Laravel queue jobs without duplicate side effects
Retrying a failed queue job sounds simple: set $tries = 3 and move on. But retries have a sharp edge. If a…
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A practical Claude Code workflow for real projects
Claude Code isn’t autocomplete. It reads your repository, runs commands, and edits files across your project — which makes it powerful and…
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What actually advances a developer’s career
Early in your career, getting better at coding advances you. Then one day it stops working. You’re a strong engineer, you ship…
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Developer tooling that actually makes you faster
There’s an endless supply of “top 50 tools every developer needs” lists, and most of them are noise. New tools have a…
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How to structure a full-stack app the right way
Most full-stack apps don’t fail because of the framework. They fail because structure was an afterthought — business logic smeared across controllers,…
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An AI-assisted development workflow that ships code
AI coding assistants are everywhere now — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot. Getting them to autocomplete a line is easy. Getting them to…