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Security · 10 min

Your Laravel AI Agents Need Middleware Too

Intercept brings middleware guardrails to Laravel AI agent prompts before they reach the AI provider.

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Ecosystem · 4 min

Everything is Markdown

How a 22-Year-Old Format Became the Invisible Standard of Digital Work in 2026

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Engineering · 9 min

AI Prompt Management in your Laravel applications

All the the control and confidence you need to evolve your prompts as your AI-native application grows.

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Engineering · 8 min

Lessons From Retiring a Legacy Software

A tale of my experience leading the decommissioning of our deeply integrated Photo Upload System for a modern build

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Engineering · 5 min

Essential Defaults to Configure for Your Next New Laravel Project

In this post, I’ll walk through four configurations I always implement fresh out of the gate. They might save you a few headaches later

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Engineering · 3 min

My “Go-Live” Checklist for SEO on a New Web App.

Optimize for visibility, discoverability, and performance from day one.

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Engineering · 2 min

Tracking Down Disposable Email Addresses in Laravel 11.x & 12.x Apps

Because your app deserves real email addresses.

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Engineering · 6 min

FTP-based CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Simplifying server-side configuration and deployment workflows — because efficiency doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Engineering · 3 min

Quickly Deploy Laravel 7, 8 or 9, 10, 11 and 12 Apps on Shared Hosting Servers via cPanel

Simplifying server-side configuration and deployment workflows — because efficiency doesn’t have to be complicated.

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