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Migrating from PrismPHP to the Laravel AI SDK
Migrating from PrismPHP to Laravel's official AI SDK broke two agents silently. Here's what went wrong with temperature support, strict mode schemas, and error handling — and how to fix each one.
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I Can't Write a Single Line of PHP. Here's What I Can Do.
Updated:I literally cannot write a line of PHP from memory. But I've shipped a full Laravel SaaS, fixed N+1 queries, handled security reports, and made 120+ commits in two months. Code is no longer the bottleneck.
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What the Heck Is Blaze and Why Do I Need It?
Laravel Blaze makes your Blade components render up to 97% faster with zero code changes. A plain-English guide for non-traditional developers to the optimized compiler, memoization, and code folding — and why Flux + Blaze is the easiest performance win you'll ever get.
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How a 6KB Column Was Slowing Down Every Page in My Laravel App
Every page in Growth Method was loading 6KB of invisible vector data per campaign. Here's how I found the problem, the three options I evaluated, and the ten-line global scope that fixed it.
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Adding User Impersonation to Laravel (The Right Way)
I removed my is_admin column two weeks ago. Now I need to log in as users again. Here's how I added impersonation to Growth Method without reintroducing the super admin concept I'd just deleted.
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When Your Laravel App Needs Both MCP and API Access
MCP servers are great for AI chat, but sometimes you need the underlying API too. How we handle both in Growth Method using a driver pattern — one credential, two access strategies.
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Removing Spatie Permissions for a Single Laravel Gate
How I removed spatie/laravel-permission from Growth Method, replaced it with a single Gate and a team_user pivot, and shipped the change in three safe phases. Net result: 295 fewer lines of code and one rule instead of five tables.
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The Axios Supply Chain Attack: What Laravel Developers Need to Know
A compromised npm account turned Axios into a RAT dropper for 3.5 hours. Here's what happened, why AI coding agents make supply chain attacks worse, and 10 protections every Laravel project should have.