Articles

All the articles I've posted.

• What Building a Laravel App With AI Actually Taught Me About AI

  13 Feb, 2026

  Five things I learned about AI by building a real Laravel app with Claude Code. Not from reading articles — from doing the work and getting it wrong.

• Why Flux UI Ignored My Date Format (And How I Fixed It)

  11 Feb, 2026

  When Flux UI's chart format prop silently does nothing, the fix is to format your data in PHP instead. Three attempts, one lesson.

• Git for Non-Developers: You Don't Need to Learn the Commands

  11 Feb, 2026

  You don't need to memorise git commands to ship Laravel code. Here's how I learned git by asking an AI assistant to walk me through it — and how it eventually just handled it for me.

• Why My Flux UI Checkbox Didn't Work (And When to Use Native HTML Instead)

  11 Feb, 2026

  Flux UI's checkbox component silently does nothing in traditional HTML forms. Here's why, and when you need native HTML instead.