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Coding agents made implementation cheap, but validation never got cheaper. That shift moves the bottleneck from writing code to deciding what is worth building, and the response is more autonomy and faster iteration, not more detailed upfront plans.
A client project I work on required some processing, scheduled nightly at 2am. I’m a curious creature, by nature, so I was eager to
Recruitment was not the easiest business to work in during the first year of the pandemic. The first things that come to mind when thinking
Recently, we were looking into some Laravel PHP8 performance issues we were experiencing on one screen of a web application. This screen would show an
The set up When developing software, you sometimes come up with ideas that in the end don’t really work out. Depending on the idea
I’ve very recently passed a personal milestone in my career. I facilitated my first ever event storm. As with most things you haven’t
One of the most important things when starting to work on a project is to set up a local development environment. For me, this should
We all had to do it at some point. We’ve all been in the situation where we needed to add some code — maybe a
As many of you know Laravel provides a concept for dealing with Polymorphism in Eloquent relationships called “Polymorphic Relationships“. It’s a nice abstraction, but
Separating your bounded contexts A challenge when implementing bounded contexts is managing the dependencies between them. We always aim to make bounded contexts as independent
It’s pretty evident that a startup in 2024 faces unique challenges that just haven’t existed in other years. Every entrepreneur knows that they
If you have a really simple PHP application that you deploy to a single server, deploying it basically boils down to transferring the source code
If you’ve ever watched a TV show like “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” or similar then you’re probably aware of how important it is
During the past years, I’ve interviewed a lot of developers, technical leaders, and CTOs. There are a few key things I’ve learned about
Every time I work on code with someone I haven’t worked with before, I end up having the same conversation. It usually starts when
This is a follow-up article on Machine Learning, Part 2. Have you read the introduction to Machine Learning (Part 1) already? The next thing I
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