This past week I was thinking about the effect the proliferation of AI is was having on page builders. I saw the article WordPress Market Share Declines For Six Months In A Row reposted on LinkedIn. My immediate thought was that AI chatbots and coding agents were steering folks to static hosting. Both GitHub and Cloudflare’s pages products have a free tier that would more than cover most people’s…
It is not uncommon for a Laravel project. To start with data. A company will come to you with the database that they already have, need to tightly interface with a tool that does not have an API, or you’ll be rewriting an existing application that needs to run in parallel with the new one.
Let’s think about how we build out the index page of an application that lists places. We’ll keep it really simple. There will be one router resource called places and will allow it to serve the traditional crud routes. After a short time, the number of places that our application tracks will be too long to display in one page. And will want to give the user a way to search that list as well. I…
My two favorite programming books _why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby and Crafting Interpreters heavily feature their respective author’s art. I want to emulate people who’s work I admire and add some (less artfully excuted) doodles to my notes.
Issue writing, like all forms of writing is more of an art than science. Just as different flavors of narrative writing have shared idioms and patterns that help the reader understand it, well written issues have shared elements as well.