Field notes, photo essays and scheduled background chores - a deliberately content-heavy Laravel site we use to exercise the serverless platform end-to-end. Every page you read here is rendered by PHP on demand, and every row of data lives in a managed database. Even the cron page is real.
Three recently published pieces, freshly served from MySQL.
Empty huts, frosted mornings and three days of huts-and-tussock joy on one of New Zealand's Great Walks just after the booking window closes.
By Holly Pereira - 14 May 2026
Hard drives die, services close, and JPEGs get lost in the laundry. A practical 3-2-1 layout that takes a Sunday to set up and a decade to forget.
By Jamie Le - 12 May 2026
Seven dinners, one small raised bed, and the slightly humbling discovery that silverbeet does in fact go in everything.
By Mei Tanaka - 10 May 2026
Articles, categories and pagination all come from Eloquent, so cold-starts and connection reuse on the serverless platform are exercised on every request.
The gallery is plenty of static images shipped in /public/images,
so you can confirm the Webslice CDN is doing its job.
A heartbeat, a featured-article rotator and a cleanup task run on Laravel's scheduler. The cron page shows the last 50 runs.
If you see fresh rows below, the scheduler is alive.
| Job | Status | Message | Ran at |
|---|---|---|---|
| demo:heartbeat | ok | Scheduler reached the application. | 1 hour ago |