A paginated list of every article in the database. Filter by category to exercise query strings, or click into one to bump its view counter.
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
SQLite is wonderful. So is Postgres. Here is when the extra moving part is worth it for a side project that could grow up.
By Hana Nguyen - 6 May 2026
A field report from three months of running a real Laravel app on a serverless platform. The good parts, the gotchas and the surprisingly small operational footprint.
By Hana Nguyen - 28 Apr 2026
For small apps the database cache driver is good enough, and one fewer service to keep alive is one fewer thing to wake you up.
By Jamie Le - 23 Apr 2026