From the workshop: notes, patterns and lessons from projects building custom business software. No marketing, just what we actually learned. Written in English so everyone can read along.
Running SQLite on a Laravel Forge site with zero-downtime deployments? Every deploy quietly throws your entire production database away. Here is why it happens and how to fix it by moving the database into the shared storage directory.
If you ship AI guidelines with your Laravel package, Boost only reads a single core.blade.php per package and silently drops the rest. Here is the minimal pattern for package maintainers to split their guidelines into organized partials using a Blade view namespace.
The tools we refuse to ship Laravel code without: PestPHP, PHPStan, Rector, Pint, and a GitHub Actions matrix that runs our packages against every supported Laravel and PHP version.
