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Securing Laravel APIs: Passport vs Sanctum vs JWT Deep Comparison

01April 8, 2026 · 20 min readSecurity

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Securing Laravel APIs: Passport vs Sanctum vs JWT Deep

Evaluates three Laravel auth strategies for APIs - comparing token types, setup complexity, revocation, and mobile app scenarios.

Laravel
APIs
Security
Passport
Sanctum

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Newest production notes across Laravel, PHP, databases, security, performance, debugging, and release work.

29April 2, 2026 · 10 min readCode Quality

PHPStan Level 9 on Existing Laravel

A step-by-step PHPStan Level 9 adoption plan for existing Laravel applications, with baselines, module cleanup, CI rules, and SEO-safe releases.

PHPStan
Laravel
Code Quality
Testing

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30April 2, 2026 · 16 min readCore PHP

Understanding PHP Stream API: File I/O, Wrappers & Custom

Explores PHP streams - wrappers, filters, stream contexts, and building custom stream wrappers for exotic storage backends.

PHP
Streams
File IO
Wrappers

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31April 1, 2026 · 13 min readDatabase

Full-Text Search in PHP: Elasticsearch, Meilisearch

Compares search backends, integrates each with Laravel Scout, and benchmarks relevance and performance on large datasets.

PHP
Laravel Scout
Elasticsearch
Meilisearch

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32March 29, 2026 · 15 min readSymfony

Symfony UX Components: Turbo, Stimulus & Live Components

Shows how to build dynamic UIs in Symfony with UX Turbo page transitions, Stimulus controllers, and real-time Live Components.

Symfony
Symfony UX
Turbo
Stimulus

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33March 23, 2026 · 23 min readPerformance

PHP Profiling in Production: Blackfire, Tideways & SPX

Evaluates three PHP profilers for production use - setup, overhead, callgraph visualizations, and alerting on regressions.

PHP
Profiling
Blackfire
Tideways

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34March 17, 2026 · 12 min readLaravel

Laravel Precognition: Real-Time Validation Without Full

Deep-dive into Precognition - how it works, how to set it up with Inertia and Livewire, and front-end integration patterns.

Laravel
Precognition
Validation
Inertia

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35March 10, 2026 · 20 min readCore PHP

Building a PHP Blog Engine From Scratch: No Framework

Builds a feature-complete blog - routing, templating, SQLite storage, markdown support - using only the PHP standard library.

PHP
Blog Engine
SQLite
Markdown

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36March 4, 2026 · 14 min readAPIs

Building Webhooks in PHP: Payload Validation, Retries

Shows how to implement a robust webhook receiver - HMAC signature verification, duplicate detection, and async processing patterns.

PHP
APIs
Webhooks
Idempotency

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Built for search, readers, and future debugging.

Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
Implementation detailThe archive favors concrete Laravel and PHP decisions: Eloquent, Blade, queues, Filament, testing, security, structured data, deployment checks, and operational cleanup.
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