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PHP Laravel

Turning Laravel exceptions into explanations: my first open-source package

Every exception has two audiences that want opposite things — the developer who needs detail and the user who needs calm. I built a small Laravel package that serves both from the same throwable, using your own LLM keys. Here is what it does, the design rules an error handler forced on me, and what shipping a public package actually taught me.

Kolawole

1 month ago

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SaaS Building

Building Lumio: my first personal SaaS from idea to launch

Lumio is a PDF reader that lets students highlight text and receive AI explanations in text or audio. This is the full story of how it went from a problem worth solving to a deployed product — the system design, the stack decisions, and what building your own thing feels like after years of building for others.

Kolawole

4 months ago

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PHP Infrastructure

Why I moved SSE to Node.js (and off PHP-FPM forever)

PHP-FPM is excellent at what it was designed for. Long-lived streaming connections are not that. Here is what worker exhaustion taught me about architectural boundaries, and why SSE now lives exclusively on Node.js in every system I build.

Kolawole

4 months ago

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PHP Laravel

Laravel queue pub/sub with clue/redis-react: a practical guide

Polling-based Redis queues work until they do not. When you need true event-driven job dispatch without a persistent worker process watching a list, clue/redis-react gives you real pub/sub in PHP. Here is how the architecture works and how to implement it in a production Laravel app.

Kolawole

4 months ago

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Javascript

Decoding package.json in Node.js: Unveiling the Blueprint of Projects

Welcome back, fellow Node.js enthusiasts! In our previous exploration, we delved into the significance of npm and why it's a crucial companion in the Node.js ecosystem. Now, let's turn our attention to the cornerstone of npm — the package.json file.

Kolawole

2 years ago

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Javascript

Demystifying npm in Node.js: Unleashing the Power of Packages

In this section, we're diving into the realm of npm, a pivotal aspect of Node.js development. Let's unravel the mysteries of npm, exploring its dual role as the world's largest software library and a software package manager.

Kolawole

2 years ago

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