My First Week With GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my actual opinion…
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Claude Code is Having Its Cursor Moment
Remember a few months ago when Cursor launched their $200/month plan? They marketed it as essentially unlimited usage with "20x more than Pro." Users…
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I was working on a blog post about how AI would eventually replace social media when OpenAI just... did it. They launched Sora 2…
Read postLaravel’s $touches Property: Automatic Parent Timestamp Updates
Laravel's $touches property automatically updates parent model timestamps when child models are modified. Basic Usage class Comment extends Model { protected $touches = ['post'];…
Read postCreating PDFs with Chart.js charts in Laravel using wkhtmltopdf
Rendering Chart.js charts into PDFs with wkhtmltopdf can be surprisingly tricky. wkhtmltopdf uses QtWebKit (an older browser engine), while Chart.js draws on an HTML5…
Read postOnly Experts Can Write Good Prompts
Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That's not…
Read postETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble
Stock prices are at all-time highs and traditional valuation metrics like P/E ratios are largely ignored. At the same time, passive investing through ETF…
Read postGPT-5 Is the Best Coding Model in the World: Biggest Leap Since 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5 doesn't just write code; it thinks like an engineer. When faced with complex dependency conflicts that stumped previous models, GPT-5 takes a methodical…
Read postLaravel Factories
In Laravel, a Factory is a class dedicated to generating instances of your Eloquent models. They solve a fundamental problem: your application needs data…
Read postHow to Limit WSL2 Resource Usage with .wslconfig
The WSL2 virtual machine (Vmmem process) can consume a significant amount of system memory and CPU. You can set resource limits by creating a…
Read postIs Docker Making Your Computer Slow? Here Is How to Find the Problem
Does your computer fan get loud when you run Docker or your system becomes sluggish? Usually, the problem is not Docker itself, but a…
Read postFix Insane Disk I/O in Laravel Sail: Disable MySQL Binary Logs
Is your Docker-based development environment sluggish? Do your fans spin up for no reason? If you run docker stats, do you see your MySQL…
Read postStop Using git checkout
Git 2.23 introduced two commands that replace the two different jobs git checkout used to do: git switch — change or create branches git…
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