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Claude Code for Symfony and PHP: The Setup That Actually Works

Claude Code is a CLI tool that lets you use AI directly from your terminal to write, edit, and review code in your projects. I've been using it daily to work on PHP applications (Symfony and EasyAd...

Stop Building Laravel Admin Panels From Scratch — Meet Lara Dashboard

Are you still spending weeks building the same boring admin panel features for every client project? User management, role management, permissions, blog systems, media libraries... the list goes on...

PHP Top Salaries, 100% Remote – Surviving the AI Compression Era

One measures, plans, understands load distribution, humidity, long-term material behavior. The other is very, very fast with a nail gun. Now someone invents a nail gun that shoots 10x faster and ne...

Serve AI-Ready Markdown from Your Symfony App

They just want clean, structured content. As tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and autonomous crawlers increasingly browse the web, serving raw HTML to them becomes inefficient. HTML contains...

Auto-Generate Swagger Docs in Laravel — Zero Annotations, Zero Config

What if your Laravel app could scan your controllers, read your FormRequest rules, and generate a complete Swagger UI automatically? No @OA\ annotations. No YAML files. No config. Just your existin...

How to Scale to a Billion Documents in Symfony

If you regularly drive a car, you will no doubt be familiar with fuel prices. They vary wildly from country to country, change frequently depending on global oil prices, and are a constant discussi...

Building Real Agentic AI in PHP with Neuron AI, Gemini, and Tools

For years, using AI in PHP meant little more than sending prompts to an API and displaying the result. Valuable, yes, but also limited, fragile, and prone to hallucinations. Instead of a single pro...

PHP Snippets: Property Hooks

PHP 8.4 just made our lives easier. Remember all those getter and setter methods we wrote? There's a better way now. No separate methods needed. The get hook capitalizes the first letter when readi...

Handling Nested PHP Arrays Using DataBlock

PHP DataBlock is designed to improve the developer experience when working with complex and deeply nested PHP arrays. Not because arrays are bad, but because nested, dynamic arrays are everywhere.

Modern PHP Development: Best Practices for Today

PHP has evolved dramatically in recent years. PHP 8.x brings powerful features that enable cleaner, more performant code. This guide covers modern PHP practices that every developer should know. Co...

Imagem Docker. Para rodar projetos PHP em menos de 30 segundos.

Nesta semana, lançamos a versão 8.5 da nossa imagem Docker para aplicações PHP, agora com PHP 8.5 e nesse post vamos falar um pouco de como utilizar essa imagem. Na Convenia, a maior HR Tech do Bra...

Laravel Prompts: Interactive CLI Made Simple

Help, My Laravel API Call is Ghosting Me: A 503 Horror Story

We’ve all been there. It’s a quiet Tuesday, you’ve got your coffee, and you’re integrating a simple API—in my case, Monnify. You use the Laravel Http facade because you’re a sophisticated, modern d...

How to Handle Validation Errors in Symfony the Right Way

Handling validation errors is something every Symfony API needs — yet it often ends up messy, repetitive, and inconsistent. Modern Symfony makes request validation elegant with DTOs and attributes ...

Help, My Laravel API Call is Ghosting Me: A 503 Horror Story

We’ve all been there. It’s a quiet Tuesday, you’ve got your coffee, and you’re integrating a simple API—in my case, Monnify. You use the Laravel Http facade because you’re a sophisticated, modern d...

Why you should always check licenses in your PHP project

When we consider dependencies in a PHP project, we typically focus on security, performance, and maintenance. One critical aspect is often overlooked: software licenses. Whether you are building an...

I built my own S3 for $5/mo Shared Hosting (because no one else did)

I was looking for a way to have S3-compatible object storage without paying AWS/Cloudflare/Backblaze fees, and specifically, I wanted to run it on the cheap Shared Hosting (cPanel) plan I already p...

Introducing Symfony Object Mapper: Clean and Explicit Object Mapping in Modern PHP

Modern software engineering is experiencing a strong maturation phase within the PHP ecosystem, driven by increasing demands for scalability, architectural clarity, and developer productivity. In t...

How I Optimized Database Queries by 90% in a Laravel Application

When I inherited a Laravel application that was struggling with performance issues, the biggest bottleneck wasn't the code—it was how we were querying the database. The application was loading us...

How I Optimized Database Queries by 90% in a Laravel Application

When I inherited a Laravel application that was struggling with performance issues, the biggest bottleneck wasn't the code—it was how we were querying the database. The application was loading us...