I Switched My Booking App to Octane, Then Watched It Serve Yesterday’s Data to a New User
I Switched My Booking App to Octane, Then Watched It Serve Yesterday’s Data to a New User A ride-booking style app I maintain for a local transport…
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Our Activity Logs Table Hit 40 Million Rows, and Regular Indexing Wasn’t Cutting It Anymore
Our Activity Logs Table Hit 40 Million Rows, and Regular Indexing Wasn’t Cutting It Anymore A SaaS product I helped maintain, a small team collaboration tool, had…
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A Customer’s Money Left Their Wallet, But the Order Never Got Created
A Customer’s Money Left Their Wallet, But the Order Never Got Created I built a simple digital wallet feature for a local tutoring platform, students could top…
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An Admin Accidentally Deleted a Customer’s Entire Order History, and I Had No Way to Get It Back
An Admin Accidentally Deleted a Customer’s Entire Order History, and I Had No Way to Get It Back I got a panicked WhatsApp message from a client…
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A Simple Search Bar Nearly Took Down a Client’s Job Board Site
A Simple Search Bar Nearly Took Down a Client’s Job Board Site I built a job board for a small recruitment startup, listings, filters by category and…
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My Database Had “John SMITH”, “Sara Ahmed”, and “Muhammad Ali” Until I Fixed This One Thing
My Database Had “john SMITH”, “Sara ahmed”, and “MUHAMMAD Ali” Until I Fixed This One Thing I was building a small CRM for a local real estate…
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I Was About to Give Up Finding a Bug Until I Actually Installed Laravel Telescope Properly
I Was About to Give Up Finding a Bug Until I Actually Installed Laravel Telescope Properly A gym booking app I built had this maddening intermittent bug,…
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I Used to Just Add Foreign Keys and Hope, Until a Client Project Forced Me to Actually Learn Relationships Properly
I Used to Just Add Foreign Keys and Hope, Until a Client Project Forced Me to Actually Learn Relationships Properly Early on, whenever I needed related data…
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My Food Delivery App Worked Great With 50 Orders, Then Client Got Real Customers
My Food Delivery App Worked Great With 50 Orders, Then Client Got Real Customers I built an order history page for a small food delivery startup, showing…
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A Client Wanted Their WordPress Site AND a Laravel Livewire Tool, Here’s How “Livewire Is Not Defined” Nearly Broke Both
A Client Wanted Their WordPress Site AND a Laravel Livewire Tool, Here’s How “Livewire Is Not Defined” Nearly Broke Both A local insurance agent client already had…