Laravel is a genuinely great framework. It has a polished DX, an enormous ecosystem, and it gets you productive fast. It's also full of traps. Most of those traps share a common shape. Laravel makes the wrong thing convenient. The framework hands you a f…

Traditional web apps rot. Every dependency is a ticking clock. You ship something that works. Six months later you're updating packages not because anything broke, but because you got a security warning or a deprecation notice. Now you have to upgrade X,…

DRY is dogma. Don't Repeat Yourself. Nobody remembers learning it, but everyone believes it. See two similar things? Extract them. Share them. Reuse them. This has always been bad advice. AI just makes it indefensible. Shared Code is a Liability The pr…