Video Streaming with Laravel
2026-04-25
How I built Samson Media — and why, for me, it beats Jellyfin.
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Logging to your database is worth it
2026-04-23
It powered a one-click view of my whole request pipeline. The outage was a missing retention policy, not the idea.
Laravel Horizon and the maxProcesses trap
2026-03-23
Switching from raw queue workers to Horizon, and the memory bill that followed.
Laravel Livewire is a terrible idea
2025-11-21
Sending http request to handle browser only events is just stupid