Deep-dive articles, step-by-step tutorials, and real-world case studies on modern full-stack development — written by a developer, for developers.
FeaturedSeven Stripe failures from a live production platform — stranded holds, masked declines, captures that never happened — and what actually fixed them.
Dinesh Wijethunga3 months ago
FeaturedA deep dive into how an open-source AI crypto trading bot built on Claude works — the multi-agent LLM pipeline, the machine-learning ensemble, layered risk management, and an honest look at what the backtests actually show. Built with Python, Next.js, and the Anthropic API.
Dinesh Wijethunga3 months ago
FeaturedHiggsfield's "unlimited" only works in the web UI — the CLI and API always bill credits. Here are the real per-clip costs, a plan-sizing calculation, and exactly when to use each path.
Dinesh Wijethunga3 months ago
FeaturedA security-first guide to using Claude AI on a production server: guardrails, human-in-the-loop sudo, and how the AI found a real exposed API in hour one.
Dinesh Wijethunga4 months ago
FeaturedWhat if someone needs to build an app quickly by combining these? This might seem overwhelming. With Laravel 12, now it's very easy to integrate with React, Vue, and most other client-side languages. This blog will teach you how to set up a Laravel app with InertiaJS and React for MPA web applications.
Dinesh Wijethunga4 months agoBuild a REST API with Laravel 13 and Sanctum in 30 Minutes
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Wire Jenkins to a private GitHub repo the least-privilege way: per-repo deploy keys, a read-only fine-grained PAT, a push webhook — and the two credential mistakes that cost me a build each.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 1 month ago
Put Jenkins on https://jenkins.yourdomain.com with nginx — and learn from the mistake where certbot --nginx edited the wrong vhost and briefly broke TLS on a production wildcard domain.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
The 2026 guide to installing Jenkins on Ubuntu 24.04 — including the two traps behind "Package 'jenkins' has no installation candidate" and the setup-wizard choices that actually matter.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
Set up Husky in a Laravel 12 + React repo so Laravel Pint formats every commit automatically and your JS tests gate every push — without ever making developers wait on the full PHP suite.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
Husky, Jenkins and Ansible solve three different problems. Here's the layered CI/CD architecture I run for a production Laravel SaaS — and why you probably need two of the three, not one.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
A senior engineer's guide to SSH key setup on Mac — with the reasoning behind every step, the gotchas most tutorials skip, and how to fully harden your server against password-based attacks.
Dinesh Wijethungaabout 2 months ago
The honest 6th part: the dead ends, wrong guesses, and walls the polished tutorials skip. A confidently wrong AI diagnosis, a "frozen" terminal that was fine, and a 403 where the data was perfect but the code disagreed — and why the AI's limits turned out to be its safety features.
Dinesh Wijethunga2 months ago
A 502 that was a stopped process. A CORS error that was a permissions bug. An OAuth failure that was a config typo. A 403 that was a one-word mismatch. How Claude AI traced five hidden layers of a broken login — where not one symptom pointed at its own cause.
Dinesh Wijethunga2 months agoGet new articles, tutorials, and case studies delivered to your inbox. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
