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Running the deepseek R1 AI model on an M4 Pro Macbook

published on January 31, 2025

With new the deepseek model taking the world by storm, and being open source, can we utilize gen AI privately on our own hardware?

Effective code reviews with PR chunks

published on August 13, 2024

If your PR takes a while to be reviewed, approved in a suspiciously fast manner or is exclusively full of nits then it could be your fault!

Fix broken laravel valet installation on MacOS

published on June 15, 2023

Fix laravel valet not starting and throwing errors in the console due to not finding a PHP executable, or file not found by doing a clean install

Setup a Laravel development environemnt on Windows with WSL2

published on October 01, 2022

Setup a fully functioning development enviroment for Laravel on windows using WSL2 and ubuntu, you get to daily Windows and develop apps on linux just as god intended!

Translating form fields in Laravel

published on May 11, 2022

Translate form fields names, whether they belong in a web form or an API response so these names can be readable by the user in their selected language when validation fails

Conditionally loading relations in Laravel resources

published on April 29, 2022

Avoid N+1 query problem in resources especially when you have nested resources in a response, and cut down json parsing time by eliminating ununsed data from it

How to override default validation messages in Laravel

published on March 10, 2022

Override the default validation messages in Laravel, by either changing the defaults or changing the message for a specific request

Feature and Unit tests, what they are and how to use them in Laravel

published on January 02, 2022

How each one of these tests is supposed to work, how to utilize them in your development lifecycle, and how to specifically use them in Laravel and phpunit