Hafiz Riaz

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Practical Laravel articles on what I'm building and learning.

Laravel Vite Tooling

Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship Vite+. Here Is What vp migrate Does to an App You Already Have

Vite+ landed in every Laravel starter kit. Running vp migrate on an app you already have is a different story.

Sep 14, 2026 11 min read

Laravel Packages PHP

Spatie Permission vs Bouncer: One Question Decides Which One You Need

Spatie handles permissions on kinds of things. Bouncer handles them on particular things. That one difference decides wh...

Sep 10, 2026 8 min read

AI AI Agents Laravel

Every AI Word You Keep Hearing, Explained With Laravel Code

Thirty-one AI terms, grouped into five layers, each one anchored to code you can actually run in a Laravel app.

Sep 07, 2026 17 min read

Laravel Security Logging

Your Query Bindings Are in Your Logs: Laravel 13.27 Can Mask Them, and How to Clean Up What Leaked

Every failed query in Laravel writes its real values into the error message. Where they end up, the one line that stops...

Sep 02, 2026 7 min read

DevOps Claude Code tmux

How I Turned a €5 VPS Into a Dev Workstation I Can Use From Anywhere

One cheap VPS is the workstation. Laptop and phone are windows onto it. The full setup, the control panel, and the table...

Aug 31, 2026 25 min read

Laravel NativePHP Mobile

NativePHP v4: Build a Truly Native iOS Screen in Blade, No Xcode Required

NativePHP v4 turns Blade into real SwiftUI. I built a native screen, ran it on my iPhone without Xcode, and hit the shar...

Aug 26, 2026 11 min read

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What I Do

Full-stack web applications built with Laravel and Vue, SaaS platforms, Filament admin panels, and AI agent workflows.

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Featured Projects

Some of the SaaS products and client projects I've built over the years.

StudyLab.app

AI-based quiz and flashcards generator from PDFs

Laravel OpenAI Stripe

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Prompt Optimizer

Free AI-powered prompt enhancement tool for better AI results

Laravel Vue.js OpenAI

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carburantioggi.it

Live fuel-price map for Italy: petrol, diesel, LPG, and methane at 23,800+ stations, updated daily from government open data. Full-bleed map, 462 city and 20 region pages, 12 months of price history. No ads, no cookies.

Laravel MapLibre SQLite

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Trova il Fresco

Live map of 183,000+ free places to cool off across Italy: public fountains, libraries, shaded parks, official cooling shelters. Geolocated, filtered to what's open right now, no app or signup. Built in a day during a heat wave.

MapLibre OpenStreetMap JavaScript

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