Hafiz Riaz

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

Laravel Security DevOps

Stop Sharing .env Files in Slack: Laravel's Built-In env:encrypt Workflow

Laravel can encrypt .env files so they live in git, readable only with the key. The workflow, the new diff-friendly mode...

Oct 15, 2026 11 min read

Filament Laravel Livewire

Filament 5.10 Security Fixes: The Livewire Scope Gap Your Upgrade Doesn't Close

Filament fixed four security advisories in 5.10. Upgrading closes most of them, but one root cause sits in Livewire and...

Oct 12, 2026 12 min read

Laravel Laravel AI SDK AI Agents

Laravel AI SDK Skills: Load Agent Instructions Only When They're Needed

Agent skills landed in Laravel AI SDK v1.1.0. Here is how LoadSkill works, and how to give each team its own skills from...

Oct 08, 2026 12 min read

DevOps macOS Backups

How I Set Up Encrypted Off-Site Backups for My MacBook With restic and Backblaze B2

My Mac had zero backups. Now it has encrypted daily snapshots on Backblaze B2 for pennies a month. The setup, the costs,...

Oct 05, 2026 14 min read

Laravel Migrations MySQL

Squashing Laravel Migrations: 5 Ways schema:dump --prune Bites a Real Team

schema:dump --prune turns hundreds of migrations into one file. I reproduced the five ways it quietly breaks a team, and...

Sep 30, 2026 10 min read

Laravel Mercure FrankenPHP

Laravel Mercure Broadcasting: Real-Time Without a WebSocket Server (and 3 Setup Traps)

Laravel 13.32 ships a Mercure broadcast driver. I built presence and encrypted channels on FrankenPHP and hit three trap...

Sep 28, 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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