Engineering
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Engineering
Claude, Grok, OpenAI Can Build Your App in 10 Minutes. But Here's How You End Up Debugging for 100 Hours
AI really can produce a working app in minutes. And people really do lose weeks debugging what it made. Both are true, and the gap between them is not the model's fault.
Engineering
Getting Started With Laravel 12
Laravel 13 shipped in March 2026, but Laravel 12 is what most production apps run today and it gets security fixes into 2027. A practical starting guide, from install to your first real feature.
Engineering
SendGrid Too Expensive? Here Are 11 Free SMTP Servers That Work, and the One I Choose
SendGrid's free plan is now a 60 day trial. So I went looking at what a small SaaS can actually use for transactional email without paying, and picked one for my own product.
Engineering
I Tried Twilio, Telnyx, and OpenPhone. Only One Let Me Launch Fast
I needed a business number that could send texts. I figured it was an afternoon of work. Then I met A2P 10DLC, and learned the real difference between these three providers has little to do with their APIs.
Engineering
The Hosting Platform I Trust for My SaaS and Why I Chose Railway
Building Beetasky while balancing a full-time remote job and freelance work meant I couldn’t afford slow infrastructure or complicated deployments. With queues, automation, Redis, and multiple environments running behind the scenes, I needed hosting that stays stable, deploys fast, and keeps my focus on building instead of managing servers.