I Migrated a Laravel App to a Custom PHP Framework in One Claude Code Session

How Claude Code built 3 framework packages, scaffolded a full application, and got 12 pages rendering — all in a single session.

March 19, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Manage DigitalOcean Infrastructure With Ansible for Laravel and PHP Apps

How to structure an Ansible repo to manage two DigitalOcean droplets, six Laravel apps, and a Go microservices platform without replacing the existing Deployer workflow.

March 18, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Start developing with Laravel on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Get from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to a running Laravel 12 app using the official installer first, then the DDEV option for container-based workflows.

February 22, 2026 · 2 min · Russell

Using Laravel Boost With DDEV

Set up Laravel Boost as an MCP server inside DDEV, with a WSL configuration for Windows users.

February 10, 2026 · 2 min · Russell

How We Got DDEV, Laravel, and a Go API Talking: The Sidecar Approach

Run a Go API as a DDEV sidecar so Laravel in the web container can call it by service name, with one shared secret for signed requests.

February 18, 2025 · 3 min · Russell