INSIGHTS / TECHNICAL DECISIONS
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Detailed, evidence-based articles about the decisions behind reliable AI products, maintainable Laravel systems and effective IT security.
Laravel security audit: a practical checklist for production applications
A prioritised audit checklist covering attack surface, configuration, dependencies, authorisation, data flows, jobs and deployment.
When is an AI agent ready for production? Boundaries, evals and approvals
A production-ready agent needs explicit states, restricted tools, measurable quality and human decisions at high-impact boundaries.
Taking over an existing Laravel project: a technical entry plan
How team leads use LLM-assisted code mapping, targeted tests, Xdebug and a controlled first delivery to take ownership of a Laravel system.
Secure Laravel authentication and session management
A technical guide to login, session cookies, password resets, email changes, MFA, magic links and secure account recovery.
10 common security mistakes in Laravel projects
Ten development mistakes that expose authorisation, uploads, database queries, webhooks and production Laravel systems to attack.
Laravel security starts before the controller
How tenant boundaries, policies, state transitions, queues and negative tests become verifiable security invariants.
Prioritising security findings and fixing them sustainably
How teams combine technical severity, reachability and business impact and turn a finding into a robust remediation.
What bug bounty experience changes in software development
Offensive security work trains people to recognise false assumptions and improves requirements, architecture, tests and remediation.
Preparing a penetration test: scope, access and evidence
What team leads should clarify before a pentest so depth, time budget, communication and retesting fit together.