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After years of iteration, this is the project structure I reach for on every new Laravel app. Actions, services, form requests, and Pest tests. All of it.

Every year someone declares PHP dead and Laravel irrelevant. Every year I start another Laravel project. Here's why I'm not switching.

Fifteen years is a long time to do anything. Here are the lessons, technical and otherwise, that I wish someone had told me on day one.

I grew up in Kansas, discovered the web in the late 2000s, and somehow ended up writing code full-time in Florida. This is that story.

After 15 years of building things with PHP and Laravel (with two podcasts and a YouTube channel on the way), I figured it was time to start writing things down. Here's why.