curl could reach it, Node could not
A deploy check reported a total outage against a site that was serving fine. The difference was 250 milliseconds of Happy Eyeballs, and it cost me an hour twice.
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Writing & notes
Practical posts on Nuxt, Laravel, DevOps, and what shipping software actually looks like.
Cascade layers only work if you declare the order first
A class selector in my own layer was losing to a type selector in a framework reset. The layer order I had carefully declared was being ignored, and nothing said so.
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I moved a Nuxt site to a plain Node server and every route rule silently stopped working. Nothing warned me, nothing failed, and the site got slower forever.
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Controllers should orchestrate, not implement. Moving business logic into dedicated Action classes keeps your Laravel codebase readable, testable, and change-friendly.
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Before I write a single line of application code, I sit with the schema. Here is why the data model is the most important design decision you will make on any project.
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