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Laravel 13.26 Made Queue Rerouting Much Cleaner
I recently wrote about some of the queue improvements in Laravel 13.25, especially the ability to pause all queues at once. Then Laravel 13.26 showed up with another queue feature that caught my attention.
Temidayo Malumi: One Year After 🕊️
Today marks one year since we lost you. It still feels surreal to me that you're no longer with us. Not a day goes by without you coming to mind, just thinking about what things would have been like if you were still here.
When WordPress Stopped Making Sense
For a long time, WordPress was more than enough for what I needed. I had used it for regular websites, ecommerce projects, content management and client work. So when I started working on something that needed a separate frontend, going headless felt like the natural next step.
A Few Things I Noticed in Laravel 13.25
Laravel 13.25 landed with some updates and fixes. Rather than go through everything in the release, three changes stood out to me, particularly because I can see where they could come in handy in real projects.
Getting WooCommerce Cart to Work with React
Building SnackStation started with a simple idea: use WooCommerce for the commerce backend and React for the customer-facing experience. The architecture made sense. WooCommerce would handle products, orders, and payments while React handled the storefront.