Lanre Malumi

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fixing Scrollable Social Embeds in Editor.js

While building the blog section of my portfolio, I wanted posts to support more than just text and images. I added social media embeds so I could drop in posts from Twitter, Instagram and Facebook when they were relevant.

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