Tag: Software Development

AI: What It Changed in My Developer Journey

It’s been more than a year and a half since I started using AI in its different forms, AI agents, AI-powered editors, LLMs, and chatbots. I’ve discovered many things that reshaped how I work as a developer. In this post, I want to share some quick but on the point insights from this journey.

Passion in software development

One of the strongest “drugs” consumed by followers of motivational speeches and the myths of personal development is the idea of “follow your passion”.. even in software engineering. The passion…

How to Add UUIDs to an Existing Laravel Database

Introduction UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) are 128-bit identifiers that are globally unique, making them ideal for scenarios where you want to hide sequential ID patterns from your users. This article…

Handling Date Fields. A Common Pitfall

In my Laravel hobby project, I had a field called date_covered defined as a date type, with now() as the default value. However, when I needed to manipulate this field,…