The awesome team at Tighten published a great document on how to implement RAG in a Laravel project with semantic search and vector databases.
Here's a nice collection of modern CSS snippets to replace older techniques.
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Claude Code has three core extensibility features that can be confusing at first glance. Here's a breakdown of commands, skills, and sub agents - what they do, when to use them, and how they work together.
I'm still learning a lot about agentic coding and Claude Code specifically. Here's a list of some helpful tips and tricks to hopefully make your learning curve a little easier
Problem solving is a universal skill, and developers have a unique edge, our work trains us to think systematically. In DHH’s interview with the Primeagen they take a deep dive on a variety of topics, including being ready to figure stuff out.
One trait that serves any professional well is the ability to learn from others and incorporate beneficial systems that others have established. The Essential Craftsman drops some knowledge bombs that every web developer can benefit from.
I you do any work with arrays in Laravel or Craft you will instantly benefit for harnessing the power and utility of Laravel Collections. For Laravel, for Craft.
Great concise video on Laravel actions, how to create them and how to test them.
Another handy little Laravel helper, abort_if. Perfect little helper inside actions when things go wrong.
Great little Laravel model tip. Use the "wasRecentlyCreated" model attribute to check if your model was created or found 👍
You can use the Section Rendering API to request the HTML markup for theme sections using an AJAX request. This can allow you to update page content without reloading the entire page by fetching and dynamically replacing only certain elements 🤯. More details here, https://shopify.dev/docs/api/a... Skip to 2:40 in the video to see Wes Bos explain in.
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