Found burger.zip from 2015 on my old drive, one of my first paid web gigs, a burger builder for a Swiss client. Rebuilt it next door in TypeScript + GSAP, kept the original jQuery version intact so you can see both side by side. Two gotchas inside: GSAP silently overwriting CSS transforms, and an agent polishing away the hand-drawn anatomy of the bottom bun.
dev.to/tegos/reincarnating-a-decade-old-jquery-project-26ob
Wrote a follow-up on my laravel-telescope-flusher package with real benchmark numbers. `telescope:clear` takes 2.5 hours on 1M entries and leaves 3 GB locked in your `.ibd` files, because InnoDB doesn't return disk after `DELETE`. The flush variant uses `TRUNCATE` + `OPTIMIZE TABLE`, finishes in 1.21 seconds, and actually gives the disk back.
dev.to/tegos/why-telescopeclear-is-slow-and-how-to-reclaim-disk-in-seconds-26of
Laravel's `whereDate('created_at', $day)` feels clean, but it secretly wraps the column in `DATE()` which kills the index on big tables.
Swap it for a `>= startOfDay()` / `< next day` range and MySQL can use the index again. Same trap hits `whereMonth`, `whereYear`, `whereDay` if the column is inside a function, assume the index is gone.
dev.to/tegos/laravel-wheredate-silently-kills-your-index-2lnf
`$fillable` doesn't know if it's the admin panel or the customer API calling `Order::create()` - so fields like `is_forced_processing` or `is_from_api` are equally "allowed" for everyone. This post explains why mass assignment breaks down in large Laravel projects and how the DTO + Action pattern fixes it.
dev.to/tegos/fillable-has-no-context-why-mass-assignment-breaks-down-at-scale-3lmj
Ever stared at a 50k row export and thought "are my enums slowing this down?"
I did. So I rewrote the whole thing to use pre-cached arrays instead of tryFrom() on every row, moved JSON decoding to raw SQL, and benchmarked both versions carefully.
Result? 16ms difference. Literally noise.
Turns out PHP 8.1 enums are singletons - same instance every time, no allocations, no GC pressure. Your real bottleneck is I/O and formatting, not enums.
Use tryFrom(), this is fine.
dev.to/tegos/php-enums-are-not-your-bottleneck-heres-proof-1887
