Monthly Archives: May 2026

Three Years of the AI Boom: The Stocks That Ran

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

A short personal note on the 2023-2026 AI boom and the handful of companies whose stocks went vertical: NVIDIA, Palantir, Broadcom, TSMC, AMD, Microsoft, Meta. Continue reading →

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Reading Laravel Config From a Queued Job — and the env() Trap That Bites You in Production

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Today’s lesson came from a perfectly innocent-looking change in a Laravel app. We had a magic number — a chunk size — sprinkled across three call sites: 123foreach (array_chunk($userIds, 100) as $chunk) {     SendOnboardingEmailJob::dispatch($chunk); } One reviewer flagged … Continue reading →

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When the third-party PPA goes down: replacing a Dockerfile with a pre-built image on Docker Hub

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Three days, three CI failures, all rooted in the same place: the Dockerfile our build runs from rebuilds the world from scratch every single CI run, and every external source it touches is somebody else’s reliability problem. Here’s what that … Continue reading →

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When a Composer package vanishes from GitHub: don’t panic, and don’t delete vendor/

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Today our CI/CD pipeline went red on a job that hadn’t been touched in months. The .gitlab-ci.yml was untouched. The branch built fine yesterday. composer install exploded. The relevant chunk of the failure log: 12345678Failed to download acme/some-nova-tool from dist: … Continue reading →

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Local HTTPS in 5 minutes with Caddy 🔒

Posted on May 4, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

I used to dread setting up https for local development. Self-signed certs got the browser to scream. Editing nginx.conf for two hostnames felt like building a cathedral. Caddy changed all that for me — it’s a tiny single-binary web server … Continue reading →

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