Author Archives: ronaldpringadi

The Null Coalescing Operator: A Small PHP Feature That Quietly Changed Everything

Posted on April 22, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

If you’ve been writing PHP for a while, you probably remember the days of nested „isset()” checks cluttering up every template and controller. Since PHP 7, there’s a much cleaner way — and if you haven’t fully embraced it yet, … Continue reading →

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Did You Know? Python’s Walrus Operator Can Make Your Code Cleaner

Posted on April 22, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Did you know? Since Python 3.8, you can use the walrus operator ( := ) to assign a value to a variable as part of an expression. It’s a small piece of syntax that can meaningfully tidy up loops and … Continue reading →

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Did You Know? Python Dictionaries Preserve Insertion Order

Posted on April 22, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Did you know? Since Python 3.7, the built-in 1dict type officially preserves the order in which keys are inserted. Before that, if you needed ordering guarantees you had to reach for 1collections.OrderedDict . Today, a plain dictionary is enough for … Continue reading →

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BOLA in a Laravel Livewire app: when client-side state is the only thing standing between users and admin actions

Posted on November 26, 2025 by ronaldpringadi

A penetration test landed an interesting finding on a Livewire-powered admin panel I work on. The summary on the report read: Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA). A standard user can change a tenant-wide “who can access these assets” setting by replaying … Continue reading →

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Azure AD, Google Directory, and SCIM: picking a user-sync story for a multi-tenant Laravel app

Posted on December 5, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Late 2024 I spent a few weeks digging into how a multi-tenant Laravel platform I was working on should let tenant administrators pull users in from external identity providers. The customer asks were predictable — “we use Azure,” “we use … Continue reading →

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Free Azure AD SCIM provisioning to a Laravel app on your laptop, via home router + dynamic DNS

Posted on November 22, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

In the last post I sketched why SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) won out over direct Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Google Directory integrations for a multi-tenant Laravel app I was working on. This one is the hands-on … Continue reading →

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Laravel Jobs, Queues, Batches, and Redis: A Field Guide

Posted on June 15, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel’s queue system is one of those features you can use for years without really understanding what’s happening underneath. You call SomeJob::dispatch(), a worker somewhere picks it up, and life goes on. But the moment a job mysteriously runs twice, … Continue reading →

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Laravel Sail: a developer’s cheat sheet 🐳

Posted on September 25, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel ships with Sail — a thin command-line wrapper around docker compose that gives you the whole Laravel toolchain (PHP, MySQL, Redis, Mailpit, Node) in containers, without you needing to install any of them on your host. The only thing … Continue reading →

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The Core AWS Stack vs Lightsail: When Building Blocks Beat the Bundle

Posted on March 14, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives you a Lego bin the size of a warehouse. Powerful, but overwhelming when you just want a website online. Before you can decide whether the full stack is worth the complexity, it helps to know … Continue reading →

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GraphQL for Java Developers: What You Actually Need to Know

Posted on August 12, 2022 by ronaldpringadi

GraphQL has been on the Java back-end radar for a while, mostly as something the front-end team kept bringing up. In 2022 that shifted. Spring for GraphQL 1.0 became generally available in May. The official Spring team now provides first-party … Continue reading →

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