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Shipped my first client project!

From community member to shipping a real e-commerce site for a local business. Here is the journey.

This week I stopped fighting Eloquent and started using it properly. Here is what finally clicked for me with hasOne, hasMany and...

PHP powers roughly 75% of all websites with a known server-side language, including Facebook and Wikipedia.

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Stack Overflow's annual survey consistently shows Git as the most-used developer tool worldwide.

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Laravel was created by Taylor Otwell in 2011 and is now the most popular PHP framework on GitHub by stars.

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There are over 700 programming languages in active use today; JavaScript remains the most commonly used for the 11th year running.

The first computer bug was an actual moth — found inside the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 by Grace Hopper's team.

MySQL, which powers this platform, was named after co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, My.

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The first 1GB hard drive (IBM 1956) weighed about 1 ton. Today a fingernail-sized microSD holds 1TB.

The first website ever (info.cern.ch, 1991) is still online today — restored by CERN in 2013.

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The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed for 1870s typewriters to prevent jamming — we still use it 150 years later.

Tailwind CSS was created by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger — first as a side project, now used by millions.

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