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08/06/2026

Bluetooth modules are still one of the most straightforward ways to get an Arduino talking wirelessly. This article covers the full setup, from hardware wiring and voltage considerations to AT command configuration and data exchange over a serial link.

🔗 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/286/getting-started-with-the-hc-05-bluetooth-module

The HC-05 is one of the most popular Bluetooth modules in the Arduino ecosystem, and for good reason. It's affordable, well documented, and flexibl...

25/05/2026

🗂 File uploads are a standard feature in most web applications, but getting them right involves more than wiring up a form field. Understanding how Laravel handles storage drivers, file validation, and access control makes the difference between a feature that works and one that holds up under real conditions.

🔗 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/285/handling-file-uploads-in-laravel-13

Handling file uploads is one of those things that sounds simple at first but has plenty of moving parts: storage drivers, validation, security, pub...

11/05/2026

🪝 Enforcing code quality standards across a team is one of those challenges that compounds over time. Git hooks offer a native, lightweight way to automate that process at the commit level, keeping the entire workflow consistent without adding complexity to the stack.

🔗 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/283/keep-your-codebase-clean-with-git-hooks

Every developer has been there: you push a commit, CI fails, and it turns out there was a linting error, a forgotten debug statement, or a test tha...

04/05/2026

🔋 Building a battery-powered Arduino project? By default, the board runs at full power continuously, draining batteries in days.

⚡ Low power sleep modes change that completely, stretching battery life to months. Everything needed to understand, implement, and make the right design decisions around low power on ATmega-based boards.

👉 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/282/low-power-consumption-mode-in-arduino

Battery-powered Arduino projects have one common enemy: a board that drains power even when it has nothing to do. By default, Arduino runs at full ...

27/04/2026

Laravel's authentication system goes far beyond the defaults. Guards, providers and drivers are independently configurable, making it straightforward to integrate any user source into the framework.

Full breakdown: auth architecture, custom provider driver, service provider registration and protected routes.

🔗 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/281/custom-authentication-in-laravel

Laravel ships with a solid authentication system out of the box, and most projects are well served by it. But there are situations where you need t...

30/03/2026

Software estimation is one of those topics that every development team deals with, yet it rarely gets the attention it deserves.

How do you measure complexity? How do you plan a sprint without overpromising? How do you know if your team is improving over time?

Story points are at the center of all of it. If you want to understand how they work and how to use them well, this article is a good place to start.

https://www.hibit.dev/posts/280/story-points-in-agile-teams

Story points are one of those concepts that sound simple on paper but can cause a surprising amount of confusion, debate, and occasionally heated a...

23/03/2026

Learn the essentials of Arduino in one practical guide, including how to choose the right board for your projects, understand basic electronic components like resistors and transistors, and prototype circuits using breadboards and Dupont wires.

The guide also explains how Arduino code works, how sketches are structured, and how to interact with your board using the IDE, Serial Monitor, and Serial Plotter, making it easier to start building projects and experimenting with electronics.

https://www.hibit.dev/posts/278/getting-started-with-arduino

Arduino is a small programmable board that lets you control real electronic components with code. You can connect sensors, buttons, motors, LEDs, d...

16/03/2026

Every Claude Code session starts from zero. No memory of your stack, your conventions, or how your team works.

Skills are the answer. Write your workflow once in a Markdown file and Claude picks it up automatically, every session, for everyone on the team.

A complete guide covering what Skills are, how they load, how to structure them, when to build one, and the patterns that make a real difference in practice.

Claude Code is already capable of doing a lot. But out of the box, it has no idea how you work. It doesn't know your stack, your standards, or what...

09/03/2026

Most developers generate image variants at upload time. There's a cleaner way.

Nginx has a built-in image filter module that handles resizing on demand, paired with server-side caching so each transformation only happens once. The result is a simple URL-based API that works for any size you need, without touching your application code.

Full step-by-step guide covering everything from enabling the module to configuring the cache: https://bit.ly/3N7casE

If you've ever managed a web server that serves images to thousands of users, you've probably run into the problem of serving the right image size ...

02/03/2026

Upgrading to PHP 8.5 on Linux with Nginx doesn’t have to be messy.

This guide shows how to remove old PHP versions, install PHP 8.5 with FPM, manage extensions, and configure Nginx correctly.

Step by step, practical commands for a clean, production-ready setup.

Running modern PHP applications on a stable stack is a basic requirement for most IT and development environments. Pairing PHP 8.5 with Nginx gives...

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