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07/09/2026

Project setup is often the first decision made in a new application, shaping configuration, permissions, and database access before any feature work begins.

📘 From initial installation to a running Laravel 13 application ready for development.

Laravel is a PHP framework built around the Model View Controller pattern, designed to make web development more organized and less repetitive. It ...

31/08/2026

💡 A photoresistor is a small disc with two legs, and it lets an Arduino notice when the lights go out. Its resistance drops as light hits it, which is enough for a board to separate day from night.

This is where a board stops reacting only to buttons and starts reacting to what surrounds it. The article covers the wiring, the calibration and the working code behind that step, along with the reasons the same sensor reports different values in different places and how to set the switching point accordingly.

🔗 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/292/reading-light-levels-with-an-ldr-and-arduino

A light dependent resistor is a component that changes its electrical resistance according to how much light falls on it. Bright light makes it con...

24/08/2026

📦 Every PHP project pulls dozens of packages from Packagist. Far fewer developers publish one.

The article covers the complete path with a working example, from naming the package and structuring the repository to writing the manifest and getting it listed.

Local testing gets the same attention, so the package is verified end to end before it reaches anyone else.

👉 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/291/how-to-create-a-composer-package-from-scratch

A helper class, a small client wrapper or a set of validation rules often starts in one project and ends up copied into the next one. From that poi...

17/08/2026

The HC-06 is one of the simplest ways to add Bluetooth to an Arduino project. It behaves like a wireless serial cable, so the same code that talks over USB works unchanged over the air. Getting there takes a few resistors, a handful of configuration commands, and an understanding of how the module handles connections.

Adding wireless communication to an Arduino project usually starts with a Bluetooth serial module, and the HC-06 is one of the most common choices....

10/08/2026

🖼️ Images are usually the largest thing a browser has to download, and the techniques for handling them well are settled and widely documented. What tends to be missing is a clear view of how the pieces fit together.

Format selection, compression, sizing, request timing and caching each solve a different part of the problem, and none of them replaces the others. The article covers what each one does and when it applies.

👉 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/289/image-optimization-for-the-web

Images are almost always the heaviest thing on a web page. A single hero photo can weigh more than all the HTML, CSS and JavaScript of a site put t...

03/08/2026

Search rankings depend on more than content quality. The underlying structure of a website plays a role in how it performs, and small details, easy to overlook during development or redesigns, can quietly hold a page back in search results. A closer look at what search engines expect from every website, and why these fundamentals are worth revisiting.

📖 https://www.hibit.dev/posts/288/seo-guidelines-every-website-should-follow

Search engine optimization has a reputation for being complicated, but a big part of it comes down to fundamentals. Search engines crawl millions o...

16/07/2026

🔌 Connecting two Arduino boards opens the door to projects that reach past what a single board can do on its own. Serial communication is one of the most approachable ways to get there, turning a pair of boards into parts of the same system that pass information back and forth.

Getting two Arduino boards to talk to each other opens up projects that a single board can't handle on its own. You might have one board reading se...

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...

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