Hello, world. Yes, another developer blog.

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

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Most developer blogs read like a LinkedIn post had a baby with a Medium article. This one won't. I'm Anass. I ship Laravel + Shopify + AI for a living, and this is where I take notes out loud.

Why now

I've spent 10+ years remote, mostly head-down in client codebases. The patterns I keep reaching for — Laravel Octane at scale, RAG done right, agentic commerce — don't show up in tutorials. So I'm writing them down.

Strong opinions, loosely held. Code that runs in production.

What you'll find here

Laravel internals you actually use day-to-day
AI engineering with Anthropic Claude + MCP
Shopify Plus app patterns
Architecture & DevOps lessons learned the hard way

Subscribe via [RSS](/rss.xml) — no newsletter, no popup, no LinkedIn dance.

A small comparison

Example code

Every post that needs code gets the syntax treatment:

<CodeBlock code={use Prism\\Prism\\Prism;\n\n$response = Prism::text()\n ->using('anthropic', 'claude-opus-4-7')\n ->withSystemPrompt('You are a senior Laravel engineer.')\n ->withPrompt('Refactor this controller for clarity.')\n ->asText();} lang="php" filename="app/Actions/AskClaude.php" />

That's it. First post live. More incoming.

Anass Ez-zouaine — Senior Backend Engineer · Software Architect · AI Engineer — Career

Hello, world. Yes, another developer blog.

Why now

What you'll find here

A small comparison

Example code