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Infrastructure

HoneypotPlus: my Laravel package to detect and ban malicious IPs

Detect bots scanning your Laravel applications on sensitive paths (.env, wp-admin, .git), ban them via Cloudflare and report them to AbuseIPDB. Discover HoneypotPlus, an event-driven, zero-configuration Laravel package.

Development

How Cloudflare MCP Helped Me Write GraphQL Queries

Discover how the Cloudflare MCP enabled me to navigate Cloudflare's GraphQL documentation and generate valid queries to retrieve my website statistics.

Development

Manage Cookie Consent Without a Paid CMP

How to handle cookie consent on a Laravel site without paying for a third-party CMP, using the whitecube/laravel-cookie-consent package.

Development

Laravel Packages (Spatie) I Discovered While Redoing ilogus.fr

Discover the Spatie packages that saved me a lot of time during the ilogus.fr redesign: Markdown, OG Image, and Sitemap.