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Designing Reports and Dashboards Managers Actually Use

16 Jul 2026Category : Blog
Designing Reports and Dashboards Managers Actually Use

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The beautiful dashboard nobody opens, and the spreadsheet everyone does. The principles I follow when building reports for Kate PMS and Kate HRM: start with decisions, define every number, allow exports, keep queries fast.

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Laravel Pint, PHPStan and Rector: Automatic Code Quality Without the Arguments

Laravel Pint, PHPStan and Rector: Automatic Code Quality Without the Arguments

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Too much code review goes on missing spaces, unused imports and possible nulls. Pint, PHPStan with Larastan and Rector catch all of that automatically. Here's the setup, the baseline trick and the CI job.

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Rate Limits, Quotas and Backoff: Calling Third-Party APIs Without Getting Blocked

Rate Limits, Quotas and Backoff: Calling Third-Party APIs Without Getting Blocked

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A 429 is an API politely asking you to slow down, and most code answers by retrying harder. Here's how to handle rate limits properly: Retry-After, exponential backoff with jitter, queues and a circuit breaker.

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Building a REST API in Laravel 12 With OpenAPI Docs That Stay Accurate

Building a REST API in Laravel 12 With OpenAPI Docs That Stay Accurate

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An API without docs gets used wrongly; an API with outdated docs is worse. Here's a step-by-step Laravel 12 REST API with routes, Form Requests and Resources, plus two ways to generate OpenAPI docs that keep up with the code.

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WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Polling: Choosing Real-Time Without Regret

WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events vs Polling: Choosing Real-Time Without Regret

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Not every live feature needs WebSockets. Polling, long polling, Server-Sent Events and WebSockets each fit a different job. Here's how they work, what they cost to run, and a simple way to choose.

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Laravel Testing With Fakes: Mail, Queue, Http, Storage and Notifications

Laravel Testing With Fakes: Mail, Queue, Http, Storage and Notifications

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Your test suite shouldn't send real emails, hit a real payment API or fill a real S3 bucket. Laravel's fakes swap all of that out in one line. Here's how each one works, and the gotchas that make tests pass for the wrong reason.

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01. About Shiroz

Mohammed Shiroz

Hi, I'm Mohammed Shiroz, a software engineer and AI enthusiast from Sri Lanka who turns ideas into intelligent, real-world solutions. With over 9 years of hands-on experience, I currently lead real estate ERP development at Kate Group, a...

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