Notes by Drashtant Nayak Laravel, MySQL, integrations and AI features https://drashtantnayak.ca/notes/ 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 Drashtant Nayakhttps://drashtantnayak.ca/ Making Laravel webhook handlers safe to receive twice https://drashtantnayak.ca/notes/idempotent-webhooks-laravel/ 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 Webhooks arrive late, out of order and more than once. A Laravel pattern: verify the signature, record the event ID, answer fast, do the work in a queue. Read the query plan before you add an index https://drashtantnayak.ca/notes/mysql-indexes-query-plan/ 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 How to use MySQL EXPLAIN to choose the right composite index, why column order matters, and what quietly stops an index from being used in Laravel apps. Adding AI to a Laravel app without making it a liability https://drashtantnayak.ca/notes/ai-features-laravel-guardrails/ 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 2026-10-22T22:00:00-06:00 Habits for shipping AI features in an existing Laravel app: small checkable jobs, validated output, queues, human review, logging and tests on real examples.