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Bringing the Laravel Herd Experience to Linux with “Lerd”
Coding Linux +2 more

Bringing the Laravel Herd Experience to Linux with “Lerd”

Laravel Herd is extremely powerful and easy to host and debug Laravel applications on MacOS and Windows. Has someone created the solution for Linux?

May 15, 2026 Read More →
How to Fix "Plugin 'auth_socket' is not loaded" in Laravel Herd MySQL
MySQL Laravel +1 more

How to Fix "Plugin 'auth_socket' is not loaded" in Laravel Herd MySQL

Opened my Work Laptop after shutting it down last night, to this error. Last thing I needed on a Tuesday morning. Let's run through how to fix it.

December 16, 2025 Read More →
Laravel Reverb on Cloudflare on Forge
Programming Laravel +2 more

Laravel Reverb on Cloudflare on Forge

A setup from hell, it seems nobody has bothered to test this, the good thing is I've tested it so you don't have too.

May 20, 2025 Read More →

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