Hacker News: danielpetrica

New comment by danielpetrica in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

danielpetrica — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:14:13 +0000

Sounds like a unified directory of domain with lower security that attackers can target to me. not sure the domain for self hosting is such a great idea.

New comment by danielpetrica in "[dead]"

danielpetrica — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:14:19 +0000

The short version: Someone exploited an outdated Livewire version on a dormant side project of mine. They stole my .env file, used the Mailcoach API keys to send 50,000 spam emails, and I spent a panicked night tearing through every project I own trying to find the source.

The Ecosystem Security Team at the PHP Foundation

danielpetrica — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:47:30 +0000

Article URL: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/05/18/announcing-ecosystem-security-team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191655

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by danielpetrica in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

danielpetrica — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:56:02 +0000

I run it for my apps with traefik in front and is awesome. you can easily add services, DBs, backups and more and using the bin mounts you can migrate in painless way.

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danielpetrica — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:34:25 +0000

At the end of November, I shared a questionnaire to discover what the community thinks about the state of Laravel packages today.

I wanted to focus on the real-world pain points developers face.

To ensure I got busy developers to respond, I kept it short, under 3 minutes on average.

Without an established audience, I managed to reach around 200 responses.

This article illustrates what the community had to say.

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danielpetrica — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:07:03 +0000

If you are building high-performance Laravel applications, you are likely already exploring the limits of what's possible with FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane. In my previous work designing a production-ready Laravel architecture with Traefik and FrankenPHP, I promoted this stack for its simplicity and raw power.

However, bleeding-edge tech often comes with bleeding-edge problems. Recently, I lost three hours debugging an issue that should have been obvious: The FrankenPHP binary installed by Laravel Octane is version-locked.

In my case, it was locked to PHP 8.4, despite my system running the latest stable PHP 8.5. If you are trying to upgrade your stack or build a high-performance directory like I did for LaraPlugins.io, you need your environment to match your expectations.

Here is how to force FrankenPHP to use PHP 8.5 and stop chasing ghost bugs.

New comment by danielpetrica in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

danielpetrica — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:58:23 +0000

As someone who built a standard shortener (coz.jp), this is hilarious. I spent so much time trying to make links look trustworthy; doing the exact opposite is a surprisingly fun concept.

New comment by danielpetrica in "Show HN: TierWise – PPP pricing widget for SaaS (Built in 7 days)"

danielpetrica — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:03:27 +0000

Nice project, I love the laravel stack. but why did you use the laravel 11 version if i may ask?

New comment by danielpetrica in "Show HN: Hackernewsd v3 – Automate monitoring topics on Hacker News and Lobsters"

danielpetrica — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:02:20 +0000

upvote for the laravel topic

New comment by danielpetrica in "[dead]"

danielpetrica — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:39:11 +0000

Launching Laraplugins.io

Hello artisans!

I'm excited to launch Laraplugins.io, a Laravel-built directory that helps you discover healthy, maintained plugins faster.

The platform features automated health scores for each plugin, so you can quickly assess quality and make confident decisions without spending hours researching. Check it out the launching page here

New comment by danielpetrica in "Show HN: I built a health score for 1,800 Laravel packages"

danielpetrica — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:42:06 +0000

Also I should also mention that the site also expose this health data as Readme embeds for developers to use in their projects

Show HN: I built a health score for 1,800 Laravel packages

danielpetrica — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:24:09 +0000

Hi HN,

I'm Daniel, a solo dev from Italy. I built LaraPlugins.io to solve a specific pain point I kept hitting: finding a Laravel package, installing it, and only realizing weeks later that it was abandoned or incompatible with the latest PHP version.

It’s a directory that assigns an automated "Health Score" to packages based on maintenance, testing, and community signals (not just popularity).

The Stack:

    Backend: Laravel running on Octane (FrankenPhp) for high performance.

    Admin: Filament PHP (which has been a joy to work with).

    Queues: Heavy use of Redis queues to ingest stats from Packagist/GitHub in the background and also for the heavy cache usage i applied. 

    Cloudflare: Everything is cached in cloudflare after the first load so even big traffic should not impact the server machine directly. 

    Workers: Managed via Laravel Horizon running in a single Docker container.

    Frontend: Blade templates + Tailwind CSS.

The hardest part was tuning the scoring algorithm to not penalize "finished" stable packages while correctly flagging abandoned ones. I'm still tweaking the weights, so I'd love to hear if the score for your favorite package feels accurate or off.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541313

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by danielpetrica in "Open Source as a Way of Giving Back: The Artisan of the Day Is Daniel Petrica"

danielpetrica — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:21:37 +0000

Honored to be featured by Laravel as artisan of the day

Open Source as a Way of Giving Back: The Artisan of the Day Is Daniel Petrica

danielpetrica — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:18:34 +0000

Article URL: https://laravel.com/blog/open-source-as-a-way-of-giving-back-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-daniel-petrica

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353894

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danielpetrica in "Ask HN: Loocking for advice new product: Fast link shortener"

danielpetrica — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:36:00 +0000

I’ve built COZ.JP, and I’m now looking to promote it. However, I’ll admit, I’m not great at marketing or promoting. Could you please share some advice on how to effectively market my product? Any tips, personal experiences, or even harsh realities I should prepare for would be incredibly helpful! Thank you in advance for your help.

New comment by danielpetrica in "Ask HN: Loocking for advice new product: Fast link shortener"

danielpetrica — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:35:02 +0000

Thank you for any advice you may share with me

Ask HN: Loocking for advice new product: Fast link shortener

danielpetrica — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://coz.jp/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871025

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by danielpetrica in "[dead]"

danielpetrica — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:33:50 +0000

Between Japanese lessons and a lot of coffee, I'm happy to launch API beta support for Coz.jp! To make automation easy, I've also built an n8n node and a Laravel plugin.

New comment by danielpetrica in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

danielpetrica — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:46:59 +0000

I'm speacking of the self hosted version you can install on your own vps not the managwment version. I don't like using managed services if possible.

New comment by danielpetrica in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

danielpetrica — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:53:05 +0000

In this moments I think devs should invest in vendor independence if they can. While I'm not to that stage yet (cloudlfare dependence) using open technologies like docker (or Kubernetes), Traefik instead of managed services can help in this disaster situations by switching to a different provider in a faster way than having to rebuild from zero. as a disclosure I'm not still to that point on my infrastructure But I'm trying to slowly define one for my self