Short write‑ups of problems we hit running a real commerce operation and what we changed in the code because of them. No product announcements; just the reasoning.
A label sheet is designed in a browser and printed by mPDF — two renderers that share no code and must agree to the millimetre. Where they disagreed, what happened when a barcode library quietly accepted an invalid EAN13 and encoded a different number than the digits printed under it, why the PDF thumbnails are rendered on the client, and the one Blade character that cost an afternoon.