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Techie Mike

Techie Mike

Computer Science teacher in Thailand. 10+ years Cambridge IGCSE, 4 years AS/A Level. BSc Computer Science & Engineering. Ex-Intel, Virgin Media. Practical exam prep, past paper walkthroughs and tech tutorials.
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Techie Mike
How to Add Chatify to Your Laravel 11 App
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Laravel • 7 min read
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How to Add Chatify to Your Laravel 11 App

# How to Add Chatify to Your Existing Laravel App (Laravel 11 Guide) Adding a real-time messaging system to an existing Laravel app used to mean building everything from scratch — WebSocket server, message models, notification badges, typing indicators, the works. Then I found Chatify, a Laravel pa…
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Real-Time Chat App with Laravel Livewire & Pusher
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Laravel • 8 min read
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Real-Time Chat App with Laravel Livewire & Pusher

# Building a Real-Time Chat App with Laravel Livewire and Pusher Real-time features used to mean wrestling with WebSocket servers, running a separate Node process, or paying for hosted infrastructure that was overkill for small apps. But Laravel Livewire combined with Pusher changes the game — you…
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Turn Android into a Hacking Device — No Root Needed
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Ethical-Hacking • 5 min read
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Turn Android into a Hacking Device — No Root Needed

# Turn Your Android Phone into a Hacking Device Without Rooting Imagine pulling out your phone, opening a terminal, and running the same penetration testing tools that security professionals use on their laptops. No laptop, no bulky setup — just your Android phone and a few apps. You might think y…
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Laravel on Windows — Laragon, Composer & Git Bash Setup
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Laravel on Windows — Laragon, Composer & Git Bash Setup

# Laravel Development on Windows: Laragon Setup, Composer & Git Bash If you've tried setting up a Laravel development environment on Windows, you know the pain. WampServer? XAMPP? Manually configuring Apache, PHP, and MySQL? It works, but it's fiddly and every project ends up needing slightly diffe…
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Laravel with AdminLTE & Multi-Auth — Laravel 11 Guide
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Laravel with AdminLTE & Multi-Auth — Laravel 11 Guide

# Setting Up Laravel with AdminLTE and Multi-Auth (Laravel 11 Guide) If you're building an admin panel in Laravel, you've probably heard about AdminLTE — it's one of the most popular admin dashboard templates out there. Combine it with multi-authentication (separate dashboards for admins and regula…
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Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond
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Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond

# Proxmox Homelab: Setup on a Mini PC, Ubuntu VMs & Beyond If you've ever wanted to run multiple operating systems and services on a single machine without the overhead of a full VMware setup, Proxmox is where it's at. It's an open-source virtualization platform that's powerful enough for productio…
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Why use indentation in Python
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Python • 2 min read
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Why use indentation in Python

Indentation is an important concept to understand in Python, if you are not indenting your Python code properly, you will end up getting the Indent.…
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Steganography: How to Hide Data Using Kali Linux
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Steganography: How to Hide Data Using Kali Linux

# Steganography: How to Hide Data Using Kali Linux Encryption is great, but it's obvious. When someone sees a blob of ciphertext, they know you're hiding something — they just don't know what. Steganography takes a different approach: hide the message so well that nobody even knows it's there. The…
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PowerShell for Windows — Essential Commands & Automation
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PowerShell for Windows — Essential Commands & Automation

# PowerShell for Windows: Essential Commands, App Management & Automation PowerShell is hands-down one of the most useful tools Microsoft has ever built for Windows. It's not just a replacement for the old DOS command prompt — it's a full task automation and configuration management framework built…
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