May 23, 2026 · 1 min read

Hello, World

Kicking off the new portfolio with a fresh Laravel 13 stack — here is what is on deck.

This is the first post on the new site. It is rendered straight from a Markdown file in resources/content/posts/, with YAML frontmatter at the top.

What changed

  • Fresh Laravel 13 install
  • Vite + Tailwind v4 instead of Mix + Tailwind v3
  • Markdown-driven blog (no admin UI required)
  • Multilingual (EN / DE / TR)
  • Privacy-friendly analytics by default, GA4 + Clarity gated behind cookie consent

Why

The previous site was a SmartAdmin starter with a single landing page glued on top. Most of the framework weight was unused. Time for a lean rewrite.

Run php artisan blog:sync to refresh post rows from the markdown sources.

#laravel #intro