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Filament Atelier
16 Aug to 13 Sep 2026
A visual page builder for Laravel, shipped as a Filament plugin. Developers define blocks in code, clients arrange them and watch the real page update as they type.
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GitBasedDocs
10 Sep to 13 Sep 2026
A private docs site that reads Markdown from one GitHub repo. Write in Obsidian, push, and a few seconds later the pages are live for the people you shared them with. Each project is a folder in the repo, and a reader sees only the projects an admin linked to their account. Anyone else gets the same 404 as a project that does not exist. A webhook starts a delta sync that fetches only changed files, a timed recheck covers a missing webhook, and pages are served from SQLite, so reading never calls GitHub. It renders the Markdown Obsidian and GitHub both know: Shiki code, Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math and Obsidian callouts, plus wikilinks and image embeds. Next.js 16, React 19, next-auth v4 and Drizzle on SQLite, about 9,200 lines of TypeScript, MIT.
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MD Kanban
6 Sep to 10 Sep 2026
A kanban board where every card is a markdown file on your disk, built so you can watch what an AI coding agent is doing without asking it. Each connected folder is a project, each subfolder groups work, and each task is one `.md` file whose YAML frontmatter holds status, priority, assignee, due date and labels. Dragging a card between columns rewrites the file, and the agent edits the same files from its side. That is the whole design: Jira and Linear keep state behind an API, so an agent needs credentials and a connector before it can move a card, while a folder is something it can already write to. The repo ships the contract twice, as `AGENTS.md` for any agent and as a Claude skill, and tracks its own remaining build as task files inside itself. Vue 3, Vite, TypeScript and Tailwind v4 over the browser File System Access API, about 1,800 lines, MIT.
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#89 10:07
Filament Atelier Part 27 of 28Reading my own release checklist found two bugs I had written down and walked past
The gate list for 1.0.0 had eight items under "bugs the audit turned up". Two of them were not tidying: the home page had two URLs with the canonical naming the copy, and any URL typed in the panel went into an href without a scheme check. Both were an hour, and both were about to be frozen behind a version number.
Laravel · FilamentPHP · Plugin · Tools · Web Application · SEO
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#83 08:35
Filament Atelier Part 21 of 28A generated /services page shadowed a 301 I shipped three releases ago
A page type can serve a listing at its own prefix without anyone building a page. That route has to sit ahead of the catch-all to exist at all, which means it sits ahead of everything the catch-all was handling. The test suite failed on a redirect written in v0.2.0, and it was right to.
Laravel · FilamentPHP · Plugin · Tools · Web Application · SEO
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#47 19:48
Filament Atelier Part 12 of 28Building a demo blog route found a bug older than the feature
v0.3.0 adds structured data: a JSON-LD graph on every page from three sources. While proving that a host app's own blog route could share it, the route 404d. Atelier's catch-all had been registered ahead of every route the application defines, since the first release, and the docs promised the opposite.
Laravel · FilamentPHP · Plugin · Tools · Web Application · SEO · Blade
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#45 19:46
Filament Atelier Part 10 of 28The sitemap was not broken, it just looked it
A sitemap opened in a browser as a wall of unlabelled URLs and timestamps in a serif font. The XML was valid, correctly typed and parsed cleanly. What was missing is the thing every serious sitemap ships and mine did not, and the fix is one processing instruction crawlers ignore entirely.
Laravel · FilamentPHP · Plugin · Tools · Web Application · SEO · UX
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#44 19:42
Filament Atelier Part 9 of 28Renaming a page quietly 404s every link to it
Of everything on the SEO list, one item was not a missing feature but active damage: a client renames a page that ranks and every inbound link dies, silently and permanently. That got built first. Then a sitemap I wrote rather than installed, and a robots.txt that a file on disk quietly beats.
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#43 19:41
Filament Atelier Part 8 of 28The config invited you to delete your own head tags
A social share image was not showing up. The render path turned out to be correct and the tag was never reaching the page, because the layout had been replaced. Every meta tag lived inside Atelier's own layout view, and a config key openly invited you to swap that view out.
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