Ashiq S — Laravel & WordPress Developer Blog, Dubai

Jun 7, 2026 · 6 min read

Building an HRMS with Laravel & Filament

How I built a self-hosted HR Management System with Laravel, Filament, and Livewire — employee records, attendance, leave approvals, and role-based access.

Laravel Filament Livewire HRMS

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Jun 6, 2026 · 6 min read

Building an E-commerce Store with Laravel

How I built a full-featured online store with Laravel and Livewire — product catalog, cart, secure checkout, multi-currency pricing, and an admin dashboard.

Laravel Livewire E-commerce Tailwind CSS

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Jun 5, 2026 · 6 min read

Self-Hosting on a Raspberry Pi with Docker

How I run a multi-service home lab on a Raspberry Pi 5 — Docker, Cloudflare Tunnel, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and self-hosted Laravel apps on Ubuntu Server.

Docker Linux Raspberry Pi Self-Hosting Cloudflare

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Jul 20, 2026 · 7 min read

Does AR Actually Teach Geometry Better? Evaluating Geo+ with 96 Pupils

Part three of my AR-in-education seminar series — the study design, statistics, and honest limitations behind Geo+'s evaluation: pre/post tests, NASA-TLX workload scores, and the User Engagement Scale.

Augmented Reality EdTech UX Research Statistics

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Jul 19, 2026 · 7 min read

Building Geo+: An AR App Architecture for Teaching Solid Geometry

Part two of my AR-in-education seminar series — how the Geo+ app (reviewed from Rossano and Lanzilotti's research) uses Unity and Vuforia to turn a printed marker into an interactive 3D geometric solid.

Augmented Reality Unity Vuforia EdTech Architecture

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Jul 18, 2026 · 6 min read

Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality for Learning

What I studied for my M.Tech seminar on AR in education: the pedagogical difference between AR and VR, and why overlaying the real world beats replacing it for teaching young children geometry.

Augmented Reality EdTech UX Education

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Jul 17, 2026 · 8 min read

Defeating Power Analysis with Threshold Implementation

Part two of my lightweight cryptography seminar — how differential power analysis pulls secret keys out of a chip without breaking any math, and how threshold implementation masking defends the Piccolo cipher against it.

Cryptography Side-Channel Attacks DPA RFID Security

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Jul 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Lightweight Cryptography for RFID Tags

M.Tech seminar on securing RFID/IoT tags: why standard ciphers don't fit passive hardware, and how the Piccolo cipher fits in under 700 logic gates.

Cryptography RFID IoT Security Embedded

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Jul 15, 2026 · 8 min read

Inside the LoRaWAN Protocol: Classes & Frames

Part two of my smart parking series — LoRaWAN standard: gateway architecture, device classes A/B/C, frame design, and why nodes run for years on one battery.

LoRaWAN LoRa IoT Protocols Networking

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Jul 14, 2026 · 6 min read

A LoRaWAN Smart Parking System That Skips WiFi at Every Lot

My M.Tech mini-project: ultrasonic sensors and ESP32 LoRa boards report parking-slot occupancy to a receiver bridging to IBM Watson IoT — no WiFi per lot.

LoRa LoRaWAN IoT ESP32 Smart Parking

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Jul 13, 2026 · 5 min read

From IoT Sensor to Emergency Web Portal

Part three of my Accident Aid series — the Java and MySQL portal where hospitals and police received live accident alerts with GPS on a map.

Java MySQL GPS Full Stack IoT

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Jul 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Crash Detection with Arduino and a Vibration Sensor

The hardware side of my Accident Aid project — reading a piezo vibration sensor with Arduino, filtering noise, and sending SMS alerts via GSM AT commands.

Arduino Sensors GSM Embedded IoT

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Jul 11, 2026 · 5 min read

Accident Aid: Building an IoT Accident Alert System

How I built Accident Aid, my B.Tech final-year project — an IoT system detecting vehicle crashes and alerting family, hospitals, and police with GPS.

IoT Arduino GSM GPS Embedded

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Jul 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Simulating City Traffic with Pygame

Part four of my smart traffic series — a 4-way intersection simulator built in Pygame to prove the adaptive signal system beats fixed timers.

Python Pygame Simulation Testing

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Jul 9, 2026 · 5 min read

Designing an Adaptive Signal Switching Algorithm

Part three of my smart traffic series — turning vehicle counts into green signal times: the GST formula, starvation prevention, and yellow-light detection.

Algorithms Python Multithreading Computer Vision

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Jul 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Training YOLOv3 to Detect and Count Vehicles

Part two of my smart traffic series — a custom YOLOv3 vehicle detector: dataset annotation, config changes, OpenCV inference, NMS, and lessons on accuracy.

YOLOv3 Deep Learning OpenCV Python Computer Vision

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Jul 7, 2026 · 5 min read

Adaptive Traffic Signals with Computer Vision

Part one of my Smart Traffic Management series — how my M.Tech project used CCTV footage and YOLOv3 to measure traffic density and set signal times adaptively.

Computer Vision YOLOv3 Python Machine Learning IoT

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Jun 8, 2026 · 6 min read

Syncing WooCommerce and Shopify with Laravel

How I built a Laravel middleware to keep products, orders, and inventory in sync between WooCommerce and Shopify — architecture, webhooks, and lessons learned.

Laravel WooCommerce Shopify API Integration

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