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Building a Jeopardy Game for Laravel Live Denmark


A crazy idea that turned into a fun mashup of software and hardware...and all of it with Laravel

CategoryDifficultyQuestionAnswer404: Category Not Found1,000This HTTP status code means "I'm a teapot" and was an April Fool's jokeWhat is 418?Laracon Legends300These two Australian cities have hosted Laracon AUWhat are Sydney and Brisbane?Rød Grød Med Fløde500This Danish programmer created PHP in 1994 and was born in GreenlandWho is Rasmus Lerdorf?Breaking Prod1,000This phenomenon occurs when a popular cache key expires and multiple processes try to regenerate it simultaneouslyWhat is a cache stampede (or thundering herd)?Taylor's Version500Taylor's 2014 hit about relationships gone wrong also describes what PHP displays when you echo an uninitialized variableWhat is "Blank Space? One key lesson about working with LLMs on projects like this: as the codebase evolved and the initial clean structure degraded through rapid changes, I realized it would have been more efficient to simply update the PLAN.md file with new requirements and have Claude rebuild from scratch. Start with clear separation between game state, UI, and control logic Use a proper web server (nginx/Caddy) instead of artisan serve for any live event Test with multiple concurrent users early in development

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