What’s It Actually Like Building a Football Club Manager With Codex?
Building a football club manager with Codex is fast and productive, but keeping it inside a deliberately simple PHP architecture takes active work.
Modern tools. Old-stack common sense.
Building a football club manager with Codex is fast and productive, but keeping it inside a deliberately simple PHP architecture takes active work.
A plain-English explainer of web application development: web apps, websites, databases, workflows, WordPress, custom apps, tools, and testing.
A practical old-stack-friendly guide to building a web app: workflow, database, forms, permissions, admin pages, emails, logs, backups, and testing.
A plain-English guide to the LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL or MariaDB, and PHP, including what it runs and when it still makes sense.
Old stack means practical, mature web tools that are easy to host, debug, maintain, and explain to AI coding assistants.
AI-assisted development adds a new cost to tech choices: how much context, correction, and retrying your stack needs before it works.
Week 4 of EVE Profit Routes adds navigation, About, How-To, and update pages so the app can explain itself, build trust, and feel more complete.
I rebuilt Automation Receipts around Tabler so every new page didn’t become another custom CSS decision, while keeping the PHP/MySQL app simple.
A webhook is easy. The harder part is turning automation runs into readable receipts so someone can understand what happened without digging through old logs.
Week 3 of EVE Profit Routes improves the route controls, adding sortable tables, clearer filters, and UI changes that make hauling decisions easier.