We all love Laravel Forge. It makes things so, so easy. That being said, when using AWS as your host sometimes AWS permissions can be a bit funny. Specifically, you need a unique IAM user for Forge so you can assign permission policies. IAM is Amazon’s way of allowing different…

Laravel Homestead is now out, and I love using it for my Vagrant environment. That being said, sometimes configuration of third-party tools like Sequel Pro can be a bit funny. Connecting Sequel Pro to Laravel Homestead is pretty easy. The @laravelphp Twitter account posted a tweet on May 16, 2014 that outlined how to do this by default, but sometimes tweets are hard to find, so I wanted to put it in plain text and post the image here as well so it can be Googl-ified.