# Tayyab Sabir

> Tayyab Sabir is a PHP developer from Chichawatni, Pakistan.
> He writes backend code, builds REST APIs, and works with Laravel. Open to
> backend roles and contract work on PHP Laravel projects.

## About

Tayyab Sabir is a PHP developer with professional experience on production
SaaS platforms and web applications. He worked as a Junior PHP Developer
at PHPTravels, contributing to their booking engine and a SaaS product,
and previously completed a paid PHP internship at CAT Marketing Systems,
working on a real estate CMS.

His work covers backend development, REST API development, database design,
and CMS and admin systems. He has built Evently in Laravel to learn the
framework properly — routing, middleware, controllers, APIs — and is
currently focused on Laravel architecture and the "why" behind framework
decisions.

The site is a personal portfolio and blog, not a résumé. It contains
long-form writing about his journey into programming, notes on specific
projects, and a collection of slash pages that don't fit anywhere else.

## Pages

### Main
- [Home](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/)
- [About](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/about)
- [Projects](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/projects)
- [Blog](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/blog)
- [Now](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/now)
- [Lab](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/lab)
- [Contact](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/contact)

### Slash pages
- [Slashes](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/slash) — index of all slash pages
- [Uses](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/uses) — hardware, software, and tools used
- [Defaults](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/defaults) — daily apps and tools
- [Links](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/links) — everywhere the author exists online
- [Been](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/been) — places the author has visited
- [Colophon](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/colophon) — how the site is built
- [AI](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/ai) — stance on AI-generated content
- [Stats](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/stats) — site visitor numbers (coming soon)

### Feeds and machine-readable
- [Sitemap](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/sitemap.xml) — full list of pages and posts
- [RSS feed](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/feed.xml) — subscribe to new posts
- [llms.txt](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/llms.txt) — this file

## Blog

Long-form posts about programming, learning, and the author's journey.
Written occasionally, updated rarely.

Selected posts:
- [How I got here — from village to Laravel](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/blog/how-i-got-here)
  From a small village called 51/12-L to building web applications.
- [How I switched to Linux](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/blog/how-i-switched-to-linux)
  A teacher, an old laptop, and why the author never went back to Windows.
- [My first programming project](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/blog/first-programming-project)
  A simple C++ program that estimated lifespan. It was terrible.

Full archive: https://tayyib.is-a.dev/blog

## Skills and tools

- **Languages:** PHP, JavaScript, C++ (past), SQL
- **Framework:** Laravel, vanilla PHP
- **Database:** MySQL
- **Frontend:** Bootstrap, vanilla JS
- **Tools:** Git, VS Code, Postman, Composer, GitHub Desktop
- **OS:** Ubuntu (primary), Linux
- **Editor of choice:** VS Code for local, Nano on the server

## Projects

### Personal
- **Evently** — an event booking platform built in Laravel to learn the framework
- **Hisaab** — an expense tracker built with Core PHP and MySQL

### Professional
- **PHPTravels SaaS** — multi-tenant SaaS backend, REST APIs, authentication, CMS
- **Booking Engine** — backend for a booking platform, API integrations
- **CMS & Customer Modules** — auth, CMS, API integration, feature updates
- **Hotline** — a real estate CMS for managing properties, expenses, and users

Full list: https://tayyib.is-a.dev/projects

## Contact

- **Email:** tayyabsabir72@gmail.com
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/tayyab1251
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayyab1251/
- **X / Twitter:** https://x.com/tayyab_1251
- **Website:** https://tayyib.is-a.dev/contact

## About this site

- **Stack:** PHP, MySQL, Apache, on a small VPS
- **Domain:** tayyib.is-a.dev — a free subdomain from is-a.dev
- **Fonts:** IBM Plex Mono and IBM Plex Sans, self-hosted
- **No analytics, no cookies, no newsletter.**
- **Visitor counter** is stored on the server, IPs are hashed.
- **Content is written by a human.** No AI-generated text on the site.
  See [/ai](https://tayyib.is-a.dev/ai) for the full stance.

## Notes

This file gives AI models a structured overview of the site.
For the full, always-updated list of pages and posts, see the sitemap:
https://tayyib.is-a.dev/sitemap.xml

The author is open to backend roles and contract work.