How I Built My Own Private Composer Package Distribution
Why I skipped Satis and Packagist.com and built a private Composer repository directly into my Laravel app — with license-gated authentication and GitHub proxying.
Writing on software engineering, open source, and building products.
Deep dives, lessons learned, and practical takes on the things I build and ship.
Lessons from Shipping a Laravel Package with 600K Downloads
From blade-flags to Laravel Translations — the real lessons from maintaining open-source packages used by thousands of developers.
Laravel Queued Jobs: Patterns for Reliable Processing
How I structure queued jobs in production Laravel apps — from retry strategies to batch processing to avoiding the pitfalls that silently lose data.
Build in Public: January 2026 Recap
January was about polishing and preparing for launch. Here's the progress across Laravel Translations Pro, the free v2, and kit.
The Action Pattern for Business Logic in Laravel
Actions are single-purpose classes that keep your controllers thin and your business logic testable. Here's how I use them across three production Laravel apps.
Detecting Hardcoded Strings in Laravel, Blade, and React
How I built a multi-language code scanner that finds untranslated strings in Blade, PHP, React, and Vue files — and converts them to translation keys.
Laravel Testing Patterns: How I Write Every Test with Pest
The testing patterns I've settled on after writing thousands of Pest tests across three Laravel projects — from naming conventions to factory states to what not to test.
Building a License-Gated CLI Installer for a Laravel Product
How I built kit's installer — a CLI that validates a license key, resolves selected modules, and generates a clean Laravel project.
Migrating to Tailwind CSS v4: What Broke and What Improved
I migrated Laravel Translations, Translations Pro, and kit from Tailwind v3 to v4. Here's what broke, what improved, and the patterns to watch for.
Laravel RBAC Without External Packages
How I implemented RBAC in Laravel Translations v2 — from enum-based roles to policy authorization to middleware guards, without any external packages.