Building a Feature Extraction Engine for Laravel
The technical deep dive into kit's code extraction engine — annotations, manifests, and generating dead-code-free Laravel projects.
Writing on software, open source, and building products.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, product development, and more, collected in chronological order.
Build in Public: December 2025 Recap
A month of shipping, rewriting, and learning. Here's what happened across my projects in December 2025.
Laravel Form Request Patterns I Use in Every Project
Stop putting validation in your controllers. Here are the Form Request patterns that keep your Laravel controllers thin and your validation reusable.
How I Added AI-Powered Translations to a Laravel Package
Building AI translation into Laravel Translations Pro — from provider abstraction to cost estimation to glossary-aware context.
PHP 8.4 Features I Actually Use Every Day in Laravel
Property hooks, asymmetric visibility, new without parentheses, and the new array functions — the PHP 8.4 features that changed how I write Laravel code.
Designing a Modular Laravel Starter Kit Architecture
How I designed a starter kit where buyers pick only the features they need — and the extraction system that makes it possible.
7 Laravel Eloquent Tricks That Will Clean Up Your Code
Practical Eloquent patterns that make a real difference — from query scopes to withWhereHas to upserts to limiting eager loads in Laravel 12.
Laravel Translations v2: A Complete Rewrite from Scratch
After months of work, Laravel Translations v2 is here — rebuilt from the ground up with React, Inertia v2, role-based access, and a completely new architecture.