Bifrost Turns One With AI Builds and New Workflows
Bifrost marks its first year and 10,000 successful builds with an MCP server, automated workflows, managed credentials, and AI build diagnoses.
Writing on software design, company building, and the aerospace industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Preview Blade Templates in macOS Finder with Quick Blade
Quick Blade is a free macOS Quick Look extension that renders .blade.php files in Finder with your layout, compiled CSS, and stand-in data.
Artisan Debugging Commands in Laravel Telescope 5.24.0
Laravel Telescope 5.24.0 adds two Artisan commands for inspecting recorded entries from the terminal and cancels stale dashboard requests during navigation.
Queue totalSize() and JobInterrupted Event in Laravel 13.31
Laravel 13.31 adds Queue::totalSize() to count every job on a connection, a JobInterrupted event, and chaperone support for BelongsToMany pivot models.
Find Unexpected Test Inputs with Fuzz for Pest
Fuzz brings coverage-guided fuzz testing to Pest 5, generating inputs to find failures beyond the cases you write by hand.
Laravel Rulebook: Business Rules That Change by Date
Laravel Rulebook resolves which version of a business rule applied on a given date, returns one winner, and explains why every other rule lost.
Taylor disabled GitHub Issues on most Laravel open-source packages.
If you hit a bug, describe it to a coding agent and open a PR. Even if the code isn't great, that's fine - code can be iterated on. The PR still documents the problem, and a proper fix can follow.
Exclude Vendor and Default Commands in `php artisan dev`
Laravel 13.30 adds DevCommands::withoutVendorCommands() and withoutDefaultCommands(), so php artisan dev runs only the processes your application registers.
Laravel queue:work Now Prints Why the Worker Stopped
Laravel 13.30 writes the queue worker's stop reason to queue:work output, in plain text and as a structured JSON record for log pipelines.
The Laracon Archive
The Laracon Archive - an archive of 626 talks, 287 speakers, 5 Laracons, over the entire 14 years