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.

Moat: A Security Review for Your GitHub Account

Moat is a new tool from Nuno Maduro that reviews the security posture of a GitHub user, organization, or repository and reports settings that fall short of common recommendations.

Laravel Paper: A Flat-File Eloquent Driver

Laravel Paper is an Eloquent driver that allows you to use Markdown and JSON files as data sources while maintaining the familiar Eloquent query API.

Storage Cache Store in Laravel 13.10.0

Laravel 13.10.0 adds a filesystem-backed storage cache store, a --stop-when-empty-for queue worker option, a WorkerIdle event, schedule group lifecycle callbacks, Schema::hasForeignKey(), and more.

Ship AI with Laravel: Real-Time Streaming Chat UI with Livewire

The agent's been talking to us through JSON. In this episode we build a real-time chat widget with Livewire, Alpine, and server-sent events so responses stream in word by word as the agent generates them. Same agent, same tools, just live.