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.

The Neuron AI Framework for PHP and Laravel

Neuron AI is a PHP Agentic framework to build production-ready AI-driven applications. Along with the core framework, the neuron-laravel package provides Laravel-specific integration points without limiting access to the core framework components.

Cache Without Overlapping in Laravel 12.47.0

Laravel 12.47.0 was released on January 13, 2026, introducing several developer-experience improvements including a new @includeIsolated Blade directive for isolated template includes, a convenient Cache::withoutOverlapping() method for lock-based operations, and more.

Going Real-Time with Reverb - Laravel In Practice EP17

Your dashboard is fast, but users still hit refresh to see new data. In this episode, I show you how to add real-time updates with Laravel Reverb and Echo, so your charts update instantly the moment new orders arrive.

PHP DebugBar v3 is released

PHP DebugBar v3.0.0 modernizes the toolbar with a jQuery-free UI, Tabler SVG icons, improved assets and performance, plus breaking changes for widgets, collectors, and storage.

What's new in Filament v4.5?

We're excited to announce the release of Filament v4.5! This update is full of incredible quality-of-life improvements for the rich text editor, file uploads, and more!

Laravel Introduces Official AI Documentation

Laravel introduces official AI Assisted Development documentation, detailing how to use AI tools and Laravel Boost to build smarter, context-aware Laravel applications.

Laravel Gets a Claude Code Simplifier Plugin

Taylor Otwell has released a new Laravel-focused plugin for Claude Code that brings automated code cleanup directly into Laravel and PHP workflows.