Clonio CLI: Clone Production Databases With Anonymized Data
A PHP command-line tool that copies production databases into development, CI, and test environments while anonymizing PII and recording a signed audit trail.
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.
Ship AI with Laravel: Test Your AI System with Zero API Calls
We've built agents, tools, a knowledge base, and streaming. Now how do you test it without hitting OpenAI on every run? In this episode we test the entire system with Pest and zero API calls using the SDK's faking system. Fast, deterministic, free.
Help make Filament faster!
Calling all Filament users – want to help make Filament faster? As of today, the team has launched some big performance upgrades across all of the first-party Filament packages into beta and they need your help to test the releases in some real-world applications! Read on for more information about the changes that have been made!
Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal
Signal is a PHP library that reads attributes on your classes and methods and turns them into Markdown and JSON documentation through a single command.
USAIGE: Track Token Usage and Costs for Laravel AI SDK Requests
USAIGE is a Laravel package by Ludovic Guenet that records every AI request as a run with token counts, USD costs, provider details, and status — plus a built-in dashboard for browsing the data.
Laravel WhatsApp: Two Backends Behind One Facade
Laravel WhatsApp wraps both the Meta Cloud API and a whatsapp-web.js sidecar behind a single facade, with a Livewire admin UI for managing sessions, messages, and webhooks.
Ship AI with Laravel: Failover, Queues, and Middleware for AI Agents
Your AI platform works in development, but what happens when the provider goes down at 2am or traffic spikes? In this episode we add provider failover, queued background processing, and middleware for logging, rate limiting, and cost tracking. The infrastructure that keeps it running in production.
Route Metadata Support in Laravel 13.17
Laravel 13.17.0 adds first-class route metadata support, Postgres transaction pooler integration, a dev:list command, and a Should Not Retry exception handler for queue jobs.
Yammi Audit Log: Track Who Really Made a Change Across Jobs and Queues
A Laravel audit package that records model changes along with the actor, the origin, and a correlation ID, so a change made inside a queued job still points back to the user who started it.
Monitor and Control Schedules, Queues, and Errors in Laravel with Watchtower
A Laravel package by Devifyo that combines scheduled tasks, queues, jobs, and exceptions into one production dashboard — with bulk retries, on-demand task runs, and error resolution built in.