Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods
A Laravel package that tracks and enforces cumulative usage limits across calendar periods, with a fluent API, an Eloquent trait, route middleware, and cache or database storage.
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.
Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects
Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes your Laravel projects locally and opens any of them from a single keyboard shortcut.
Passwordless Sign-In with Fortify Two-Factor Support in Laravel
A Laravel package that adds magic link and one-time code authentication, with a two-factor handoff to Fortify and links that email scanners can't burn.
AI Review for Laravel Upgrades
Introducing a built-in AI Review of your Shift. Providing a second pass on your upgrade, guided by Shift's detailed comments combined with AI's context.
HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19
Laravel 13.19.0 adds an Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing helpers for the HTTP QUERY verb, plus a reduceInto collection method, a counted string helper, and bulk SQS job dispatching.
Ship AI with Laravel: I Tricked My Own AI Into Leaking Everything
First I socially engineer our own support agent into leaking its full system prompt and another customer's data. Then we lock it down with four layers of defense: a hardened prompt, a local LLM guard running on Ollama, tool-level authorization, and output filtering. The finale of Ship AI with Laravel.
Intercept: Middleware Guardrails for Laravel AI Agents
Intercept is a set of drop-in middleware for the Laravel AI SDK that filters prompts for injection attempts and PII before they reach a provider.
Laravel MPP: Charge AI Agents for API Access with 402 Payment Required
Laravel MPP is middleware from Square1 that gates routes behind the Machine Payments Protocol, returning a 402 challenge that AI agents pay with Stripe Shared Payment Tokens or Tempo pathUSD and then retry.
What's missing from your PHP development environment
DDLess is free for local debugging. The desktop app gives you step debugging, the Task Runner, Method Execution, and the Playground at no cost. A Pro plan adds conditional breakpoints, SSH debugging, and a PHPStorm plugin.
Find the Security Vulnerabilities in Your Laravel App with Sensagraph
Sensagraph scans your live Laravel applications from the outside; surfacing SQL injection, XSS, open ports, misconfigurations, and weak TLS before attackers find them.