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.

Model::withoutRelation() in Laravel 12.54.0

Laravel 12.54.0 adds Model::withoutRelation() for selectively unloading relations, interval() on InteractsWithData, BinaryFileResponse assertion support, and a composite index on the jobs table for queue polling performance.

A PHP Package for Concurrent Website Crawling

Spatie/crawler is a PHP package for crawling websites concurrently using Guzzle promises, with closure callbacks, typed response objects, scope controls, and built-in testing support.