MKSine: A Filament CMS with Plugins, Themes, and Blocks
MKSine adds a CMS layer to Filament 4 and 5: a visual page builder, installable plugins and themes, menus, hooks, and a media library.
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.
Compoships: Eloquent Relationships on Multiple Columns
Compoships adds multi-column Eloquent relationships to Laravel, plus composite primary key handling for save, delete, and refresh.
Cancel In-Flight Form Submissions in Inertia.js v3.7
Inertia.js v3.7 adds cancelOnUnmount and a cancel method to the Form component, a polling state from usePoll, and once props that survive instant visits.
Laravel Starter Kits Now Ship with Vite+
Every Laravel starter kit now builds with Vite+, trading ESLint and Prettier for a single vp check across React, Vue, Svelte, and Livewire.
Pessimistic Locking in Laravel Eloquent with refreshForUpdate()
Laravel 13.27 adds refreshForUpdate() to Eloquent, reloading a model under lockForUpdate() so you can take a pessimistic lock without requerying by key.
Laravel Lock: Distributed Locks for Models and Routes
Laravel Lock scopes distributed locks to Eloquent models and routes in Laravel apps, with a fluent builder, middleware, and cache or database storage.
NativePHP v4: Build Native iOS and Android UI in Blade
NativePHP v4 renders Blade components as real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views with no web view. Here is what SuperNative changes, plus how to upgrade.
Pause All Laravel Queues During a Deploy
Laravel 13.25 adds queue:pause --all and Queue::pauseAll() to stop job processing on every connection without putting the app in maintenance mode.
Laravel Image Responses: Serve Resized Images From Routes
Laravel 13.25 lets you return an Image straight from a route. Build on-the-fly resize endpoints with fromStream, toFormat, and cache headers.
Pause All Queues and a New artisan dev UI in Laravel 13.25
Laravel 13.25 adds queue:pause --all across every connection, runs artisan dev in a tabbed terminal UI, and returns images straight from routes.