All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
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.
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.
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.
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.
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Connected Apps to let developers display a usage-based proficiency badge for PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs directly on their profile.
A Laravel wrapper by DirectoryTree around the privacy-filter.cpp binary that detects private entities like names and emails in text, with confidence scores, byte offsets, and a test fake.
NationForge is an open-core Laravel 12 application that gives political movements, civic groups, and community organizations a self-hosted home for contacts, events, donations, and campaigns.
A self-hosted dashboard that records the lifecycle of jobs, artisan commands, and scheduled tasks across every queue driver, with manual dispatch and production-minded sampling controls.
CultRepo has released a teaser for The Story of PHP, a JetBrains-sponsored documentary featuring Taylor Otwell, Fabien Potencier, Nikita Popov, and more.
The agent can answer from our knowledge base, but not about things that change by the minute like shipping delays. In this episode we add the WebSearch tool so the agent can pull live information from the web, with a locked-down allow list so it only hits domains we trust.