Technical Articles
Opinionated writing on software systems, strict monolithic domain boundaries, testing strategies, and Laravel performance.
Building Bulletproof Laravel APIs using Schema-First Contract Validation
Stop letting undocumented fields into your Laravel API. Write the JSON Schema first, then enforce it in middleware, DTOs, and your Pest test suite.
Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel
Replace a procedural PHP monolith with Laravel one route at a time. Nginx ingress, session bridging that actually works, and Eloquent on a legacy schema.
Give your Laravel AI agent real-time web knowledge
The Laravel AI SDK is provider-agnostic, but its built-in web tools aren't. Here's how to give your agent real-time web knowledge without losing that independence.
The Right Agent at the Right Time
How to run AI across the whole dev lifecycle: the right agent at each stage, human gates on judgement, and decision records that keep architecture honest.
Fibers Plus the Polling API: What Async PHP Actually Looks Like Now
Fibers give PHP concurrency. The Polling API gives it native epoll and kqueue. Here's how to build on both, with honest benchmarks.
The Polling API Is the Most Underrated RFC PHP Has Shipped in Years
The Polling API gives PHP 8.6 native epoll and kqueue at last. Here's why the RFC nobody discussed is the most consequential in years.
A Proper Look at Tabstack
A developer's review of Tabstack, the Mozilla-backed web API that gives AI agents clean extraction, browser automation, and cited research without a scraper.
Giving your agents a terminal: a first look at the tabstack CLI
A hands-on look at Mozilla's tabstack CLI: a single Go binary that turns any URL into clean Markdown or JSON, runs browser automation, and scripts neatly.
The Tips Behind API Artisan: Building Laravel APIs Developers Actually Want to Use
Practical tips for building Laravel APIs developers trust: contract-first design, versioning, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency and more. Free book inside.
Testing Actions, Not Mocks
Mocking your own Actions tests the wiring, not the behaviour. How I test Laravel Action classes for real with Pest, and where fakes still belong.
Meet Sevalla; Cloud Hosting Without the Headache
Sevalla simplifies cloud hosting by providing intuitive app deployment, database hosting, and object storage. No infrastructure to manage.
Server-Side Rate Limiting in Laravel with Fingerprint.dev
Learn how to build device-based rate limiting in Laravel with Fingerprint.dev, Redis caching, and custom middleware to avoid the limits of IP-based throttling.