Writing, mostly on PHP, Laravel and shipping product.

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Oct 26, 2025

Neural Networks in the 1940s

Sometimes everything comes together, like finding out about a bit of history you weren't aware of before. Today I watched this youtube video of a chat with...

Oct 26, 2025

Rector - automatic refactoring for PHP applications

Rector is a package that allows you to run automatic refactors on a PHP codebase. You composer require rector/rector and then run...

laravel
Sep 26, 2025

Kagi - trying a new search engine

Lots of issues with the model of advertising financed search engines are well known: they incentivized to prioritize advertiser-related features like placing...

web services
Jul 1, 2025

Laravel Telescope and Pulse - right tool for the job

In the past I used telescope a lot: I even had it behind auth set up on prod and just maybe turned off most of the time. The release of pulse eventually made...

laravel