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.

RedBerry to Host Georgia's First Laravel Meetup in Tbilisi

The Laravel community continues to expand globally, and now it’s reaching the South Caucasus. On May 14th, the first official Laravel meetup in Tbilisi, Georgia will take place, hosted by RedBerry

Interruptible Jobs in Laravel 13.7.0

Laravel 13.7.0 adds the Interruptible interface for jobs to respond to worker signals, plus the @fonts Blade directive for Vite font optimization, bulk JSON path assertions in TestResponse, SortDirection enum support, and more.

A Free Shift to Check If Your App is Ready for Laravel Cloud

One of the biggest questions developers ask before migrating to Laravel Cloud is a simple one: will my app just work? Until recently, the only way to answer it was to read the docs, audit your dependencies by hand, or reach out to support.

Polyscope for Windows is Now Available

Polyscope is now available for Windows, bringing the same app and architecture as the macOS version to Windows users.

Laravel Sluggable

Laravel Sluggable is an opinionated take on automatic slug generation for Eloquent models

Ship AI with Laravel: RAG with Embeddings and pgvector in Laravel 13

Your agent looks up orders and remembers conversations but invents policies when customers ask about returns or shipping. In this episode we build a searchable knowledge base with embeddings and pgvector so the answers come from real documentation.

PHPverse 2026 Returns June 9th

The free online PHP conference is back with talks from Jeffrey Way, Fabien Potencier, Nils Adermann, and more.