[ BLOG ]
WRITING
Notes on Laravel, open-source packages and running infrastructure that has to stay up. Roughly monthly.
WRITING
OPEN SOURCE
Hetzner SDK for Laravel
A type-safe Laravel SDK for the Hetzner Cloud API — every endpoint covered, real types on every response, and a ClientFake so tests never provision a server.
STRATEGY
Digital transformation is not a buzzword
A market heading for trillions, and roughly a third of the programmes that chase it actually work. What separates the two.
PHP
Why PHP is still the pragmatic choice for a business that needs to ship
PHP runs a huge share of the commercial web. The argument for it is usually about taste — here it is about cost, speed and risk instead.
AI & ENGINEERING
What AI is actually good at in a business — and what it does to engineers
What AI is genuinely good at inside a business, and the four habits that keep an engineer from going soft while using it.
COMMUNITY
Laracon EU 2024, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, February 2024. Why the speaker list — Otwell, Van der Herten, Dunglas, Pociot — is the actual reason to go.
FRAMEWORKS
Laravel vs Symfony vs CodeIgniter: more alike than the arguments suggest
The same MVC architecture, the same language, three different communities — what actually differs, what switching costs, and what the market pays for each.