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Thoughts on software development and things I find interesting.

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May 19, 2026·36 min read#laravel

Local Laravel with nix and devenv

We have Herd at home.

Apr 22, 2026·16 min read#laravel

Wonderful world of worktrees (and Laravel)

Worktrees... SO hot right now!

Jan 22, 2026·11 min read#laravel

Terminally driven, Laravel inspired

Neovim (btw)

May 20, 2025·8 min read#laravel

Parallel testing with Pest and SQLite

I live my life one parallel test at a time...

May 11, 2025·7 min read#laravel

Content caching with Statamic

Cachin' checks, breakin' (bottle)necks.

Mar 11, 2025·7 min read#php

Dynamic error assertions with PHPStan

This blog post could have been tweet, but yet here I am.

Feb 13, 2025·5 min read#php

Adventures with PHP, APIs, and sharing types with PHPStan

I like my PHP like I like my Rust... statically analyzed.

Mar 20, 2024·13 min read#dotnet

Dapper multi-mapping relationships and value equality

So long, IEqualityComparer<T>, you'll be sorely missed.

Mar 05, 2024·3 min read#php

Exploring developer experience with PHP, public APIs, and beer

It's 2024... and PHP still isn't dead?!

Dec 03, 2023·7 min read#laravel

Content-driven websites with PHP and Laravel

It's PHPin' time!

Nov 02, 2023·20 min read#rust

Rust, AWS Lambda, and too many Office quotes

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!

Aug 23, 2023·18 min read#dotnet

.NET Core service lifetimes in a nutshell

Singleton? More like single... not. I'm sorry.

Jul 11, 2023·21 min read#rust

Back to the server with Rust, Axum, and htmx

(Insert meme about React devs rediscovering the magic of PHP and ASP).

May 23, 2023·22 min read#zig

Ziggin' around with linked lists

Flashback to detecting loops in a list on a whiteboard...

Apr 05, 2023·17 min read#rust

Learning to fly with Rust and Postgres

If it can be Dockerized, it can be deployed.

Mar 30, 2023·18 min read#rust

Going serverless with Rust and Shuttle

Managing infrastructure sucks, let's write some serverless Rust with Shuttle!

Mar 15, 2023·7 min read#astro

Migrating to Astro

Astro, Svelte, and Rust walk into a bar...

Nov 03, 2022·10 min read#design

Constructing objects with intent

Build better object APIs with named constructors and fluent builders!

Sep 21, 2022·9 min read#dotnet

Rethinking exceptions in .NET

Exceptions... exceptions everywhere!

Mar 02, 2022·17 min read#react

React data fetching with RxJS

Believe it not, it's actual legal to use RxJS outside of Angular.

Feb 22, 2022·20 min read#angular

JAMstack Angular apps with Scully and Netlify

Something something JAMstack, something something Angular.

Nov 11, 2021·19 min read#angular

Hitchhiker's guide to Angular development with Nx

The answer is simple... 42 (projects in the same monorepo).

Sep 03, 2021·9 min read#angular

Implementing dark mode in Angular with Tailwind

If you're website doesn't have dark, it's a no for me dawg.

Aug 27, 2021·17 min read#angular

Build a Tailwind modal with Angular and NgRx

Make homemade modals great again!

Sep 23, 2020·12 min read#dotnet

Decoupling controllers with ApiEndpoints

No one likes monolithic controllers, and with ApiEndpoints, API design just got a whole lot easier.

Jul 26, 2020·29 min read#dotnet

State Management with Blazor using Fluxor (Part 2)

It's redux, but for... .NET?

Jun 26, 2020·30 min read#dotnet

State Management with Blazor using Fluxor (Part 1)

Redux... redux ALL the things!

Feb 02, 2020·32 min read#dotnet

Clean architecture, Dapper, MediatR, and buzzword bingo (part 4)

MediatR... so hot right now!

Nov 19, 2019·20 min read#dotnet

Clean architecture, Dapper, MediatR, and buzzword bingo (part 3)

Testing, testing... is this thing on?

Nov 05, 2019·18 min read#dotnet

Nullable reference types and designing with intent

Null reference exceptions can be a thing of the path, but with great power comes great responsibility.

Oct 06, 2019·25 min read#dotnet

Clean architecture, Dapper, MediatR, and buzzword bingo (part 2)

To repository or not to repository... that is the question.

Oct 04, 2019·15 min read#dotnet

Clean architecture, Dapper, MediatR, and buzzword bingo (part 1)

Beer and code... a match made in heaven.