Engineering
Logarithmic auto-scaling for Laravel Horizon
Why I added a logarithmic queue-size strategy to Laravel Horizon after large scheduled spikes kept starving smaller realtime queues.
Blog
TTRPG
Using AI to review our D&D sessions
How I use session transcripts, multiple AI reviewers and Notion to turn our D&D sessions into concrete roleplay feedback and next-session coaching.
Engineering
Custom Email Validation in Laravel
How I extended Laravel's email rule to accept custom validator classes — the story behind the PR, and how to use it in real projects.
Engineering
Geography in Laravel: retrieving geographical data
How to retrieve an geographical data from OpenStreetMap and transform them into usable PHP objects.
Professional
Working at Hospitable
Answering some questions I got how it is to work at Hospitable and about our hiring process.
Professional
Lessons from Open Source Software
This post is a response/reaction to "From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software" by Patrick Organ.
Engineering
Dynamic Route Model Binding in Laravel Eloquent
Explore elegant solutions for resolving model binding, whether through named scopes for simplicity or custom query builders for precision.
Engineering
Immutable Carbon in Laravel
A few Laravel-specific additions to my previous Carbon post: avoiding mutation, switching Laravel to CarbonImmutable globally, and immutable Eloquent casts.
Engineering
Using Discord roles for Laravel permissions
How I made Discord the source of truth for our Laravel permissions instead of maintaining the same team roles twice.
Engineering
Preserving Date Integrity with Immutable Carbon
Carbon is mutable by default, which means a harmless-looking date calculation can silently change the original value. This is why I prefer CarbonImmutable for dates I pass around application code.
Personal
End of an era
The last years were super disturbing and this is the end of a long episode of my life.
