The Power of Consistency: Why Showing Up Every Day Matters
If you’re an up-and-coming full-stack developer, you’ve probably felt the frustration of slow progress. Maybe you’ve looked at seasoned developers and wondered how they got so good.
Writing on web development, Saas, and anything else that comes to mind.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, web development, and more, collected in chronological order.
Livewire V3 Reactivity Gotcha: Why Your Child Components Aren't Updating
Livewire V3 has brought some exciting changes to the table, especially with its enhanced component-based architecture. As someone who loves building dynamic interfaces with Livewire, I was thrilled to dive into the new version.
The Power of 2 Hours: How Consistency Can Transform Your Life and Career
As developers, we often find ourselves juggling multiple projects, responsibilities, and goals. It's easy to get overwhelmed and struggle to make progress on what's important.
Navigating the Laravel Ecosystem as a New Full-Stack Developer in 2025
Starting your journey as a full-stack Laravel developer can be exciting and overwhelming all at once. Laravel has long been a go-to PHP framework for developers because of its elegant syntax, robust ecosystem, and vibrant community.
Why Disabling Query Logs in Laravel Is Essential for Accurate Performance Testing
When conducting performance tests in Laravel—especially memory usage tests—one of the most overlooked factors is the Laravel query log
You’re Overcomplicating Your Side Project — Here’s How to Simplify It
If you’ve ever started a side project and never finished it, you’re not alone. Many developers within the Laravel ecosystem (and beyond) dream up incredible ideas, start building, and then get bogged down in the details.
Side projects are the secret to becoming a better developer
If you ask any developer how they’ve really leveled up their skills, chances are they’ll tell you it wasn’t just by clocking in and out of their 9-to-5.
How Building a CRM on the Weekends Changed My Career Forever
You know those Saturday mornings when you wake up, sip your coffee, and think, "Today’s the day I change my life"? Yeah, neither do I. That’s not how this story starts.
Customizing the Trix Toolbar in Laravel Nova to Add H2 Subheadings
If you’ve worked with Laravel Nova and wanted to customize the Trix editor toolbar, you may have realized that it’s not as straightforward as you’d expect.
Why I Still Love Laravel After 10 Years of Building Stuff That Actually Works
There’s a certain joy in finding a tool that fits like a glove. The kind of tool you keep coming back to, year after year, because it just works. For me, that tool is Laravel.
The DRY Approach to CRM Status Displays: Building a Universal Badge Component
Struggling with managing multiple models and their various statuses in your CRM? Learn how to leverage Enums and dynamic types to create a sleek, color-coded badge system for different statuses.
Create a pulse effect with Three.js, Tween.js, and Vue 2
Three.js is a popular JavaScript library used for creating 3D graphics in web applications. It's a powerful tool that allows you to create stunning visual effects and animations, and it's also relatively easy to use.
Don't use timestamps with multi-image uploads.
I'm pretty sure all programmers have had to write code to upload an image at some point, and I'm pretty sure most of you have used a timestamp as the image name.
Building my first package - Vue FormBuilder
Hi, have you ever used a 3rd party package that didn't work the way it was supposed to and it became so frustrating that you decided to build a better one yourself. Well....that's why I built my first package.