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Ideas in code.
Stories from the workbench.

Full-Stack Software Engineer & Tech Blogger 👨‍💻

I build and write about software end to end websites, mobile apps, desktop tools, and AI-assisted features with long-form notes on how it all fits together.

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"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your lessons into light. 🌤️📚"

- Oprah Winfrey

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Laravel

PHP

Python

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Recent writing tutorials, notes and experiments ✨

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23 hours ago 12

Laravel PHP Programming

Scaling Laravel 12 with Octane and FrankenPHP: A Production Performance Guide

Cut Laravel 12 latency by more than half with Octane and FrankenPHP install, configure, audit singletons, and benchmark, with the production gotchas that bite teams in week two.

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2 days ago 24

Laravel AI Engineering

Multimodal AI in Laravel: Receipt Extraction with Claude Vision

Build a multimodal AI feature in Laravel using Claude vision. Extract structured data from receipt photos and PDFs with validation, confidence scoring, and review queues.

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4 days ago 43

Laravel PHP Programming

Building Modern Reactive UIs with Laravel 12 and Livewire 4: A Production Guide

A production-grade walkthrough of Livewire 4 in Laravel 12 form objects, lazy components, Alpine interop, file uploads, Pest tests, and the deployment gotchas nobody warns you about.

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5 days ago 1.2K

Laravel PHP Programming

Building Powerful Admin Panels with Laravel 12 and Filament v5: A Production Guide

Ship a real Filament v5 admin panel on Laravel 12 : Resources, RBAC with Spatie, multi-tenancy, custom widgets, and a deployment checklist for teams beyond hello-world.

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1 week ago 128

Laravel AI Engineering

Building a Production RAG System with pgvector and Laravel

Ship a real RAG pipeline in Laravel using PostgreSQL pgvector. Smart chunking, batched embeddings, HNSW indexes, reranking, and citation-backed answers.

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1 week ago 43

Laravel AI Engineering

Building an AI Code Review Bot with Claude and GitHub Webhooks

Build a self-hosted AI code reviewer in Laravel: GitHub webhooks, signature verification, structured Claude output, and inline review comments on real PRs.

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Journal ✍️

Personal reflections & notes

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1 month ago 165

Live to the Fullest in a World of Chaos

Live to the full in a distressed world. Find meaning in the small things, reflect on gratitude, work stress, faith, and everyday life and its beauty.

1 month ago 182

When the Heart Feels Heavy: Trusting What the Soul Can Bear ?

Sometimes I find myself asking a quiet, lingering question: how much can a soul truly bear? It is not always the loud, visible hardships that weigh the most.

1 month ago 227

The Two-Faced Among Us: How to Identify Narcissism and Keep your Peace.

Others may present a mask of goodness to others when in the streets yet display a completely different persona when at home. This article will discuss the psychology of two-faced behaviour.

Book Reviews 📚

Books I've read & reviewed

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3 days ago 20

Non-fiction

Book Review

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

A short, dense distillation of Naval's thinking on wealth, happiness, and judgement. The kind of book you keep within arm's reach.

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2 weeks ago 54

Non-fiction

Book Review

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

Old-fashioned personal finance wrapped in ancient Babylonian parables. Dated in tone, evergreen in substance. Still the simplest money book I would hand to a teenager.

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2 weeks ago 62

Non-fiction

Book Review

Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy's short book on prioritisation and beating procrastination. Some of it has not aged well, but the ABCDE method and the core metaphor still earn a place on the productivity shelf.