Articles

The 5 Second Rule: the trigger that can change your daily life

12 August 2026

There's a short window between the impulse to act and the excuse not to. Mel Robbins' countdown is a mechanical way to close it, and it works precisely because it asks nothing of your motivation.

The one rule that won me a World Cup prediction league

20 July 2026

I finished first out of 100 in a World Cup prediction league. The data set the baseline; the points came from knowing exactly when I was allowed to override it.

TV Time Is Gone. Here's Where Your Shows Live Now.

15 July 2026

TV Time shut down on July 15, 2026. Popcorn is the free, no-ads, no-tracking films and series tracker your watchlist should live in now.

Why your off-the-shelf software costs you three times more than you planned

14 July 2026

The licence is only the visible part of the bill. The real cost is the parallel system your team builds every week to work around a tool that never quite fits.

What long-distance cycling taught me about being a better developer

2 July 2026

I spend my days with Laravel. But I've also spent weeks in the saddle, crossing Europe all the way to Nordkapp. The road taught me things about my craft that no documentation ever could.

I Turned My 404 Page Into a Flappy Bird Clone

10 May 2026

Look, nobody likes hitting a 404. It's the digital equivalent of walking into a glass door.

Building Alpage: What I Learned Writing a Native macOS Dev Environment in Swift, with AI as a Pair

23 April 2026

A native macOS menu bar app that manages a local web dev environment

Recovering a Corrupted Encrypted macOS DMG: A Deep Dive

15 April 2026

Data loss has a cruel quality when it strikes without warning — a cable pulled loose, a disk disconnected mid-write, and suddenly an encrypted DMG refuses to mount.

I was a bad employee before I was a decent founder

22 January 2026

Fifteen years of running Bee Interactive — how obsession with the right pain, Laravel, open source, and one hire reshaped what "just a developer" means.

Lochness CMS: Why I built my own Laravel-powered CMS

9 December 2025

The story behind Lochness CMS — a tailor-made, multilingual Laravel CMS that powers dozens of client projects, from its humble PHP 5 beginnings to a mature private Composer package.

From FrontPage to the App Store: My NativePHP journey

15 November 2025

A self-taught web developer's 20-year journey from building school websites with Microsoft FrontPage to publishing a native iOS app on the App Store using Laravel and NativePHP.

Managing (part of) my life: From Excel hell to Laravel paradise with Taab

1 July 2025

How an insurance agent's question led me to ditch spreadsheets and build Taab, a personal finance app powered by Laravel, event sourcing, and a handful of clever integrations.

Building my first open source package: A Livewire file manager for Laravel

20 June 2024

The story behind my first open source contribution — a simple, clean file manager for Laravel built with Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS, inspired by macOS Finder.