Articles

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.