12articles on web development, tooling, and the occasional opinion.
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol get lumped together because both have 'agent' in the pitch. They solve different problems at different layers. Here's what each one actually looks like on the wire — with concrete ecommerce examples for MCP.
How to wire up services cleanly in a Hono app using Bindings and context variables — with a Telegram notification service as the example.
A production-ready Laravel SaaS starter kit with Paddle billing baked in, so you can skip the boilerplate and ship your actual product.
How to make testing Payment APIs fast, easy and clean
A pragmatic, API-first take on Domain-Driven Design in Laravel — actions, payloads, invokable controllers, and Responsable responses. Inspired by Spatie Beyond CRUD, adapted for real-world projects.
A field manual for autonomous or human agents working in Laravel 13 repos using PHPStan and Larastan
How to use Guzzle middleware to log, inspect, and transform every outbound HTTP request your Laravel app makes — with a drop-in logging package as the worked example.
A tour of my Docker images project — a small collection of PHP, CLI, and tooling images that keep my local environments reproducible, match CI, and stay in sync with Laravel Sail automatically.
In this part of the series we tweak the AWS Personalize Solution Recipes that the AWS team have built based on their experiences of Amazon Retail.
In this part of the series we set up AWS Personalize to handle the Items and Interactions
In this part of the series we quickly go over what AWS Personalize is, and set up a Laravel project to start ingesting data to interact with the service.
How to use the power of Laravel and Hasura for Instant GraphQL