Software Engineer from Melbourne, Australia — notes on web development, tooling, and the occasional opinion.https://robmellett.comen-auhttps://robmellett.com/blog/ucp-vs-mcphttps://robmellett.com/blog/ucp-vs-mcpGoogle'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.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/hono-dependency-injectionhttps://robmellett.com/blog/hono-dependency-injectionHow to wire up services cleanly in a Hono app using Bindings and context variables — with a Telegram notification service as the example.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/modern-saas-starterhttps://robmellett.com/blog/modern-saas-starterA production-ready Laravel SaaS starter kit with Paddle billing baked in, so you can skip the boilerplate and ship your actual product.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/testing-payment-apishttps://robmellett.com/blog/testing-payment-apisHow to make testing Payment APIs fast, easy and cleanMon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-domain-driven-design-agenthttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-domain-driven-design-agentA 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.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-phpstan-agenthttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-phpstan-agentA field manual for autonomous or human agents working in Laravel 13 repos using PHPStan and LarastanThu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/guzzle-middleware-in-laravelhttps://robmellett.com/blog/guzzle-middleware-in-laravelHow 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.Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/reproducible-dev-environments-with-dockerhttps://robmellett.com/blog/reproducible-dev-environments-with-dockerA 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.Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-3https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-3In 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.Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-2https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-2In this part of the series we set up AWS Personalize to handle the Items and InteractionsMon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-1https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-1In 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.Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-and-hasura-for-instant-graphqlhttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-and-hasura-for-instant-graphqlHow to use the power of Laravel and Hasura for Instant GraphQLWed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT