· 8 min read
Building a RAG Pipeline in Laravel with pgvector
How I built the AI chat on this site: chunking documents, generating embeddings with Voyage AI, storing them in pgvector, and answering questions with Claude.
· 10 min read
Laravel Queues at Scale: Lessons from 10 Million Jobs
Patterns and pitfalls I've learned running Laravel queues in production — from connection pooling and job chunking to dead-letter handling and zero-downtime deployments.
· 7 min read
Adding PHPStan to a WordPress Plugin (Without Losing Your Mind)
A practical guide to getting PHPStan running on a production WordPress plugin, including the stubs you need and the rules you'll want to ignore.
· 12 min read
Building a WooCommerce Payment Gateway from Scratch
Everything you need to know to build a production-ready WooCommerce payment gateway integration — checkout flow, webhooks, refunds, and subscriptions.
· 9 min read
Building a Dark Design System with Tailwind CSS v4
How I designed the D1 "Dark Precision" system for this site — CSS-first @theme config, custom tokens, and a palette that passes WCAG at every level.
· 6 min read
WP-CLI Tips That Actually Save Time
Practical WP-CLI commands and custom commands I use daily to speed up WordPress development, deployments, and debugging.
· 8 min read
Feature Testing Laravel Applications with Pest
A pragmatic guide to writing fast, readable feature tests in Laravel using Pest — from test structure to database setup and API testing.
· 9 min read
Five Years of Open Source on WordPress.org — What I've Learned
Honest lessons from shipping and maintaining five plugins on WordPress.org — support burden, versioning, security reviews, and building an audience.