· 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.
· 9 min read
A Code Review Playbook That Catches Real Bugs
The three-pass review structure I've refined over a decade — when to push back, how to write comments, and what makes reviews valuable instead of performative.
· 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.
· 10 min read
How to Actually Work Async in a Distributed Team
Six years of async-first remote work — writing self-contained messages, when to switch to a call, time-zone etiquette, and the trap of over-rotating on async.
· 11 min read
The Honest Economics of Selling WordPress Plugins
Six years of selling on WordPress.org — conversion rates, pricing tiers, what drives installs, the support burden, and when to walk away from a plugin.
· 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.
· 8 min read
Hunting N+1 Queries in Laravel: Tools, Strict Mode, and Fixes
How to find N+1 queries with Telescope, Debugbar, and preventLazyLoading() — and the eager-loading patterns that fix them, including the polymorphic gotcha.
· 9 min read
10 Eloquent Query Optimizations, in Order of Effectiveness
A systematic optimization checklist for Eloquent — select(), chunk(), chunkById(), withCount(), pluck(), subquery selects, and when to bypass the model layer entirely.
· 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.
· 10 min read
Six Redis Patterns Every Laravel App Eventually Needs
Cache, sessions, queues, rate limiting, locks, pub/sub — the Redis patterns I use in production Laravel apps, with the trade-offs and the failure modes.
· 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.