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Preparing children for a post-scarcity world

Practical skills for a future where supply is infinite

The resume is dead — but nobody dares say it

A resume is a list of places you've been. Not proof of what you can do.

When your CMS vendor can't keep up with AI

Enterprise CMS vendors are falling behind on AI tooling. A community developer built a better Sitefinity MCP server than the vendor did. Here's what that tells us about the future of enterprise development.

Expensio Update - February 2026

Another month, another round of Expensio changes. This one was mostly about making the app feel faster and less annoying to use on a daily basis.

5 AI features you can add to any Laravel app this weekend

Stop over-engineering AI features. The Laravel AI SDK lets you add content generation, sentiment analysis, image alt-text, auto-tagging, and a RAG chatbot to any app in one weekend.

Your daughter's photo is one app away from being fake-naked

AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.

The question we should stop asking our kids

And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything

The quiet data grab reshaping online recruitment

Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.

AI agents are hiring humans now. Yes, really.

Every day I direct AI agents. But this week I discovered a platform where AI agents hire humans. The roles are reversed.

I'm Living the AI Disruption Everyone's Warning About

Matt Shumer warns AI disruption is coming. I'm writing to confirm: it's not coming — it's here. And I've been living it for over a year.

Dotmap update: Quick Search, Postgres, and smarter skill ranking

A few updates on Dotmap since the last post.

Why your AI coding agent is burning tokens on browser automation

Browser automation with AI agents sounds magical until you see the bill. Every screenshot, every DOM snapshot, every page navigation — it all gets stuffed into the context window. Your tokens evaporate faster than you can say "take a screenshot."

Dotmap

Building Dotmap: shipping features nobody asked for

How a side project grew from "map with dots" to a full professional discovery platform.

Vibe Coding

I can't stop adding features to the app no one asked for

Last week I built Vocaboo — a vocabulary quiz app for my daughter. Six hours of vibe coding. Problem solved. Ship it.

Laravel

Laravel finally has an official AI SDK. Here's why it matters.

Taylor Otwell just dropped something big: an official, first-party AI SDK for Laravel.

Vibe Coding

The app no one will ever use (except my daughter)

Last week, my daughter came home with a vocabulary list. Fifty English words. Test on Friday.

Expensio

I built Expensio. Here's what's next.

Some tools exist because someone got frustrated enough to build them.

AI

I watched a developer admit AI killed his business model. Here's why I'm not worried.

Last week, Jeffrey Way — the founder of Laracasts and one of the most respected voices in the Laravel community — posted a video that hit different.

AI

I tried every AI coding assistant. Here's what actually stuck.

I've been deep in the AI coding assistant rabbit hole for the past year. Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex — I've tried them all. And I have opinions.

AI

I watched a 60-minute tech talk. I had the key insights in 34 seconds.

Last week I discovered a CLI tool that changed how I consume video content. It extracts transcripts from YouTube, podcasts, and web pages — then summarizes them using AI.

NativePHP

NativePHP Mobile v3: Build iOS Apps with PHP (Now Free)

PHP developers can now build and ship native iOS and Android apps without learning Swift or Kotlin. No license fees. No trial periods. Just install a package and start building.

Sitefinity

Is Sitefinity Still Worth It in 2026? An Honest Take

I spent over a decade building sites on Sitefinity. It paid my bills, taught me enterprise development, and gave me deep expertise in .NET CMS architecture.