Laravel

AI

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

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.

Laravel

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.

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.

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.

Laravel

Building AI Features in Laravel: Patterns That Scale

Everyone's adding AI to their Laravel apps. Most are doing it wrong.

Building in Public

Building Expensio: January 2026 update

Time for another Expensio update. Here's what I've been working on this month.