Anthony Hobday shares a thoughtful framework for thinking about software quality, from reliability and speed to clarity, efficiency, and beauty. I liked his argument that quality depends on both individual care and organisational appetite. Read Read more…
Jakub shares a collection of small interface details that compound into a much better user experience, from text wrapping and concentric radius math to interruptible animations and optical alignment. It is packed with practical UI Read more…
In this post, Dries shows how they use Claude Skills to automate repetitive work in client projects, like generating Saloon requests, DTOs, and Livewire pages. It is a practical look at where these workflows save Read more…
Nick and Dries share how they built Kaartje, a digital postcard wall with a spinning 3D globe that places postcards near the sender’s city. It’s a fun behind-the-scenes look at the stack, the role AI Read more…
The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to Read more…
Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan’s distinction between software’s flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It’s a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and Read more…
Sebastian shares a practical three-step workflow for writing feature specs, from gathering notes with tools like Granola to using a thinking model to surface contradictions and scope. He then switches back to hands-on editing to Read more…
At our latest hackathon, we built Live at Spatie, a Laravel and React wrapper around Owntone that lets the whole team queue music, see what’s playing, and control the office speakers. The nicest touch is Read more…
Learn what the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) pattern is and how to apply it in Laravel with a simple, practical example. Read more
Peter Suhm shares a simple Todoist setup that separates tasks due on a specific day from tasks that just need to happen this week. The heart of the system is a single custom filter that Read more…