NOTES FROM THE WORK
Things I’ve
figured out.
Engineering lessons, experiments, community stories and the occasional mistake worth writing down.
Why whereDate() Might Be Killing Your Performance
A Laravel performance lesson hiding inside a familiar query.
READ ON MEDIUM →Laravel’s Event Service Discovery vs. the Old-School Way
The convenience of convention versus the clarity of an explicit map.
READ ON MEDIUM →Your Customers Deserve Better Support
How a Telegram bot can keep customer requests private and prevent them from getting lost.
READ ON MEDIUM →Integrating Typesense with Laravel Scout
The small configuration mistake that wasted hours—and the fix.
READ ON MEDIUM →Self-Hosting Typesense
What I learned running a scalable search service on our own infrastructure.
READ ON MEDIUM →This Could Affect Your Page Speed in Laravel
A deceptively simple validation choice with a performance cost.
READ ON MEDIUM →November’s Journey of Impact
Reflections from the stage, the community and the uncertainty of starting.
READ ON MEDIUM →Why Your Laravel Relationship Returns an Integer
A strange Eloquent result, what caused it and how to fix it.
READ ON MEDIUM →Reflections on My Africa DevOps Summit Experience
What Nairobi taught me about speaking, learning and technical community.
READ ON MEDIUM →Embracing Change: Preparing for PHP 8.3
A practical look at PHP 8.3 deprecations, breaking changes and preparing an existing codebase for the upgrade.
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