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Notes on engineering, product work, and the things we learn while building software with clients and for ourselves.

January 5, 2026

Sentry Best Practices: What to Report and What to Ignore

A practical guide to configuring Sentry so it surfaces real problems instead of drowning you in noise.

October 27, 2025

10 AI & Developer Tools Worth Your Attention in 2025

Reactive databases with TypeScript queries, durable execution platforms, and AI video translation in 175 languages. We tested these at our Istanbul retreat and they actually solve problems.

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June 3, 2025

Swiftmade to Launch GitLoom.ai for Early Access

Our agency spent way too much time explaining what we'd already coded - so we built a tool to do it for us

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December 22, 2022

Keep spam requests off your access.log on Laravel Forge

We were getting ~100 spam requests per second, which filled up our access.log file. Here's how we fixed that.

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April 5, 2022

PHPUnit failing with exit code 255

Our PHPUnit tests were passing fine on local but failing with exit code "255" on Github Actions. Here's how we fixed it.

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June 8, 2021

Automate code formatting in your Laravel project

Code style is important. Use this setup to automate it in your laravel project.

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June 22, 2020

Working with Laravel Sanctum in Paw

How to get Paw to work with Laravel's Sanctum SPA authentication

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April 10, 2019

Passing user input to orderBy is recipe for SQL injection

Learn how using the query builder haphazardly can cause security vulnerabilities.

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Sentry Best Practices: What to Report and What to Ignore

10 AI & Developer Tools Worth Your Attention in 2025

Swiftmade to Launch GitLoom.ai for Early Access

Keep spam requests off your access.log on Laravel Forge

PHPUnit failing with exit code 255

Automate code formatting in your Laravel project

Working with Laravel Sanctum in Paw

Passing user input to orderBy is recipe for SQL injection

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