Notes & write-ups
Long-form notes, essays, and write-ups drawn from my own notebook.
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5 min read
50 Laravel Tips from Laravel Live UK 2026
Notes from Liam Hammett's "50 Laravel Tips" talk at Laravel Live UK 2026 - AppServiceProvider wins, static analysis, and centralising Filament defaults.
Laravel Php Learning -
6 min read
Escaping the Code Maze
Notes from Yannick Chenot's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on closed-by-default code - final, readonly, typed params, Rector, PHPStan generics, and herding AI output with static analysis.
Laravel Php Learning -
4 min read
Event-Driven Evolution with AI as My Partner in Design
Notes from Naomi Gotts's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on ubiquitous language, a central domain-knowledge source for AI tooling, and event-driven architecture in Laravel.
Laravel Php Learning -
6 min read
Is This the Future of AI Coding?
Notes from Ashley Hindle's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk - the plan/delegate/verify workflow, quality gates for agents, golden examples, Laravel Skills, and Laravel Boost.
Laravel Php Ai Learning -
3 min read
Building Modern Laravel Frontends with Inertia v3 + React
Notes from Leah Thompson's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on the RILT stack, how Inertia v3 compares to Livewire, and what changed in the v3 release.
Laravel React Inertia Learning -
5 min read
Optimising Workflows and Shipping to Production
Notes from Ryan Chandler's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk - Pest architecture tests, enforcing conventions as rule tests, feature flags with Laravel Pennant, and safe migrations.
Laravel Php Learning -
5 min read
Rector Beyond the Upgrades
Notes from Dave Liddament's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on custom Rector rules - installing Rector, Laravel-specific rulesets, the PHP AST, and tombstones for dead-code detection.
Laravel Php Learning -
4 min read
Laravel Starter Kits: Past, Present and Future
Notes from Povilas Korop's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on the new Teams starter kit, building custom internal kits with --using, their maintenance trade-offs, and private Composer registries.
Laravel Php Learning -
3 min read
Stepping Away from the Code... But Not Quite
Notes from Wim Godden's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on the non-linear journey from junior to senior to CTO, and why senior judgment is built on trained reflex rather than knowledge alone.
Career Learning -
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Bulletproofing Your Laravel Code with Value Objects
Notes from Harris Raftopoulos's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on killing primitive obsession with value objects, plus Laravel Aegis, filter_var, Zed, and Tinkerwell.
Laravel Php Learning -
4 min read
What Do We Do Now?
Notes from Aaron Francis's Laravel Live UK 2026 talk on keeping AI in boxes - deterministic checks over prompt files, single ingress interfaces, and turning every mistake into a rule.
Laravel Php Ai Learning -
1 min read
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