March 7, 2026
2026Dispatching Alpine Events Between Livewire Components
A small pattern for dispatching Alpine events, letting another Livewire component react, and keeping the UI optimistic without introducing a heavy global store.
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Notes on Laravel, debugging, talks, and the work behind the work.
This is where I write about the things that stay interesting once the real work starts: framework behavior, debugging lessons, engineering growth, talks, and decisions made under pressure.
Some notes are technical. Some are career-shaped. All of them come from work that actually happened.
- Laravel internals
- Livewire + Inertia
- Debugging lessons
- Talk recaps
2026
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2025
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November 5, 2025
2025Stop Click Hijacking: Mastering wire:navigate with Alpine Dialogs
A quick breakdown of how a simple dialog button kept triggering Livewire navigation and the clean fix using programmatic Livewire.navigate(). No hacks. Just reading the docs.
Read articleJune 29, 2025
2025Rebase Like a Pro: Laravel Ahmedabad Talk Recap
At Laravel Ahmedabad, I walked through how `git rebase` can keep your commit history clean, avoid merge mess, and improve team collaboration. Here’s a recap of the talk with slides and examples.
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November 17, 2024
2024Dynamic Service Container Tagging for Runtime Logic Switching
Did you know that Laravel’s Service Container supports tagging for grouping multiple implementations of an interface or class?
Read articleOctober 31, 2024
2024Does a Senior Need a Senior? The Laravel and Livewire Edition
You’d think a senior developer, especially in Laravel and Livewire, wouldn’t need help, right? Like, aren’t they the gurus who glide through code without breaking a sweat? Turns out… even seniors need a hand sometimes. Here’s why every Laravel senior could use another senior in their life—and maybe a few good laughs along the way.
Read articleSeptember 22, 2024
2024A Week So Busy Even My Laptop Asked for a Day Off!
Let me tell you, this week has been a rollercoaster ride. 🎢
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2024From Developer to Senior Manager: Debugging My Career Path
As a developer, life was simple. Write code, fix bugs, deploy. Rinse and repeat. But somewhere along the way, I leveled up—not in a video game sense (although I wish)—but to something called a “senior manager with developer responsibilities.”
Read articleAugust 4, 2024
2024Single-use Tests
The tests I write are usually written in Pest, PHPUnit, or Jest. I also usually commit them to a code repository - but not all automated tests should be committed. I wrote what I consider to be an automated test that was a "single-use test". It served its purpose and it will forever be in my heart, but not in my repository.
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August 24, 2023
2023Fast database queries are not always better
You probably think fast database queries are good. You also probably think slow database queries are bad. On top of all of these "thinks" you have about database queries - there is a certain Laravel method that, if you have seen it, you probably think you understand…but there is a chance you don’t.
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