Engineering,
taught
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leadership,
practised.
I'm Steven — CTO at Digitonic, a PHP engineer since 2010 and a keen golfer with a terrible handicap. This is where I write it all down.
…and a few friends I can't name.
Latest from the journal
Stop Explaining Your Form in a Placeholder: Filament v5's Callout Component
Every Filament form eventually needs to say something that does not belong on a single field. v5.2 shipped a component for it, and almost nobody noticed.
wire:show and wire:text: The Livewire 4 Directives That Never Hit the Server
Two Livewire 4 directives quietly delete a whole category of round trips. Here is the mental model for when they replace @if and {{ }}, and the security boundary they must never cross.
Sort Users by Their Last Order Without an N+1: Eloquent Subquery Selects
An admin table needs a sortable Last ordered column. Eager loading fixes the query count but not the memory, and it cannot sort at all. The subquery select does both in four lines.