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taught
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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
Filament Tables That Work on a Phone: Stacked Rows in v5.2
A ten-column Filament table on a phone scrolls sideways forever. Filament v5.2 added stackedOnMobile() — here is how to use it, and the four things you still have to fix yourself.
Stop Fighting pecl: Installing PHP Extensions with PIE
pecl is deprecated and PIE is the official replacement. Here is how to install, pin and verify PHP extensions, and how PIE slots into a multi-stage Laravel Dockerfile.
Stop Asking the Model for a Verdict: Composite Scoring with Jev in Laravel
A single AI quality score is a number nobody can defend. Here's how to split the judgement into atomic Jev Score questions and combine them with weights your own code owns.