Creating Your First Laravel Package
Pulling the code you keep copying between projects into something reusable.
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Creating Type-Safe Environment Variables in TypeScript
Catching a missing environment variable at boot rather than in production.
Creating a Daily Review Template in Obsidian
Opening and closing the day deliberately instead of just letting it happen.
Creating a Custom ESLint Rule
Getting the linter to enforce the thing you keep repeating in reviews.
Building Type-Safe APIs with tRPC
Type safety from client to server, with none of the code generation.
Building Streaming APIs with Node.js
Moving a lot of data without your process quietly running out of memory.
Building Real-time Features with Laravel Reverb
First-party WebSockets in Laravel, without reaching for a third party.
Building Multi-Tenant SaaS with Laravel
One codebase serving many customers without their data getting mixed up.
Building Custom GPTs for Your Workflow
Building a narrow assistant that knows your workflow rather than everything.
Building Custom Artisan Commands in Laravel
Moving the tedious jobs into the CLI, where they were always meant to live.
Building an Automated Weekly Review with Things 3 and Obsidian
Use Dataview queries to automatically aggregate daily notes and completed tasks into a weekly review.
Building an AI Code Review Bot
Letting a bot take the boring first pass so people review what matters.
Building a Zettelkasten in Obsidian
Small atomic notes that quietly compound into something genuinely useful.
Building a Type-Safe API Client with Zod
Validating at runtime so your compile-time types are not a comfortable lie.
Building a Robust Webhook System in Laravel
Sending events to other people’s systems and coping when they are down.
Building a RAG Pipeline with LangChain
Getting a model to answer from your documents instead of inventing things.
Building a Plugin System in TypeScript
Letting other people extend your code without it descending into chaos.
Building a Pi-hole + Unbound DNS Stack
Blocking ads at the DNS level and doing your own recursion while you are there.
Building a Personal CRM with Obsidian and Dataview
Keeping track of the people you care about without paying monthly for it.
Building a Notes MCP Server for Claude Desktop
Give Claude direct access to your local notes folder using the Model Context Protocol.
Building a Media Server Stack: Jellyfin + *arr Apps
Jellyfin and the *arr apps wired together so the library looks after itself.
Building a Local-First App with CRDTs
Using Yjs so your app carries on working when the network does not.
Building a Job Queue with BullMQ
Getting slow work off the request cycle without losing any of it.
Building a Home Dashboard with Homepage
One page that tells you whether everything in the house is still up.
Building a CLI Tool with Commander.js and Ink
Terminal UIs in React with proper command parsing.