Twelve Years of This Journal: Looking Back
Everything written in this journal from 2014 to 2026, and the story of growth it tells — and a closing.
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My writing, videos and posts across platforms on software architecture, PHP, DevOps and product development. (Page 7/33)
Visibility: why writing is a career investment
Writing sharpens your thinking and compounds over time. On the career value of being visible — not as personal branding, but as an honest record.
Being Polyglot Is an Outcome, Not a Goal
How becoming a multi-language developer turned into a supposed goal, why it never really was one, and how I actually got there.
Twelve years with Laravel: growing alongside a framework
From 2014 to 2026, twelve years with Laravel — a story of maturing with a tool, outgrowing it, and choosing it again.
Building Applications with PHP in 2026: State of the Ecosystem
The real state of PHP in 2026: language maturity, ecosystem health, and why the 'it's dead' narrative is still wrong.
Eleven Years In: A Developer's Shifting Priorities
A reflection on how my priorities as a developer have shifted over eleven years of this journal — from speed to resilience, from code to decisions.