2026 Thoughts
✦ February
Creating worktrees with Claude Code in a custom directory
Claude Code recently got support for a native --worktree flag which creates a git worktree where Claude works in.
The
Sabatino Masala
Ghent
2026 Thoughts
✦ February
Docker sandbox with Claude Code Max plan
Gist link
Anthropic unfortunately didn't make it easy for us developers to set up Claude Code with a
2026 Thoughts
✦ February
This is how I actually use AI agents to ship real features to production
Whether you like it or not, AI agents are creeping into our workflows as a developer and in this article,
2025 Thoughts
✦ December
Rebuilding our infrastructure from scratch and migrating live (AWS ECS migration)
It’s been a busy few months in which I was finally able to migrate our entire application to AWS
2025 Thoughts
✦ October
Don’t forget to prune your Laravel failed jobs table
Since we migrated to RDS, I've rolled out a disaster recovery strategy that involves creating daily offsite backups
2025 Thoughts
✦ June
DDoSed while on a holiday - How to configure CloudFlare correctly
Recently my multi-tenant food ordering app got hit with a massive DDoS attack in which one of our merchants was
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Migrating our MySQL database to RDS with just 3 minutes of downtime (step-by-step guide)
Today I’m going to walk you through how we migrated our MySQL database from a self-managed VPS to a
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Turbo monorepo with Tailwind V4 and Vite
I recently introduced Tailwind V4 into my Turbo monorepo using the @tailwindcss/vite plugin - and while this worked, HMR
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Powerful timeseries metrics using Timescale and Laravel
I help develop a baby registry platform that allows expecting parents to create and share a wishlist of baby products
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Laravel valet 502 error when using postgres pgsql driver
I recently faced an issue where my local Laravel installation would stop working when using the pgsql database driver. The
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
Dynamic image resizing in Laravel
When it comes to resizing images in Laravel, every developer seems to have their own favorite way of doing it.
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
PHP 8.4 with Sabatino & Brent (Property hooks, Asymmetric visibility, Lazy objects and more)
In this conversation, Brent will bring me up to speed with the exciting new features of PHP 8.4. We
2024 Thoughts
✦ December
High-level architecture of my point-of-sales app
In addition to my online food ordering app, I also developed an in-store Point-of-sales system that works on iPads, Android
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
Using UUID primary keys in Dexie
For my point-of-sales application I use Dexie as a wrapper for IndexedDB - and it works great.
I experimented with
2024 Thoughts
✦ November
How I maintain 100+ apps using expo & EAS
We offer customers of our food ordering platform the ability to get a personalized iOS and Android application. And, to
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
How does the Laravel defer helper work? (Plain PHP example included!)
By now we’ve all seen that you can use the Laravel defer helper to defer the execution of a