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
Sabatino Masala
Ghent
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
2024 Thoughts
✦ August
I developed an open-source faceless video automation service using Laravel (code included!)
In this video I'll be going over the open-source faceless automation tool I created using Laravel & Remotion.
2024 Thoughts
✦ August
I open-sourced my Filament marketing website starter kit
I've gotten a lot of requests to open-source my starter kit on my previous post & behold: I
2024 Thoughts
✦ July
Migrating from DatoCMS to FilamentPHP for our new marketing website
DatoCMS is an amazing headless CMS and I’ve used it to power the marketing site of my multi-tenant food
2024 Thoughts
✦ July
How to scale Laravel: beyond the basics (Advanced Laravel Scaling)
In this post we’ll be talking about some lesser known methods that helped me scale my Laravel apps to
2024 Thoughts
✦ June
Building AI powered apps with Laravel & Replicate
Over the past years I’ve built a handful of apps that heavily relied on LLM’s, diffusers and other
2024 Thoughts
✦ May
DNS management in a multi-tenant setup
DNS management on a larger scale, for example in a multitenant application, can be a a massive pain. In this