Laravel, cloud infrastructure, and the apps I build along the way.
Hands-on notes from real projects: Laravel on AWS and Oracle Cloud, deployments that don't waste your afternoon, and the small Mac and iPhone apps I ship on the side.
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- Apps & games
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- Stack
- Laravel · Elixir · Golang
- Latest
- September 5, 2026
Small tools, built to be used every day.
Apps for Mac and iPhone, plus a first game. Each one started as an itch of my own. The newest is still in TestFlight.
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Coming soon
Yarnloaf
A sort-and-reveal puzzle built with Godot 4. Pour yarn between spools until every colour sits together, and every solved level stitches a piece of a pixel picture. 1000 generated, solver-verified levels. Coming soon to iOS.
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Space Avocado
A posting planner for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Xiao Hong Shu and WeChat. Compose once, land in a weekly schedule of best-reach slots, and get a nudge when a post is due — no OAuth, no auto-posting, no passwords.
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Frontlet
A lightweight macOS browser that pins any streaming site above your other apps. Cinema mode, smart dodge, and a minimal pinned UI keep the video in front and the chrome out of your way.
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Repito
A beautifully crafted daily task manager that tracks recurring todos and long-term completion statistics — with a focus timer and premium golden aesthetic for macOS and iOS.
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TimeTie
TimeTie is an affordable scheduling app that helps coordinate meetings across time zones. It provides a visual timeline and calendar export functionality to make finding suitable meeting times easier for distributed teams.
Read the storyNotes from production. Laravel, AWS, OCI, and the occasional detour.
Written while solving the problem, not after. Expect configuration snippets, dead ends, and what finally worked.
Yarnloaf: A Calm Sort-and-Stitch Puzzle for iPhone
A sort-and-reveal puzzle built with Godot 4. Pour yarn between spools until every colour sits together, and every solved level stitches a piece of a pixel picture. 1000 generated, solver-verified levels. Coming soon to iOS.
Space Avocado: Plan Your Social Posts Without Handing Over Passwords
A posting planner for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Xiao Hong Shu and WeChat. Compose once, land in a weekly schedule of best-reach slots, and get a nudge when a post is due — no OAuth, no auto-posting, no passwords.
Frontlet: A Floating Browser for Streaming on macOS
A lightweight macOS browser that pins any streaming site above your other apps. Cinema mode, smart dodge, and a minimal pinned UI keep the video in front and the chrome out of your way.
Repito: A Premium Daily Todo App for Mac and iPhone
A beautifully crafted daily task manager that tracks recurring todos and long-term completion statistics — with a focus timer and premium golden aesthetic for macOS and iOS.
TimeTie: A Simple Global Team Scheduling App
TimeTie is an affordable scheduling app that helps coordinate meetings across time zones. It provides a visual timeline and calendar export functionality to make finding suitable meeting times easier for distributed teams.
Using OCI Object Storage in Laravel
This article describes how you can use OCI Object Storage in your Laravel 11 application.
Laravel and Object Storage on OCI
Recently there is a lot of buzz around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) because of their generous "Always Free Tier"...
Flutter SSL error with Laravel Herd
I was working on a Flutter project in the iOS simulator that was not able to connect to my Laravel API hosted on Herd.
Laravel on Lightsail Containers
I recently tried to get Laravel 11 running on AWS Lightsail Container. Mostly because I wanted to know how feasible it is for smaller production projects.
Speed up deployments
When you are deploying a Laravel application with Laravel Forge, Ploi, AWS Code Build or similar the installation of composer and node dependencies can take a long time.
Multi-language Laravel with VueJS
Use Laravel translations with a VueJS frontend. In many cases you won't need to localize your web-application early on, but we are over-engineering our application.
OrbStack for Laravel development
Recently there are more and more developers giving OrbStack a try. It promises to be a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop.
UUID as primary key for Laravel eloquent models
Have you ever deployed an application using the default primary keys in Laravel only to find out a week later that you have 10 million records in one table?
Basic setup for a new AWS account
Setting up a brand new AWS account using organizations with basic security.
What I do, in one line
I build custom software for web and mobile, consult on AWS Cloud, and help teams put AI to work.
Laravel · Elixir · Golang · AWS Cloud consultation · AI enablement · Custom development for web, mobile and applications
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