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All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.

Rebase Like a Pro: Laravel Ahmedabad Talk Recap

At Laravel Ahmedabad, I walked through how `git rebase` can keep your commit history clean, avoid merge mess, and improve team collaboration. Here’s a recap of the talk with slides and examples.

Does a Senior Need a Senior? The Laravel and Livewire Edition

You’d think a senior developer, especially in Laravel and Livewire, wouldn’t need help, right? Like, aren’t they the gurus who glide through code without breaking a sweat? Turns out… even seniors need a hand sometimes. Here’s why every Laravel senior could use another senior in their life—and maybe a few good laughs along the way.

From Developer to Senior Manager: Debugging My Career Path

As a developer, life was simple. Write code, fix bugs, deploy. Rinse and repeat. But somewhere along the way, I leveled up—not in a video game sense (although I wish)—but to something called a “senior manager with developer responsibilities.”

Single-use Tests

The tests I write are usually written in Pest, PHPUnit, or Jest. I also usually commit them to a code repository - but not all automated tests should be committed. I wrote what I consider to be an automated test that was a "single-use test". It served its purpose and it will forever be in my heart, but not in my repository.

Fast database queries are not always better

You probably think fast database queries are good. You also probably think slow database queries are bad. On top of all of these "thinks" you have about database queries - there is a certain Laravel method that, if you have seen it, you probably think you understand…but there is a chance you don’t.