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Field notes on Laravel, PostgreSQL, Rust and the unglamorous work of keeping production healthy. RSS

Rust 2026

Learning Rust as a Senior PHP Developer

Seven years of PHP taught me to ship fast. Rust taught me why my programs spend their lives waiting. Notes from six months of building real tools in a language that fights back.

Sep 16, 2026 8 min read Read

Laravel 2026

Taming N+1 Queries in Large Laravel Codebases

N+1 queries don't announce themselves — they accumulate one innocent-looking loop at a time. A systematic approach to finding them, fixing them and keeping them out.

Aug 28, 2026 7 min read Read

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Learning Rust as a Senior PHP Developer

Taming N+1 Queries in Large Laravel Codebases

Notes from the trenches