Development notes on Laravel, VueJS and building for the web

Longer technical pieces about the work itself — how something was built, why one approach won over another, and the details worth writing down afterwards. The travel and personal writing lives in the Blog.

Shared Composer Vendors: beating the inode limit on shared hosting

11 min read

Why I wrote shared-composer-vendors: one copy of each Composer package for every project on the account, so shared hosting stays under its inode limit.

Why I moved my website from WordPress to Statamic

7 min read

After five years on WordPress, why I rebuilt this site on Statamic: custom fields, caching and one control panel built in, and styling that works like any Laravel app.

Laravel Glide Helper: on-the-fly image optimization in Blade

8 min read

Why I wrote a glide() helper for Laravel Blade: images resized and converted to WebP on the fly, for stock photos and client uploads alike.