Articles

All the articles I've posted.

• Building a Reusable AI Chat Component with the Laravel AI SDK and Livewire Streaming

  24 Mar, 2026

  How we built one generic Livewire chat component that works with any AI agent — streaming responses, MCP tool support, and per-team security boundaries — using the Laravel AI SDK.

• Pulse vs Filament vs Nova: Choosing the Right Laravel Admin Panel

  23 Mar, 2026

  Two days after removing Laravel Pulse, I reinstalled it to build an admin dashboard for Growth Method. Here's how I chose Pulse over Filament and Nova, built four custom cards, and fixed a nasty serialization bug in Laravel 13.

• An Introduction to the Laravel Scheduler

  23 Mar, 2026

  How the Laravel Scheduler works, the three automated tasks we run at Growth Method, whether a per-minute cron job is wasteful, and the production safeguards every app should use.

• Do You Actually Need a Super Admin?

  23 Mar, 2026

  I spent two years with an is_admin flag in my users table before asking whether I needed it at all. Here's the decision framework that led to removing it entirely.