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Notes from the work.

Posts on Laravel, PHP and backend engineering — mostly what I learned shipping open-source fixes to the packages Laravel teams depend on. Each one links back to the original on LinkedIn.

22 January 2026The backend myth: “devs just write APIs”The common myth is that backend developers just write APIs and the system magically works. What actually keeps an app alive under load is everything around that.BackendSoftware engineeringScalability
11 January 2026A Livewire fix of mine merged into coreMy PR fixing component discovery when livewire.view_path is customized was merged into Livewire core — a case many teams hit when organising views in modular structures.LaravelLivewireOpen sourcePHP
30 December 2025Laravel API Kit: no frontend, no noiseLaravel API Kit is how a modern, API-first Laravel backend should start — no frontend, no noise, just APIs done right.LaravelAPIBackend
3 December 2025Shipping Bangla locale fixes in Carbon v3.11.0My contribution aligning the Bangla (bn) locale with the English reference strings shipped in Carbon v3.11.0 — one of the most widely used PHP date and time libraries.PHPCarbonOpen sourceLocalization
14 November 2025Safeguards for Spatie's Laravel Media LibraryEarly failure checks for unreadable files, container-resolved media observers, and a FileDoesNotExist exception — shipped in laravel-medialibrary v11.17.3.LaravelSpatieOpen sourcePHP
14 November 2025Cutting container resolution calls in Laravel PermissionA performance enhancement reducing unnecessary container resolution calls in spatie/laravel-permission, shipped in v6.23.0 — it matters most at scale.LaravelSpatiePerformanceOpen source
6 November 2025Fixing a TOCTOU race in Laravel PermissionA time-of-check to time-of-use race condition in permission loading, which bites in concurrent runtimes like Octane, Swoole and RoadRunner. Shipped in v6.22.0.LaravelConcurrencyOpen sourcePHP