Technology

Technology isn’t making us stupid. But the way we’re using it might be.The real problem isn’t innovation itself. It’s the quiet shift from using technology to r...

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari is one of those books that sneaks up on you. It starts comfortably, tracing how humans have always organized themselves around inform...

I see a lot of engineers, including myself, let an idea run loose and balloon until we don't even want to work on it anymore. We start optimizing for multi...

I’ve got a pretty dialed-in Notion system where I track daily metrics and roll them up by week, month, and year. It’s definitely a nerdy habit, but honestly, I...

No-code tools have opened up a whole new way to build. You can stitch together an MVP in a weekend, test a concept with real users, and move fast without writin...

As I fired up the blog machine again—upgrading Laravel from 9 to 12 and Statamic from 4 to 5—it didn’t take long to hit some pretty big bumps. Turns out, a quic...

Apple introduced the Apple Vision Pro last week to some mixed reviews. But it reminded me of all the other products they’ve introduced over the years that redef...

Its been a really busy week, so I didn’t get to finish my follow up on staying organized. I promise to publish that one soon.I recently wrote about AI and how I...

There is a lot of talk about how AI is going to disrupt many industries, and that's true. However, what I'm seeing is companies wanting to hand over a...

I work at a large company with many teams, departments, and even sub-properties under the company umbrella. When working on large software projects, it's i...

Something that has been helping me reduce my screen time is limiting the number of notifications that reach my screen. After auditing my notification settings,...

A journey of taking control of all the emails, notifications and personal data leakage that has happened over the year, I have been trying to unsubscribe from a...

IntroductionIn October 2022 wanting to rapidly produce some new reports I felt constrained by the code I had mindlessly wrote over the last couple of years. So...

I know, not the most original title to a blog. Google has started to roll out a new way to track people across the web, even if you’re not using the immensely p...

Whats your favorite app on your phone to use daily? Is it because of the design, or the way yo get the information?I think about this frequently, how the design...

Early in my career I had trouble focusing on building my skill set in a single area. I wanted to do everything. I wanted to design the best looking, trendiest g...

I have been thinking a lot about privacy in technology. Then I watched Social Dilemma and made me think we are in a little more of a hole than I originally thou...

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a tutorial how to install Tailwind on Laravel. This will be the base of where we add dark mode support to our website.Dark Mode?Like...

In 2019 I gave a talk about code reviews to the Chicago PHP group. At the time, a part of my job was to facilitate code reviews for my teams and teach good prac...

Almost any time I spin up a new laravel app, I also install tailwind to enable me to move fast with my views. What is Tailwindcss?Tailwind is a utility-first CS...

Every year Stack Overflow conducts a developer survey to get the pulse of their community. The questions range from technologies, salary, school and more. Over...

Recently working on a project where I wanted to have our customers digitally sign a contract, but wanting to confirm the name they input matches the name in the...

Working on some new functionality for an app, I wanted to allow the account admin to create a new user. But by creating a user you need to include a password to...

I have recently been working on an application in Laravel that was using a basic cURL request to grab some information about a url and display that to the users...

This post is part of a study I did during a client presentation at an digital marketing company I worked at in the early 2010s.With cyber threats, cyber terrori...

Over the course of the last couple months, I’ve noticed a huge problem with all my Wordpress sites. They keep crashing! It just didn’t make sense, the css, html...