Deep-dive engineering education for PHP, Laravel, APIs, Go, and TypeScript.
Learn to build high-performance APIs, design strict monolithic boundaries, write custom static analysis rule engines, and compile type-safe frontend consumers. No tracking pixels, no marketing fluff.
Structured Learning Tracks
API & Laravel Architecture
Ship production-ready, highly resilient Laravel APIs. Build and deploy JSON:API compliant backends with standardized schemas, form request DTOs, and robust error shapes that handle real production load.
Go Tooling & Systems
Build and compile blazing-fast developer tools. Create concurrent CLI checkers, parallel compilers, and custom AST engines to automate security audits across massive codebases.
TypeScript & Frontend
Eliminate API integration bugs forever. Automatically generate and compile strict, fully type-safe TypeScript clients directly from your Laravel backend resource formats.
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Featured Series
All Series →Building Software in the AI Era
Master the tools, habits, and operating models needed to ship high-quality software in a day-to-day workflow shaped by LLMs, moving past outdated sprints and velocity metrics.
Engineering Management
Scale your engineering organization and build a high-performing team culture. Learn modern leadership frameworks for managing remote engineers, technical debt, and team coaching.
Deep-Dive Guides & Ebooks
All Guides →Bulk updates via async jobs
Move heavy bulk operations out of the request/response cycle with job resources. Enqueue work, return quickly, let clients poll for status.
Cursor-based pagination for stable lists
Use opaque cursors instead of numeric offsets for more stable pagination over changing data like feeds, logs, or events.
Featured Articles
All Articles →Fibers Plus the Polling API: What Async PHP Actually Looks Like Now
Fibers give PHP concurrency. The Polling API gives it native epoll and kqueue. Here's how to build on both, with honest benchmarks.
The Polling API Is the Most Underrated RFC PHP Has Shipped in Years
The Polling API gives PHP 8.6 native epoll and kqueue at last. Here's why the RFC nobody discussed is the most consequential in years.
Latest Media & Open Source
Stop Building CRUD APIs (do this instead)
Join Steve and Tessa as they walk through Tabstack's latest DX launch: a CLI for quick automation and scripting, an MCP server that gives your AI assistant direct access to Tabstack, a skill for your
Explore specific implementations?
All code samples from my books, API starter kits (with strict ULID schemas and RFC 9457 errors), and Go AST parser scripts are open source.