#engineering

10 posts

• Sep 04, 2026

  The zone that stops inviting

  A dropzone with a file already in it kept saying "Drag a file here". Nothing threw, no test went red, and the screen was lying.

• Sep 03, 2026

  The library that came out of an app

  For three days @akira-io/ui shipped on npm and answered Semana anterior to people who had never asked for Portuguese. That is what extraction costs.

• Sep 01, 2026

  Break your own code before the release does

  I rewrote eleven props to ignore their values and the test suite stayed green. Everything I trusted after that had to earn it.

• Sep 01, 2026

  Laravel SISP 2.1 separates the buyer from the customer

  A checkout has two identities: the person who pays and the entity the invoice belongs to. Version 2.1 stops collapsing them into one.

• Aug 31, 2026

  Laravel SISP 2.0 shipped almost no features

  The 2.0 release changed 126 files and added little a user can see. It spent the whole budget on extension points instead.

• Jun 04, 2026

  Laravel SISP 0.7 makes checkout state visible

  The 0.7 release turns Laravel SISP from a payment redirect helper into checkout infrastructure with memory.

• May 28, 2026

  Unified Dev 0.12.0 ships the seam, not the integrations

  Linear and Jira landed in the same release. That is the boring half. The interesting half is the decision underneath them.

• May 24, 2026

  Laravel SISP 0.6.4 makes payment states explicit

  0.6.4 folds two small releases into one cleanup of pending payments, signed retries, totals, refunds, and metadata.

• May 18, 2026

  I built onyx to learn, not to compete

  Same module surface in Go and Rust. paths, files, shell, clipboard, notify, keyring. Two crates that exist because I wrote them.

• May 17, 2026

  Spectra, day one

  I bootstrapped Spectra on a Thursday morning. By midnight it was reading real Laravel routes. The first commit that mattered was not the one that mattered.