christlieb.eu

June 24, 2026

Tables in Lattice: columns in PHP, rows from anywhere

Part 4 of Building Lattice — declare columns in PHP and let Lattice handle sorting, filtering and pagination, backed by a data source that doesn't have to be Eloquent.

June 21, 2026

Forms in Lattice: fields you choose, not columns you inherit

Part 3 of Building Lattice — a form is fields you declare and a handle() you write, validated live with Precognition and never bound to a model's columns.

June 18, 2026

How Lattice turns PHP into React: the server-driven contract

Part 2 of Building Lattice — the contract underneath it all: PHP serializes a typed tree of nodes, and one React component renders it through a registry.

June 15, 2026

Introducing Lattice: server-driven React for Laravel, without the coupling

My new side project — describe pages, forms and tables once in PHP and render them as real React over Inertia, decoupled from the data model.

June 15, 2026

Rebuilding christlieb.eu with Astro: from a Laravel app to a static site

Why I moved my personal site off Laravel and Filament to a static Astro build on GitHub Pages — and the migration details worth knowing.

March 27, 2026

How I Host christlieb.eu with Docker, Coolify, and GitHub

A walkthrough of how I deploy christlieb.eu — a Laravel app running on FrankenPHP, managed by Coolify on a Hetzner VPS. Multi-stage Dockerfile, three Docker Compose services, and a deployment workflow that stays out of the way.

December 28, 2024

Reviving My Blog: A Fresh Start with Modern Tech

Why I rebuilt my blog with modern tooling — moving off Laravel Nova to Filament and a streamlined Hetzner + Coolify hosting setup.

July 1, 2024

Connect Laravel to Lokalise the right way

Learn how to manage your Laravel translations the right way if you are using lokalise.

May 6, 2022

Automate build and push to ECR via GitHub Actions

Build a minimal multi-stage PHP Dockerfile and automate building and pushing the images to Amazon ECR with a GitHub Actions workflow.

February 10, 2020

Build Docker images for production

a brief introduction how we handle Docker images for production and how this fundamentally differs to our development images. Our example will be a simple Laravel application.