Reviving this blog wasn’t just about dusting off old posts—it meant embracing modern tools like Filament, ditching Laravel Nova, and moving to a sleek Hetzner + Coolify hosting setup. With a fresh start and a streamlined backend, I’m back to share insights, tips, and the occasional rant with consistency.

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

In this article we will build a minimal PHP application consisting of two containers which are declared in a single multi stage Dockerfile. Then we will leverage a GitHub Actions workflow to automate building the Docker images and pushing them to ECR

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.

In this article we will configure dnsmasq and traefik to act as a reverse proxy on our development machine. This way we are able to use custom .test domains in all of our docker projects.