Articles
Notes, lessons, and practical things I learn about software development.
2026
Same Record, Different Instance: A Subtle Eloquent Bug
A subtle Eloquent bug where the same database record is represented by different model instances with different in-memory state.
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Things I Learned Using Meilisearch with Laravel Scout
Practical lessons from using Meilisearch with Laravel Scout, from filtering Eloquent queries to keeping related model data in sync.
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Turning Database Refreshes Into One Boring Command
How a repetitive and unreliable database refresh workflow led me to build dbpull, a simple CLI for syncing remote databases to local with one command.
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Be Careful with array_merge() and Numeric Keys in PHP
array_merge() reindexes numeric keys, which can silently break associative arrays that use IDs as keys.
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