Engineering,
taught
&
leadership,
practised.
I'm Steven — CTO at Digitonic, a PHP engineer since 2010 and a keen golfer with a terrible handicap. This is where I write it all down.
…and a few friends I can't name.
Latest from the journal
Generate and Store Images with the Laravel AI SDK
The AI SDK docs lead with text, so most people reach for a raw HTTP client to generate images. There's a first-class API for it — here's how I wire it up.
Manage Laravel AI SDK Prompts as Versioned Blade Templates
Heredoc prompts buried in service classes cannot be diffed, reviewed or rolled back. Here is how I move them into versioned Blade templates that CI can catch.
Skip Re-Rendering Livewire 4 Actions with #[Renderless]
An analytics ping shouldn't re-render your component and ship a DOM diff. Livewire's render phase is opt-out — here are the three ways to skip it, and when skipping it silently breaks your UI.