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
Filament v4: The Complete Guide from Zero to Production Dashboard
The end-to-end Filament v4 walkthrough: install the panel, ship resources, relation managers, custom actions, schemas, MFA, multi-tenancy, policies, tests, and a real production deploy — in one place.
Tailwind v4 Container Queries — Component-First Responsive Design Without Plugins
The same card looks broken in a sidebar and great in a hero. Container queries fix it — and Tailwind v4 ships them out of the box, no plugin required.
Tailwind CSS v4 Dark Mode in Laravel — CSS-First with @custom-variant
Tailwind v4 killed tailwind.config.js. This walkthrough wires class-based dark mode end-to-end — @custom-variant in app.css, @theme tokens, an Alpine toggle, and a tiny inline script that kills the white flash on first paint.